nca | nichido contemporary art

1985
Born in Tottori, Japan

2012
BFA, Painting, Nagoya University of Art, Aichi, Japan

2014
MFA, Contemporary Art, Nagoya University of Art, Aichi, Japan

Currently lives and works in Aichi, Japan

【 SOLO Exhibition 】

2025
Phantasmagoria: Changing Scenery, Matsuzakaya Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
2024
IN BLOOM, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
2020
Spring ephemeral, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Symbiosis, galerie nichido Taipei, Taipei
2017
Kazuya Sakamoto – Landscape gardening -, Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori
2016
Between Breaths, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo
2012
ALA Project No9 Kazuya Sakamoto, ART LAB AICHI, Aichi
2010
a ripple, hinten, Aichi

【 Group Exhibition 】

2025
Minebane, Taguchi Art Collection, Akita Museum of Art, Japan
LIFE: Living in this World, Tottori Prefectural Musuem of Art
2024
Summer Show at Galerie Nichido Karuizawa, Galerie Nichido, Nagano, Japan
2023
◯△×□, CENTER/EDO, Tokyo, Japan
Natural Compositions, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
2022
Young Okazaki vol.2, MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan
2021
Abstraction by CADAN, ISETAN ART GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
SITES UNSEEN – An endless call to life from the center -, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
Next World – Taguchi Art Collection x Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan
SMALL., nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
2020
Routes to Roots, galerie nichido Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2019
SMALL WORKS: an endless journey, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
2017
Identity XIII – Je t’aime… moi non plus – A love journey through art – curated by Daisuke Miyatsu -, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
2015
nca new generation project – Sensing Body, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo
Fruitfulness – Contemporary Art in Toyokawa, Toyokawa City Sakuragaoka Museum, Aichi
Arts Challenge 2015, Aichi Arts Center, Aichi
2014
Some Like It Witty, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
2013
session, Art&Design center, Aichi
OPEN STUDio, artist run space i/o, Aichi
2012
Mitsudo Ⅲ, ART LAB AICHI, Aichi
TOKYO WONDER SEED 2012, Tokyo wonder site sibuya, Tokyo

1985
Born in Tottori, Japan

2012
BFA, Painting, Nagoya University of Art, Aichi, Japan

2014
MFA, Contemporary Art, Nagoya University of Art, Aichi, Japan

Currently lives and works in Aichi, Japan

【 SOLO Exhibition 】

2025
Phantasmagoria: Changing Scenery, Matsuzakaya Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
2024
IN BLOOM, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
2020
Spring ephemeral, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Symbiosis, galerie nichido Taipei, Taipei
2017
Kazuya Sakamoto – Landscape gardening -, Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori
2016
Between Breaths, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo
2012
ALA Project No9 Kazuya Sakamoto, ART LAB AICHI, Aichi
2010
a ripple, hinten, Aichi

【 Group Exhibition 】

2025
Minebane, Taguchi Art Collection, Akita Museum of Art, Japan
LIFE: Living in this World, Tottori Prefectural Musuem of Art
2024
Summer Show at Galerie Nichido Karuizawa, Galerie Nichido, Nagano, Japan
2023
◯△×□, CENTER/EDO, Tokyo, Japan
Natural Compositions, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
2022
Young Okazaki vol.2, MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan
2021
Abstraction by CADAN, ISETAN ART GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
SITES UNSEEN – An endless call to life from the center -, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
Next World – Taguchi Art Collection x Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan
SMALL., nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
2020
Routes to Roots, galerie nichido Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2019
SMALL WORKS: an endless journey, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
2017
Identity XIII – Je t’aime… moi non plus – A love journey through art – curated by Daisuke Miyatsu -, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
2015
nca new generation project – Sensing Body, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo
Fruitfulness – Contemporary Art in Toyokawa, Toyokawa City Sakuragaoka Museum, Aichi
Arts Challenge 2015, Aichi Arts Center, Aichi
2014
Some Like It Witty, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
2013
session, Art&Design center, Aichi
OPEN STUDio, artist run space i/o, Aichi
2012
Mitsudo Ⅲ, ART LAB AICHI, Aichi
TOKYO WONDER SEED 2012, Tokyo wonder site sibuya, Tokyo

b. 1985, Hsinchu, Taiwan; lives and works in Taipei.
2012
M.F.A. Program, Department of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Art

