Profile:

RYUTA NAKAJIMA (1971- )

Lives and Works in Duluth, Minnesota USA

EDUCATION:

Sep.1990 - Dec.1994 University of California, San Diego

Major in Visual Arts, Bachelor of Arts, awarded Dec. 1994

Sep.1995 - Dec.1997 University of California, San Diego

Master of Fine Arts Program, Visual Arts Department

M.F.A., awarded Dec. 1997

 

Apr.1999 - Mar. 2000 Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music

Post-Master Independent Research Program

Aug. 1999 Studied Shingon Mikkyo Buddhism at Senryu-Temple, Fukushima, Japan

Certified Shingon Mikkyo monk. (Assistant head-priest at Zuiouji temple.)

Aug. 2005 Higher Education in Shingon Mikkyo Studies. Hase Temple, Nara Japan

Aug. 2006 Higher Education in Shingon Mikkyo Studies. Hase Temple, Nara Japan.

Master of Esoteric Buddhism awarded Nov. 2006

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Aug. 2005 - Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing

Art and Design Department, University of Minnesota, Duluth

April 2005 Assistant to Kerry Sharbakka, UN founded underwater Photographic

Project. Honolulu Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, HI

Aug. 2002 - July. 2005 Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing

Department of Art and Art History, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Sep. 2000 - Jun. 2002 Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing

Art Department, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Mar. 2001- Mar. 2002 Advisor to “Pora Foundation International Fellowship”

San Diego, Los Angeles and Minneapolis

Mar. - Apr. 2001 Assistant Director/Director of Photography of Jean Pierre Gorin’s

  video project, “Letter to Chris” Hiroshima, Japan

 

Feb. 2000 Visiting Artist at Kansas City Art Institute Kansas City, MO

Apr. 1999 - Jul. 2000 Art Translator at Musashino Art University, Tokyo

Nov. 1998 Visiting Artist at Kansas City Art Institute,

Jul. 1997 Assistant to Niki de Saint-Phalle, La Jolla, CA

Sep. 1995 - Jun. 1997 Teaching Assistant

Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego

RECOGNITIONS, HONORS & DISTINCTIONS:

Dec. 2006 Tweed Museum Purchase by museum patron Beverly Goldfine fund.

SFA Society of Prometheans.

Apr. 2004 Centerfold design for “TINFISH” journal vol.14,

TINFISH press, Honolulu, HI

Dec. 2002 Permanent Installation Commission

Zuioji Temple, Tokyo, Japan

Aug. 1998 Honorable Portrait Commission

Hyosuke Kujiraoka, Vice-Chairman, Japanese House of Representatives

“Parches Award” Japanese House of Representatives, Tokyo Japan

July. 1997 Third place winner of Athenaeum Annual Juried Exhibition,

Athenaeum Gallery, La Jolla, CA

May. 1997 A Book Cover Design Commission

Hent de Vries and Samuel Weber

“Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination”

Stanford University Press, CA

Dec. 1996 Russell Foundation Research Grant

University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Sep. 1996 Fall Research Grant

University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Sep. 1995 Two-year scholarship to MFA Program

University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Mar. 1994 US Grant (Undergraduate Research Grant)

University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Jan. 1991 Winner of “UNESCO” United Nations Postal Stamp Design Contest,

Geneva, Switzerland.

Group Exhibition:

2007Mar. “Male Art”

Curated by Wayne Potraz and Lynn Gray

The Quarter Gallery, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, MN

“Faculty Art Show”

Tweed Museum, Duluth, MN

Feb. “painterspainting”

Curated by Val Jenkins

College of Visual Arts Gallery, Minneapolis MN

2006Jun. “Bicycle Film Festival: Joy Ride”

Curated by Brendt Barbur, Director, Bicycle Film Festival.

O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Festival Sponsor: Rapha, Anthem, Cool hunting Video, Timbuk2, etc.

Nov “Bicycle Film Festival: Joy Ride”

Curated by Brendt Barbur (Director of Bicycle Film Festival,)

Madsaki (artist) and Ryuta Nakajima

Studio Bee, Tokyo Japan

Festival Sponsor: Puma, Agnes B, The North Face, MTV Japan, Studio Jibri, etc.

“Decentralizing the Center P-Factory World Tour #4.”

