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Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1986, Nami Yokoyama completed postgraduate studies in oil painting and printing at Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts. Her still life paintings deal with seemingly trivial motifs that exist quietly in everyday life, such as chicken bones, used telephone cards, or empty toilet paper rolls. However, on the surface of her work there lingers a certain sadness or strangeness.

Major exhibitions include “Over Again” (KENJI TAKI GALLERY, Tokyo, 2016), “Sky Over II” (Art Lab Aichi, Nagoya, 2016), “The 19th Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art” (Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, 2016), “VOCA 2015: New Perspectives on Contemporary Art” (Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, 2015), and “Reaching for the Real” (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2014). She was awarded the Encouragement Prize at the 8th Kinutani Koji Award (2016).

In 2019, she conducted research on the history of painting in France, England, and Italy through a program supported by AIT and the Backers Foundation.

RESEARCH
Date of visit: 2019 (France, UK, Italy)
Supported by : The Backers Foundation (Japan)