1918 Born in Marugame City, Kagawa Prefecture Nakagawa is the only avant-garde artist born in the postwar period to create ikebana without belonging to any particular school, and is highly regarded both domestically and internationally. In recent years, he has also established a reputation as a photographer. He has also demonstrated his unique talents in calligraphy, glass, and writing. 1978 “The World's Most Beautiful Books International Competition,” Leipzig Cartier Museum of Contemporary Art Nakagawa Yukio: A Collection of Works (Nakagawa Yukio, private edition, 1955)NAKAGAWA Yukio
Awards
1999 “Oribe Prize Grand Prix,” Gifu, Japan
1999 Marugame City Cultural Merit Award
2004 “The 11th Japan Contemporary Art Promotion Award,” Japan Arts and Culture Foundation
2004 “The 20th Higashikawa Prize for Domestic Artists,” Awarded Collections
The Museum of Modern Art, Kanagawa
Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Japan Books
Hana: Works of Yukio Nakagawa (Yukio Nakagawa, Kyoryudo, 1977)
Bakeru Honoo (Yukio Nakagawa and Kazuhiko Miwa, Saitoan, 1989)
Hana of Yukio Nakagawa (Yukio Nakagawa, Kyoryudo, 1989)
Hana no Osore (Yukio Nakagawa and Naoyuki Murakami, Seibundo Shinkosha, 1992)
Hana ga Narasu (Yukio Nakagawa, Gallery Muyu, 1993)
Ma no Yama: Works of Yukio Nakagawa (Yukio Nakagawa, Kyoryudo, 2003)