【 SOLO Exhibition 】

2024
2024 The Carpet, Shigaraki Ceramic Culture Park, Shiga, Japan
2023
SERPENT, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2022
Earthworms, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
2020
Sand Land, Nhcue Art Space, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Silent and Still, TKG+ Projects, Taipei, Taiwan
2019
Monochrome, Zou-no-hana Terrace, Yokohama, Japan
2018
THE HIDING SONG, apartment der kunst, Munich, Germany
PALUDES, nca | nichido contemporay art, Tokyo, Japan
2016
NOVEMBER,Hsin-An, HOWL Space, Tainan, Taiwan
L’OISEAU BLEU, Galleria. H, Taipei, Taiwan
SUMMER FLOWERS, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2014
SHORT FICTION, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2013
GUANG-WU, MOT/ARTS, Taipei, Taiwan
2011
NEPTUNE, MOT/ARTS, Taipei, Taiwan

【 Group Exhibition 】

2023
Chemistry: The Beauty of Encounters, Shibunkaku Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
Matsu biennale, Matsu, Taiwan

2022
Taiwan Art Biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
EMOTIONAL ASIA – Miyatsu Daisuke Collection x Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

2021
Interpreting Screening II – The Mysterious Land, Hong Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
An Uncharted World, MoCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Yuguang Island Art Festival, Tainan, Taiwan
SMALL., nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan

2020
YOU ARE ME, Hsinchu City Museum, Hsinchu, Taiwan

2019
Time Resides, Solid Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Island Tales: Taiwan and Australia | Taipei←→Perth, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Time Resides, Solid Art, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Painting from Taiwan, Eli Klein Gallery, New York, USA
Nothing but Time～Romantic Route 3 – Art Festival, Taiwan
Synchronicity – Daisuke Miyatsu collection x Kasama Nichido Museum of Art -Blending the quintessence of modern and contemporary art -, Nichido Kasama Museum of Art, Kasama, Japan
SMALL WORKS: an endless journey, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan

2018
Metahistory, TKG+ Projects, Taipei, Taiwan
Su Wong Shen with His Young Friends, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Exchanging Views, Crane Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
LADY DIOR AS SEEN BY, Art Basel Hong Kong-Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
Here & There-2018 Treasure Hill Light Festival, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
CHAOS, SILVERLENS x MindSetArtCenter, Manila, Philippines
Art Fair Tokyo 2018 nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
The Private Times: Beitou Local Image Collecting Project -II”, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Taiwan Lantern Festival, Chiayi, Taiwan

【 Award 】

2012
The 1st LIHPAO Sculpture Artist Award, Selected, Lihpao Cultural Art Foundation,
Taipei, Taiwan
2011
Outstanding Art Prize, KdMoFA, Taipei, Taiwan
2010
Chinese Art Awards 2010, Selected, Societe Generale,
Beijing/Shanghai/Hong Kong/Taipei/Paris
The 3rd Taipei International Modern Ink Painting Biennial, NTUT, Taipei, Taiwan
2009
S-An Aesthetics Awards, S-An Cultural Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
2008
The 12th Yulon Innovation Woodcarving Awards, Yulon Wood Sculpture
Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

b. 1985, Hsinchu, Taiwan; lives and works in Taipei.
2012
M.F.A. Program, Department of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Art

【 SOLO Exhibition 】

2024
2024 The Carpet, Shigaraki Ceramic Culture Park, Shiga, Japan
2023
SERPENT, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2022
Earthworms, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
2020
Sand Land, Nhcue Art Space, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Silent and Still, TKG+ Projects, Taipei, Taiwan
2019
Monochrome, Zou-no-hana Terrace, Yokohama, Japan
2018
THE HIDING SONG, apartment der kunst, Munich, Germany
PALUDES, nca | nichido contemporay art, Tokyo, Japan
2016
NOVEMBER,Hsin-An, HOWL Space, Tainan, Taiwan
L’OISEAU BLEU, Galleria. H, Taipei, Taiwan
SUMMER FLOWERS, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2014
SHORT FICTION, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2013
GUANG-WU, MOT/ARTS, Taipei, Taiwan
2011
NEPTUNE, MOT/ARTS, Taipei, Taiwan

【 Group Exhibition 】

2023
Chemistry: The Beauty of Encounters, Shibunkaku Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
Matsu biennale, Matsu, Taiwan

2022
Taiwan Art Biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
EMOTIONAL ASIA – Miyatsu Daisuke Collection x Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

