AYA NAKAMURA
anakamura@gmail.com / (215) 284-8952 / @ayasembe
Born in Tokyo, Japan
Lives and works in Chicago, IL
EDUCATION
2013 MFA, Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2011 Post-Baccalaureate, Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2004 BA, Fine Arts and Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 Wayfaring, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2019 Relatum, Relata, MPSTN, Fox River Grove, IL
2019 Slow Trace, Rainbo Club, Chicago, IL
2017 Memory Material, Final Resting Place, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 NADA New York, Pier 36 299 South Street, New York, NY 2021 In Good Company, Monira Foundation, Chicago, IL 2020 NADA Chicago, Stanley Brown Jewelist, Chicago, IL 2019 Mana Decentralized, Mana New Jersey, Jersey City, NJ 2018 Bibliothēca, Roman Susan, Chicago, IL 2018 Tyrants, Final Resting Place, Chicago, IL 2017 The New Normal, Supa Salon, Istanbul, Turkey / The Hangar and Dawawine, Beirut, Lebanon
2017 En/Counter, Hybrid Salon, Chicago, IL
2015 Art from Excess, Marshall J. Gardner Center for the Arts, Gary, IN 2015 A*HAUL: Part Duh, in conjunction with 2nd Floor Rear, Chicago, IL 2014 In Medias Res, Biblio Exhibitions, Lyons, IL
2014 Scrap Heap II, Tusk, Chicago, IL
2014 A*HAUL, in conjunction with 2nd Floor Rear, Chicago, IL
2013 Eye Sense, The Chandelier Room, Chicago, IL
2013 Graduate MFA Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
2011 Graduate MFA Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
RESIDENCIES
2020-Present Fresh Press, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 2022 Chop Wood, Carry Water, Pachamanka, NW IL
2021 Facebook Open Arts, Chicago, IL
2019 Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD 2012 Art Farm, Marquette, NE
AWARDS
2019 Denbo Fellowship, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
2013 George and Ann Siegel Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 “Strange Confederations: A Review of Aya Nakamura at Western Exhibitions and Megan Greene at Regards” by Alan Pocaro, Chicago Reader
GROUPS
2020-Present Chicago API (Asian, Pacific Islander) Artists United (CAAU)