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中島友太

Yuta Nakajima

中島友太

アーティスト/アートディレクター/映像作家。エンライトメント所属。ヒロ杉山に師事。
映画や古本、アニメ、AI生成画像などをサンプリングし、デジタル上で再構成したイメージを油彩画としてキャンバスに転写する。デジタルとアナログの間に生じる摩擦から、時空の歪みのような新たな心象風景を描く。

アートディレクター/グラフィックデザイナーとして、ロゴ、広告、ブランディング、パッケージ、本、Web、舞台ポスター、テキスタイル、CDジャケットなどを手掛ける。映像作家としてもアーティストPVや舞台映像、VJ、アートギャラリーでの映像展示など、ジャンルを越えて活動。

【主な個展】
2023「CERTIFIER」X8 GALLERY(東京)
2023「TRANSFER」YUGEN Gallery(東京)
2025「100+Y」chignitta(大阪)

【主なグループ展】
tagboat Art Fair(2023–2024)、100+ Asia Art Season(Buji Culture and Sports Center 中国深圳)、WAVE(JAPAN HOUSE ロンドン、Lurf MUSEUM 東京)、UNLABELED(アート解放区 人形町)ほか

【受賞】
2021 UNKNOWN ASIA 徳光健治審査員賞
2024 100+ Asia Art Season Best 10 Award/ubies庄野裕晃審査員賞

【映像・舞台】
2020年以降、舞台・音楽イベント・ギャラリーで多数発表。

Artist / Art Director / Filmmaker, member of ENLIGHTENMENT
Studied under artist Hiro Sugiyama.

Drawing inspiration from films, vintage books, anime, and AI-generated imagery found online, the artist samples and digitally manipulates these materials, combining them into collage-like compositions. These are then transposed into oil paintings on canvas — one of the most fundamental analog media — translating digital data into a different physical realm. Through this process, friction arises between the digital and the analog, creating new psychological landscapes that evoke distortions of time and space.

As an art director and graphic designer, the artist works across a wide range of media, including logo and branding design, advertising, packaging, book design, websites, posters for television and stage productions, textiles for fashion brands, and CD jackets. As a filmmaker, the artist produces music videos, stage and theater visuals, and performs as a VJ in music events and collaborations with contemporary dancers. Their activities extend fluidly and borderlessly across art galleries and various creative fields.

Exhibition History
Solo Exhibitions

2023 “CERTIFIER” — X8 GALLERY (Tokyo)

2023 “TRANSFER” — YUGEN Gallery (Tokyo)

2025 “100+Y” — chignitta (Osaka)

Group Exhibitions

2023 “tagboat Art Fair 2023” — Tokyo Port City Takeshiba (Tokyo)

2023 “WAVE” — JAPAN HOUSE (London)

2023 “Art Fair GINZA tagboat × MITSUKOSHI” — Ginza Mitsukoshi (Tokyo)

2023 “HILLS ZINE MARKET 2023” — Roppongi Hills A/D Gallery (Tokyo)

2023 “UNFAMILIAR IMAGES” — Empathy Gallery (Tokyo)

2023 “WAVE 2023–24” — Lurf MUSEUM (Tokyo)

2024 “tagboat Art Fair 2024” — Tokyo Port City Takeshiba (Tokyo)

2024 “synchronicity” — tagboat (Tokyo)

2024 “Rotten Donuts” — Ōhashi Kaikan (Tokyo)

2024 “HILLS ART & ZINE MARKET 2024” — Roppongi Hills A/D Gallery (Tokyo)

2024 “100+ Asia Art Season” — Buji Culture and Sports Center (Shenzhen, China)

2025 “WAVE 2025” — Lurf Gallery (Tokyo)

2025 “Rotten Donuts at BEAMS JAPAN” — TOKYO CULTUART by BEAMS (Tokyo)

2025 “Mononoke ART CIRCUS” — Shinsaibashi PARCO (Osaka)

2025 “Rotten Donuts at Komehyo” — KOMEHYO SHIBUYA (Tokyo)

2025 “HILLS ZINE MARKET 2025” — Roppongi Hills A/D Gallery (Tokyo)

2025 “UNLABELED” — Art Liberation District Ningyōchō (Tokyo)

Awards

2021 “UNKNOWN ASIA 2021” — Kenji Tokumitsu Jury Prize

2024 “100+ Asia Art Season” — Best 10 Award / ubies Hiroaki Shōno Jury Prize

Selected Film / Video Works & Performances

2020 Stage production “Ship: Long-term Creation Project” — space EDGE (Tokyo)

2021 Stage production “To an artist” — Suginami Kōkaidō Small Hall (Tokyo)

2022 Stage production “FOOTPRINTS vol.40” — Double Tall Art & Espresso Bar (Tokyo)

2023 Group exhibition “films. Trample the Border” — Feb gallery Tokyo (Tokyo)

2023 Stage production “Yokosuka no salo” — Iijima Shōten (Kanagawa)

2024 Event “GIGGING Video vs Sound” — Zero Gravity Session (Tokyo)

2024 Stage production “Roll, Roll, Roll 02 [Vol.14] ‘Drink & Roll’” — Roll (Tokyo)

2024 Event “Super LuvLEE night” — Zouk Tokyo (Tokyo)

2024 Stage production “Existence Op.1–14” — Tenshikan (Tokyo)

2024 Event “-Strings- vol.3” — PUBLIC HOUSE DOUGE (Tokyo)