Sub Octo Space, Philadelphia, PA

2005Jan. “Derrida and Deconstruction”

Curated by Francisco Gurrero

Kinsey Gallery, Seattle WA

Feb. “Faculty Art Exhibition”

University of Hawaii, Manoa Art Gallery, Honolulu,HI

Apr. “Yoshitomo Nara- Nothing Ever Happens”

Collaboration Project “Shaka Nara”

Honolulu Contemporary Art Museum. HI

“I Can’t Live If Living is Without You: Celebrity Death 2004-2005”

Curated by Jacob Lunderby

Space 603. Minneapolis, MN

“Contempo”

Neiman Marcus Honolulu, HI

Co-Produced by Honolulu Contemporary Art Museum

May. “Decentralizing the Center P-Factory World Tour #2”

39 Hotel Gallery, HI

Sep. “Decentralizing the Center P-Factory World Tour #3”

Sponsor: Kansas City Urban Cultural Project. Kansas City, MO

Nov. “Bicycle Film Festival: The Art Show”

Curated by Brendt Barbour (director of Bicycle Film Festival) and

Michael Martin (Photographer/director)

Red Ink Studio, San Francisco, CA

2004Feb.“Faculty Art Exhibition”

University of Hawaii, Manoa Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI

May. “TAZ 690”

University of Hawaii Manoa Art and Art History Department, Honolulu, HI

Organizer: Gene Ray and Ryuta Nakajima

July. “Artists of Hawaii”

Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI

Juror: Janet Koplos, Senior Editor Art in America

“P-Factory World Tour 2004”

Tetra Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan

Sep. “White Show”

Mikorp Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Curated by Michael Martin, Photographer

“The Best Show”

University of Hawaii Manoa, Commons Gallery, Honolulu, HI

Organized by Ryuta Nakajima

 

Dec. “HAWAI’I”

Curated by Michael Rooks, Curator, Honolulu Contemporary Art Museum

Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL

2003Feb.“Normal: normal?”

The Dirt Gallery, Kansas City, MO

July. “NON-Poli Osaka”

Sumiso Gallery, Osaka, Japan

Curated by Asata Matsumura

2002Aug.“normal.life”

SPICA Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Sep. “NORAML.life@OSAKA”

Studio J, Osaka, Japan

Sep. “NORMAL-synergistic age”

Izutsuya, Hiroshima, Japan

Sep. “NORMAL@FUKUOKA”

Co-operative Studio Warehouse No.3, Fukuoka, Japan

2000Jan“Nairan-kai, T.N.U.F.M.”

National Tokyo University of Art and Music

Toride, Japan

Nov. “All Systems Go”

University of Minnesota Duluth

Tweed Museum, Duluth, MN

1999JulyGallery Center Point, Tokyo, Japan

1997 Jan. “Annual Juried Exhibition”

Athenaeum Gallery, La Jolla, CA

(Regional/Juried)

1996 Jan “Unknown”

Multi-Media Installation by Michael Martin and Ryuta Nakajima

University of California, San Diego

Graduate Gallery, La Jolla, CA

Aug. Virus Gallery, San Diego, CA

1995Oct. “New Works II by Peter Eversoll, Debbie Lee and Ryuta Nakajima”

University of California, San Diego

Annex Gallery, La Jolla, CA

1994May. “New Works by Peter Eversoll, Debbie Lee and Ryuta Nakajima”

University of California, San Diego

Annex Gallery, La Jolla, CA

individual:

2005Jan “Ryuta Nakajima Works”

Kuykendall Gallery, Honolulu, HI

Feb. “Ryuta Nakajima: Recent Paintings”

39hotelstreet Gallery, Honolulu, HI

2002Dec. “Nehan”

Zuioji Temple, Tokyo

2001Mar. “Serge Master 2000”

Catharine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

Apr. “6.5 inch/30cm”

St. Paul Gallery, St. Paul, MN

July. “Nanjing Light”

South La Brea Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1999Mar.“Ryuta Nakajima* Works 1996-1999)

Gallery Center Point, Tokyo Japan

1998Nov. “Stain +”

Dirt Gallery, Kansas City, MO

1997May.“Stain”

University of California, San Diego

Graduate Gallery, La Jolla, CA

July. “Ryuta Nakajima: Recent Work”

Quint Gallery, San Diego CA

1996Oct. “Rainbow’s Egg”

University of California, San Diego

Graduate Gallery, La Jolla, CA

Curated Exhibition:

2005Jan-Dec.“Border Line”

Gallery 721, Honolulu, HI

2004Jan - May.“Works by Baba, Kaneshiro and Wasson”

Gallery 721, Honolulu, HI

Sep-Dec. "I am nothing without you”

Gallery 721, Honolulu, HI