2021
Interpreting Screening II – The Mysterious Land, Hong Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
An Uncharted World, MoCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Yuguang Island Art Festival, Tainan, Taiwan
SMALL., nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan

2020
YOU ARE ME, Hsinchu City Museum, Hsinchu, Taiwan

2019
Time Resides, Solid Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Island Tales: Taiwan and Australia | Taipei←→Perth, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Time Resides, Solid Art, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Painting from Taiwan, Eli Klein Gallery, New York, USA
Nothing but Time～Romantic Route 3 – Art Festival, Taiwan
Synchronicity – Daisuke Miyatsu collection x Kasama Nichido Museum of Art -Blending the quintessence of modern and contemporary art -, Nichido Kasama Museum of Art, Kasama, Japan
SMALL WORKS: an endless journey, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan

2018
Metahistory, TKG+ Projects, Taipei, Taiwan
Su Wong Shen with His Young Friends, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Exchanging Views, Crane Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
LADY DIOR AS SEEN BY, Art Basel Hong Kong-Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
Here & There-2018 Treasure Hill Light Festival, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
CHAOS, SILVERLENS x MindSetArtCenter, Manila, Philippines
Art Fair Tokyo 2018 nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
The Private Times: Beitou Local Image Collecting Project -II”, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Taiwan Lantern Festival, Chiayi, Taiwan

【 Award 】

2012
The 1st LIHPAO Sculpture Artist Award, Selected, Lihpao Cultural Art Foundation,
Taipei, Taiwan
2011
Outstanding Art Prize, KdMoFA, Taipei, Taiwan
2010
Chinese Art Awards 2010, Selected, Societe Generale,
Beijing/Shanghai/Hong Kong/Taipei/Paris
The 3rd Taipei International Modern Ink Painting Biennial, NTUT, Taipei, Taiwan
2009
S-An Aesthetics Awards, S-An Cultural Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
2008
The 12th Yulon Innovation Woodcarving Awards, Yulon Wood Sculpture
Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Busui Ajaw (b. 1986, Mae Suai, Thailand) is a self-taught painter who creates works that draw from her everyday experiences as a woman in the contemporary world as well as her roots as an Akha ethnic minority. Since she began drawing at age 15, she has developed an expressive painterly language to communicate both the seen and unseen as well as the material and the psychological.

Born in a remote mountainous region of Myanmar, the artist was forced to flee as a young child with her family after a military invasion of their land. Her practice relates to her unique upbringing. The artist is an Akha, a nomadic ethnic group from the highlands of mainland Southeast Asia, and is from a family of artisans. Coming from an oral culture, the practice of image-making was initially foreign to her. She recently began to incorporate wooden sculpture into her visual language as well as working with installations. Busui exhibits widely in Chiang Rai and Bangkok. She lives and works in Chiang Rai, Thailand

【 SOLO Exhibition 】

2023
Mother: Amamata, nca | nichido contemporary art、Tokyo, Japan
2022
Mother of the World / BANK- MABSOCIETY ,Shanghai, China

【 Group Exhibition 】

Group Exhibitions

2025
13th Berlin Biennale – passing the fugitive on -, Berlin, Germany

2024
Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, Thailand
Earth, Wind, and Fire: Visions of the Future from Asia, Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Ancestors, MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand

2023
Thailand Biennale Chiang Rai 2023, Chiang Rai, Thailand

2021
small, nca | nichido contemporary art、Tokyo, Japan

2020
Hysteria, Toot Yung Art Center, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Once upon a future, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
Once upon a future, nca | galerie nichido Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Every step in the right direction, Singapore Biennale, Singapore
Elevations Laos, Laos

Busui Ajaw (b. 1986, Mae Suai, Thailand) is a self-taught painter who creates works that draw from her everyday experiences as a woman in the contemporary world as well as her roots as an Akha ethnic minority. Since she began drawing at age 15, she has developed an expressive painterly language to communicate both the seen and unseen as well as the material and the psychological.

