Fujiko Nakaya

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Fog installation, Bilbao

Fujiko Nakaya ( Japanese 中 谷 芙 二 子 , Nakaya Fujiko; born May 15, 1933 in Sapporo ) is a Japanese sculptor and installation artist.

life and work

Nakaya Fujiko graduated from Northwestern University (Illinois, USA) in 1957 . After her return to Japan in 1962 she had a solo exhibition in a gallery in Tōkyō, where she showed oil paintings. In 1966 she joined the artist group EAT around Robert Rauschenberg . In 1970 she showed a "sculpture made of (artificial) fog" for the first time at the Ōsaka World Exhibition in the Pepsi Pavilion.

Nakaya first became known for her numerous fog installations. But then she tried to bring people together with nature in general through her installations. She was also influenced by her father, the experimental physicist Nakaya Ukichirō (中 谷 宇 吉 郎; 1900–1962), who had succeeded in producing artificial snow crystals for the first time in the world. From the 1970s onwards, Nakaya Fujiko also dealt with socially critical issues. Her first video was dedicated to Minamata disease . In 2017 she showed fog installations at the Tate Gallery of Modern Art in London, worked on projects in Japan, America and the Netherlands and had a comprehensive exhibition at the Mito Art Museum (水 戸 芸 術 館) from October 2018 to January 2019.

In 2018 Nakaya received the Praemium Imperiale prize in the field of sculpture. She is one of the few Japanese award winners, including all prize areas, such as Tadao Andō , Akira Kurosawa , Kenzō Tange , Seiji Ozawa or Mitsuko Uchida .

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