Goo Nakayama
Calligrapher
Born in Iki Island, Nagasaki Prefecture in 1975. He attend a calligraphy class from the second grade of elementary school to the graduation of junior high school. At the age of 40, he was impressed by the free and dynamic expression of calligrapher Yuichi Inoue, and began to search for his own free expression method using ink and paper. He spent more than a year working on works like hieroglyphs with the motif of "birds". The number of works exceeded 1000, and gradually the theme of the subject was diverse. Eventually it became his character. While looking at the work that appeared in front of me, I thought about the ancient people who created the characters long ago, learned about the oracle bone script and grammatology that are the origin of Chinese characters, and learned about my own expression. We are always deepening our flexible consideration. Birds, moons, flowers, ALIVE, PAIN, stars, nothing ... Little by little, I continue to increase my own "characters" that spring up from my roots.
Solo exhibition
2016
Solo Exhibition "TORI 2016" (Ikuhisa Koganemaru Memorial Hall, Nagasaki)
2017
Solo Exhibition "Flowers 2017" (IAF SHOP ・ Fukuoka)
2018
solo exhibition "No 2018" (former Yame-gun government office, Fukuoka)
2019
solo exhibition "envy 2019" (Ikuhisa Koganemaru Memorial Hall, Nagasaki)
Group exhibition / art fair
2017
8th Tensakukai Exhibition "Liberation of Calligraphy" dedicated to Yuichi Inoue (Mitaka City Arts Center, Tokyo)
Public production of the book "Fortunate phase x TORI and the moon" (Omuta Shin-Ginza Shopping Street Arcade • Fukuoka)
Group exhibition "\ GUSH! /" (Osaka Prefectural Enokojima Cultural Arts Creation Center, Osaka)
2018
ART SHODO TOKYO SPRING 2018 (Mitaka City Arts Center, Tokyo)
Group exhibition "OSAKA SHODO SHOW 2018" (ORGANIC SPACE, Osaka)
Video work "Origins"
Video Justine Emard Book Guunakayama music Keiichiro Shibuya (Ikoku Museum Koganemaru Ikuhisa Memorial Hall, Nagasaki)
ART SHODO TOKYO AUTUMN 2018 (Mitaka City Arts Center, Tokyo)
ART SHODO NOW "New Development of Calligraphy" (Gallery NOW, Toyama)
2019
ART SHODO AWARD -Curations- (O Museum, Tokyo)
ART SHODO FESTA 2019 (Mitaka City Arts Center, Tokyo)
Group exhibition "OSAKA SHODO SHOW 2019" (ORGANIC SPACE, Osaka)
ART SHODO NEXT 17 (Mitaka City Arts Center, Tokyo)
9th Tensakukai Exhibition "Liberation of Calligraphy" dedicated to Yuichi Inoue (Mitaka City Arts Center, Tokyo)
2020
ART SHODO FESTA 2020 (Mitaka City Arts Center, Tokyo)
Group exhibition "Busan: Point of View-" (F1963, Busan, South Korea)
Group exhibition "OSAKA SHODO SHOW 2020" (Seaside Studio CASO, Osaka)
Group Exhibition "118th Sumijin Exhibition" (Kyoto City Museum of Art Annex, Kyoto)
2021
Aspects of Characters (Gallery NAO MASAKI)
Signs and Humanity" (Gallery CONTAINER, Iwataya, Fukuoka)
Kyushu New Art" (Hakata Hankyu)
NANGERLAND: The Mysterious Empire' (art space tetra)
2022
Too much new calligraphy exhibition (MDP GALLERY KAMAKURA, Kamakura).
"ART SHODO: Calligraphy as an evolving artistic movement."(Gallery NOW, Toyama)
ART SHODO Hankyu #2 (Hakata Hankyu)
2023
'ART SHODO EDGE' (GALLERY SCENA)
Art Fair Tokyo 2023
"ODD2023" (Gallery NAO MASAKI, Aichi)
Art Fair Asia Fukuoka 2023
"Calligraphy strayed from the beaten track"(ICHION CONTEMPORARY)
2024
ART SHODO COLLECTIVE (S BRICK, Kobe)
<Video works>
2018 video work `` Origins''
Video Justine Emard Book Guunakayama music Keiichiro Shibuya (Ikuhisa Koganemaru Memorial Hall, Nagasaki)
Award
2019 ART SHODO AWARD (sponsored by ART SHODO TOKYO)
