NAGAOKA Kazumi

Born in Okayama, Japan. Nagaoka Kazumi has been creating terracotta sculptures since around 2000.

Recent Solo Exhibitions

2025  Echo / Sankoa, Tamano, Okayama
　　　　Days / tsugumi, Suginami, Tokyo
2024  A Small Box in the Forest / Eight-Legged Wolf, Musashino, Tokyo
　　　　Its Form / Gallery Camellia, Chuo, Tokyo
2022  Receding and Approaching / Sankoa, Tamano, Okayama
　　　　Moment by Moment / Galleria Tokino-Shizuku, Setagaya, Tokyo
2021  Inconclusive Days / Kyobunkan Ein Karem Gallery, Chuo, Tokyo
2020  Absent-Minded / art space ruriro, Kawagoe, Saitama

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024–2025  Captured Light with Scrap Pinhole Cameras / Chofu Cultural Center, Tokyo
2023  International Ceramic Sculpture Symposium "LAB ORO 2023" / Polish Sculpture Center, Poland
2020  Moon Viewing Exhibition / qibao.gallery, China
2017  Kanazawa World Craft Triennale 2017 / 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2012  Daikokuya Contemporary Art Competition / Tochigi
2009–2010  Art Now: Okayama (traveling exhibition), Okayama
2007  Resonating Art / Kurashiki City Art Museum, Okayama

Workshops

IDEA R LAB & Material Library, Kurashiki
Daida Kindergarten, Tokyo
Sugimura Jun Museum of Art, Shiogama
and others

Commissions / Publications

2019–2025  Commemorative works, Ohara Museum of Art
2020  Publications documenting works and installations
2018  Book cover and illustrations for Katsumi Hirano, Keywords to Understand Sermons
2019  Relief installations, Daida Kindergarten, Tokyo (13 works)
2006  Installation, Okayama Saiseikai Hospital