RYUTA NAKAJIMA (1971- )
Lives and Works in Duluth, Minnesota USA
EDUCATION:
Sep.1990 - Dec.1994 University of California, San Diego
Major in Visual Arts, Bachelor of Arts, awarded Dec. 1994
Sep.1995 - Dec.1997 University of California, San Diego
Master of Fine Arts Program, Visual Arts Department
M.F.A., awarded Dec. 1997
Apr.1999 - Mar. 2000 Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
Post-Master Independent Research Program.
Aug. 2006 Higher Education in Shingon Mikkyo Studies. Hase Temple, Nara Japan.
Master of Esoteric Buddhism awarded Nov. 2006
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Aug. 2005 - Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing
Department of Art and Design, University of Minnesota, Duluth
April 2005 Assistant to Kerry Sharbakka, UN founded underwater Photographic
Project. Honolulu Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, HI
Aug. 2002 - July. 2005 Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing
Department of Art and Art History, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Sep. 2000 - Jun. 2002 Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing
Art Department, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Mar. 2001- Mar. 2002 Advisor to “Pora Foundation International Fellowship”
San Diego, Los Angeles and Minneapolis
Mar. - Apr. 2001 Assistant Director/Director of Photography of Jean Pierre Gorin’s
video project, “Letter to Chris” Hiroshima, Japan
Feb. 2000 Visiting Artist at Kansas City Art Institute Kansas City, MO
Apr. 1999 - Jul. 2000 Art Translator at Musashino Art University, Tokyo
Nov. 1998 Visiting Artist at Kansas City Art Institute,
Jul. 1997 Assistant to Niki de Saint-Phalle, La Jolla, CA
RECOGNITIONS, HONORS & DISTINCTIONS:
Dec. 2006 Tweed Museum Purchase by museum patron Beverly Goldfine fund.
SFA Society of Prometheans.
Apr. 2004 Centerfold design for “TINFISH” journal vol.14,
TINFISH press, Honolulu, HI
Dec. 2002 Permanent Installation Commission
Zuioji Temple, Tokyo, Japan
Aug. 1998 Honorable Portrait Commission
Hyosuke Kujiraoka, Vice-Chairman, Japanese House of Representatives
“Parches Award” Japanese House of Representatives, Tokyo Japan
July. 1997 Third place winner of Athenaeum Annual Juried Exhibition,
Athenaeum Gallery, La Jolla, CA
May. 1997 A Book Cover Design Commission
Hent de Vries and Samuel Weber
“Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination”
Stanford University Press, CA
Dec. 1996 Russell Foundation Research Grant
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Jan. 1991 Winner of “UNESCO” United Nations Postal Stamp Design Contest,
Geneva, Switzerland.
Group Exhibition:
2007Mar.“Male Art”
Curated by Wayne Potraz and Lynn Gray
The Quarter Gallery, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, MN
“Faculty Art Show”
Tweed Museum, Duluth, MN
Feb. “painterspainting”
Curated by Val Jenkins
College of Visual Arts Gallery, Minneapolis MN
2006Jun. “Bicycle Film Festival: Joy Ride”
Curated by Brendt Barbur, Director, Bicycle Film Festival.
O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Festival Sponsor: Rapha, Anthem, Cool hunting Video, Timbuk2, etc.
Nov “Bicycle Film Festival: Joy Ride”
Curated by Brendt Barbur (Director of Bicycle Film Festival,)
Madsaki (artist) and Ryuta Nakajima
Studio Bee, Tokyo Japan
Festival Sponsor: Puma, Agnes B, The North Face, MTV Japan, Studio Jibri, etc.
“Decentralizing the Center P-Factory World Tour #4.”
