Noriko Nakamura
Born 1986, Japan
Education
2020 – 2024: Master of Visual Arts – La Trobe University, Bendigo AUS
2011 – 2012: Bachelor of Fine Art, Honours – Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne AUS
2008 – 2010: Bachelor of Fine Art – Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne AUS
2006 – 2007: Fine Art Foundation – Byam Shaw School of Art in Central Saint Martins College, London UK
Solo Exhibitions
2023: In the beginning was Chaos, Composite, Collingwood Yard
2019: The force that the warrior adopts during the evolution of the pale pink rose, Caves, Melbourne VIC
2017: Erosion, Gertrude Glasshouse, Collingwood VIC
Harvest, Daine Singer, Melbourne VIC
2016: Motherland, Sutton Projects, Fitzroy VIC
2015: Staring down my hands, West Space, Melbourne VIC
2014: I have to walk home the long way to avoid seeing the ghost, TCB art inc., Melbourne VIC
2013: Sing a song of a map when a little bird told me macaroni, Tarpspace, Cairns QID
2012: In search of where tigers are melting as butter… , Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy VIC
Liquid Rock, Platform artists group inc., Melbourne VIC
2011: STONE SOUP, rearview gallery, Collingwood VIC
Bedrock, North west project, Corburg VIC
Vapour, Bus Projects, Melbourne city VIC
2010: Ritual Garden, C3 Contemporary Art Space, The Abbotsford convent VIC
Selected group exhibitions
2024: Melbourne Sculpture Biennale: The Burden of Object, the Villa Alba Museum, curated by Adam Stone and Laura Couttie Kew VIC
Hans Bellmer x Noriko Nakamura, Peon Parc, Brunswick VIC
Conversations in Space, Deakin University Art Gallery
2023: Maternal inheritances, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo VIC
Caves Suite, Spring 1883, The Hotel Windsor Melbourne VIC
2022: wHole, Heide Museum, Bulleen VIC
Mother’s Milk, MILK ARI, Collingwood VIC
A Thousand Different Angles, McClelland Sculpture Park +Gallery, Langwarrin VIC
21x 10, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Arts West Melbourne University, VIC
Charmed, Caspa Gallery, Castlemaine VIC
2021: Choose Happiness, curated by Serena Bentley, Murray Art Museum, Albury NSW
Inside Mountains, Caves gallery as a part of Spring1883 Melbourne VIC
Yamanashi Short Film Festival, Kofu Yamanashi, Japan
2020: Spring/Sprung, two person exhibition with Inbal Nissim, Caves Gallery, Melbourne
2019: Ode to Marion, Incinerator Gallery, Aberfeldie VIC
2018: Floor Plan, C3 Contemporary Art Space, The Abbotsford convent VIC
2017: Princesse de Broglie, Caves, Melbourne VIC
Gertrude Studios 2017, Gertrude contemporary, Melbourne VIC
‘9×5’, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne VIC
2016: Your work in my dreams, Bus Projects, Melbourne VIC, Duo exhibition with Gilad Ratman who was represented in the Israel Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2013, Curated by Madé Spencer-Castle
Gertrude Studios 2016, Gertrude contemporary, Melbourne VIC
Cabal, Aperto, Montpellier France, TCB art inc. exchange exhibition
2015: From the Collection: Gertrude Contemporary Regional Residencies, Warrnambool
Art Gallery, Curated by Emily Cormack, Warrnambool VIC
2014: Interrupted Expenditure, RM gallery, Auckland New Zealand
Kofu Art Festival, Yamanashi Japan
Tarp West Space, West Space, Melbourne VIC
One hundred Sleepers, Kings ARI, Melbourne VIC
Thin Air, Slopes, Melbourne VIC
2013: Brimming Dissolution, Buoyant Expenditure, Dog Park Art Project Space, Christchurch New Zealand
Singular Plural, BUS projects, Melbourne VIC
What Has(Has not), TCB art inc., Melbourne VIC
Future Now, Cowwarr Art Space, Gippsland VIC (regional Victoria Tour)
Future Now, B1 Contemporary Art Space, Ballarat (regional Victoria Tour)
2012: Future Now, Substation, Newport VIC, ICU, Castlemaine VIC (regional Victoria Tour)
Ménage à Trois, XYZ Collective, Tokyo Japan
2011: Group 04, Murray White room, Melbourne VIC
Mainly Everything, TCB art inc., Melbourne VIC
Consultancy, NGV studio, Melbourne VIC
Award, Residencies
2023: Artist-in-residence education program at Monash University Museum of Art
2020: Constant Ecology, two months home residency program organised by BLINDSIDE, CAVES, KINGS Artist-Run and West Space
Sustaining Creative Worker Initiative Grant, Regional Arts Victoria
Quick Response Arts Grants, City of Melbourne
2019: Artist in residency at AIRY, Yamanashi Japan
2017: Maddocks Art Prize (VIC)
Australian Council Arts Projects program funds
2016-2018: Gertrude Contemporary studio
2015: Artist in residency at Youkobo Art Apace, Tokyo Japan
2013: The Sainsbury Sculpture Grant
2012: Australian Council ArtStart
Selected Professional Experiences
2021- present: Mentor in the Visual Arts Program at Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School
2024: Education program for Methodist Ladies’ College organised by Monash University Museum of Art
2022: Sessional Lecturer in the Painting department at Victorian College of the Arts
Limestone carving workshop as a part of 21x 10 exhibition facilitated by Ian Potter Museum of Art
2020: Online Dogu clay figure making workshop facilitated by Monash University Museum of Art
2018: Sessional Lecturer in the Painting department at Victorian College of the Arts
Guest lecture for Art Forum at Bendigo Campus, La Trobe University
Guest lecture for the Departed Acts at Australian Center for Contemporary Art
Limestone carving workshop at Gertrude Contemporary
2017: Sessional Lecturer in the Painting department at Victorian College of the Arts
Teaching associate in Fine Arts, Faculty of Art Design and Architecture at Monash University
Gertrude Contemporary Board Member, Studio representative
Members Art Class at National Gallery of Victoria
Limestone workshop at Melbourne University
Limestone workshop at Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School
2016: Contemporary Art on the Road; Professional Development workshop at Latrobe
Regional Gallery organised by Gertrude Contemporary
Artist in Residence at Fitzory Primary School; 7 weeks limestone carving workshop with grade 5 and 6 students organised by Gertrude Contemporary
Guest lecture for Professional Practice at Victoria University
FAST program artist Talk conducted by CCP
2015: Art Kids, workshop for local primary school students, Yukoko art space Tokyo Japan
2011-2015: TCB art inc Board member
Publications/ Media / Reviews
James Lynch, Conversations in Space exhibition catalogue, 2024, Deakin University Art Gallery
Amelia Wallin, Maternal inheritances exhibition essay, La Trobe Art Institute, 2023
Melissa Keys, wHole exhibition catalogue, 2022, Heide Museum, Bulleen VIC
Amelia Winata, Review on Spring/Sprung, Memo Review, 18 July 2020
Amelia Wallin, Review on The force that the warrior adopts during the evolution of the pale pink rose, Artlink, 11 July 2019, https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/4772/noriko-nakamura-the-force-that-the-warrior-adopts-/
Fayen d’Evie, Mother-Hooded, 2019, exhibition essay
Jaqueline Hanlin, Erosion exhibition essay, 2017
Georgina Criddle, Your work in my dreams exhibition essay, 2016
Brooke Babington, I have to walk home the long way to avoid seeing the ghost exhibition essay, 2014
Ménage a Trois, TCB art inc., XYZ Collective and Enjoy Gallery, exhibition catalogue, 2013