Sub Octo Space, Philadelphia, PA
2005Jan. “Derrida and Deconstruction”
Curated by Francisco Gurrero
Kinsey Gallery, Seattle WA
Feb. “Faculty Art Exhibition”
University of Hawaii, Manoa Art Gallery, Honolulu,HI
Apr. “Yoshitomo Nara- Nothing Ever Happens”
Collaboration Project “Shaka Nara”
Honolulu Contemporary Art Museum. HI
“I Can’t Live If Living is Without You: Celebrity Death 2004-2005”
Curated by Jacob Lunderby
Space 603. Minneapolis, MN
“Contempo”
Neiman Marcus Honolulu, HI
Co-Produced by Honolulu Contemporary Art Museum
May. “Decentralizing the Center P-Factory World Tour #2”
39 Hotel Gallery, HI
Sep. “Decentralizing the Center P-Factory World Tour #3”
Sponsor: Kansas City Urban Cultural Project. Kansas City, MO
Nov. “Bicycle Film Festival: The Art Show”
Curated by Brendt Barbour (director of Bicycle Film Festival) and
Michael Martin (Photographer/director)
Red Ink Studio, San Francisco, CA
2004Feb.“Faculty Art Exhibition”
University of Hawaii, Manoa Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI
May. “TAZ 690”
University of Hawaii Manoa Art and Art History Department, Honolulu, HI
Organizer: Gene Ray and Ryuta Nakajima
July. “Artists of Hawaii”
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
Juror: Janet Koplos, Senior Editor Art in America
“P-Factory World Tour 2004”
Tetra Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
Sep. “White Show”
Mikorp Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Curated by Michael Martin, Photographer
“The Best Show”
University of Hawaii Manoa, Commons Gallery, Honolulu, HI
Organized by Ryuta Nakajima
Dec. “HAWAI’I”
Curated by Michael Rooks, Curator, Honolulu Contemporary Art Museum
Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003Feb.“Normal: normal?”
The Dirt Gallery, Kansas City, MO
July. “NON-Poli Osaka”
Sumiso Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Curated by Asata Matsumura
2002Aug.“normal.life”
SPICA Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Sep. “NORAML.life@OSAKA”
Studio J, Osaka, Japan
Sep. “NORMAL-synergistic age”
Izutsuya, Hiroshima, Japan
Sep. “NORMAL@FUKUOKA”
Co-operative Studio Warehouse No.3, Fukuoka, Japan
2000Jan“Nairan-kai, T.N.U.F.M.”
National Tokyo University of Art and Music
Toride, Japan
Nov. “All Systems Go”
University of Minnesota Duluth
Tweed Museum, Duluth, MN
1999JulyGallery Center Point, Tokyo, Japan
1997 Jan. “Annual Juried Exhibition”
Athenaeum Gallery, La Jolla, CA
(Regional/Juried)
1996 Jan “Unknown”
Multi-Media Installation by Michael Martin and Ryuta Nakajima
University of California, San Diego
Graduate Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Aug. Virus Gallery, San Diego, CA
1995Oct. “New Works II by Peter Eversoll, Debbie Lee and Ryuta Nakajima”
University of California, San Diego
Annex Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1994May. “New Works by Peter Eversoll, Debbie Lee and Ryuta Nakajima”
University of California, San Diego
Annex Gallery, La Jolla, CA
individual:
2005Jan “Ryuta Nakajima Works”
Kuykendall Gallery, Honolulu, HI
Feb. “Ryuta Nakajima: Recent Paintings”
39hotelstreet Gallery, Honolulu, HI
2002Dec. “Nehan”
Zuioji Temple, Tokyo
2001Mar. “Serge Master 2000”
Catharine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Apr. “6.5 inch/30cm”
St. Paul Gallery, St. Paul, MN
July. “Nanjing Light”
South La Brea Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999Mar.“Ryuta Nakajima* Works 1996-1999)
Gallery Center Point, Tokyo Japan
1998Nov. “Stain +”
Dirt Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1997May.“Stain”
University of California, San Diego
Graduate Gallery, La Jolla, CA
July. “Ryuta Nakajima: Recent Work”
Quint Gallery, San Diego CA
1996Oct. “Rainbow’s Egg”
University of California, San Diego
Graduate Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Curated Exhibition:
2005Jan-Dec.“Border Line”
Gallery 721, Honolulu, HI
2004Jan - May.“Works by Baba, Kaneshiro and Wasson”
Gallery 721, Honolulu, HI
Sep-Dec. "I am nothing without you”
Gallery 721, Honolulu, HI