Born in a remote mountainous region of Myanmar, the artist was forced to flee as a young child with her family after a military invasion of their land. Her practice relates to her unique upbringing. The artist is an Akha, a nomadic ethnic group from the highlands of mainland Southeast Asia, and is from a family of artisans. Coming from an oral culture, the practice of image-making was initially foreign to her. She recently began to incorporate wooden sculpture into her visual language as well as working with installations. Busui exhibits widely in Chiang Rai and Bangkok. She lives and works in Chiang Rai, Thailand

【 SOLO Exhibition 】

2023
Mother: Amamata, nca | nichido contemporary art、Tokyo, Japan
2022
Mother of the World / BANK- MABSOCIETY ,Shanghai, China

【 Group Exhibition 】

Group Exhibitions

2025
13th Berlin Biennale – passing the fugitive on -, Berlin, Germany

2024
Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, Thailand
Earth, Wind, and Fire: Visions of the Future from Asia, Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Ancestors, MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand

2023
Thailand Biennale Chiang Rai 2023, Chiang Rai, Thailand

2021
small, nca | nichido contemporary art、Tokyo, Japan

2020
Hysteria, Toot Yung Art Center, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Once upon a future, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
Once upon a future, nca | galerie nichido Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Every step in the right direction, Singapore Biennale, Singapore
Elevations Laos, Laos

【 SOLO Exhibition 】

2025
UZU, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
Mattress Factory Contemporary Art Museum, Pittsburgh, USA
2024
There Is Another Captial Beneath the Wave, with Chia Wei Hsu and Hsien Yu Cheng,
Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Little Hell, Each Modern Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2023
UZU, Taiwan Creative Content Agency(TAICCA), Taipei, Taiwan
There Is Another Captial Beneath the Wave, with Chia Wei Hsu and Hsien Yu Cheng,
Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM], Yamaguchi, Japan
BODO, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2022
Remains for Those Remain, Yiri Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
She and You and Her, Project Fulfill, Taipei, Taiwan
2021
SOAP, Museum of National Taipei University of Education(MoNTUE), Taipei Taiwan
IF, New Taipei Gallery, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2020
Taipei Robot Man 2.0: Infodemic, with Dino and Hsien Yu Cheng, the Cube Project Space, Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei Robot Man, Treasure Hill, Taipei, Taiwan
2019
Kosmos, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2018
Machines Under the Similitude of Men, Yiri Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2017
Kosmos, Embassy of Brazil, London, UK
Gongye Chang Could Understand Birds, Noblesse Collection, Seoul, South Korea
2016
P’eng’s Journey to the Southern Darkness: Asia House, London, UK
North Indies—Pilot: Christine Park Gallery, London, UK
The Colosseum, Art Central, Central Harbour Front, Hong Kong
Second Life: Habitat, Hong’s Foundation, dual show with Hsien Yu Cheng, Taipei, Taiwan
2015
Clockwork Dreams, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA), Manchester, UK
Whence Do You Know the Happiness of Fish? Kunst Kraft Werk, Leipzig, Germany
2014
Por Ahora: Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh, UK

【 Group Exhibition 】

2024
Oodaaq Festival, La Parcheminerier, Rennes, France
Proyector – Festival de Videoarte, Museo de Fotografia de Huete, Cuenca, Spain
When the Monster is Speaking, Inside-Out Museum, Beijing, China
Taiwan Technology x Culture Expo 2024, The Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
What Can We Do to Deserve Aliens’ Attention?”, Ha.aH art space, Barcelona, Spain
Tokyo Art Week, NCA Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2023
Anyang Public Art Project, APAP7, Anyang, South Korea
Imagration, Gallery Common, Tokyo, Japan
Telling A Story With You Part 2, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Festival AVIFF 2023, Variétés cinema, Marseille, France
Festival Proyector, White Lab, Madrid, Spain
Verbo Monstra de Porformance Arte, Galleria Vermelho, Sao Paulo, Brazil
PERFORMING TIME – In Vivo/Ex Situ/In Situ, NULL (U+2205), Lisbon, Portugal
I Am Another You, You Are Another Me, ArtIstanbul Feshane, Istanbul, Turkey
Time Flies Over Us But Leaves Its Shadow Behind, Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, Tokyo, Japan
2022
Jeju Biennale, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju City, South Korea
Storyteller, NCA Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Time Flies Over Us But Leaves Its Shadow Behind, Power Station of Art (PSA), Shanghai,
China
Adaptor, MoCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Bucharest International Dance Film Festival, Cinema Elvire Popesco, Romania
Busan International Video Art Festival, Busan, South Korea
PERFORMING TIME – In Vivo/Ex Situ/In Situ, Flora Chang DTLA, Los Angeles, USA
2021
Green Routes, NCA Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Future Media Festival, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), Taipei, Taiwan
Herbal Urbanism Hsinchu, Hsinchu City Museum, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2020
Taipei Art Awards, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2019
City Flip-Flop, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), Taipei, Taiwan
Earth Without

【 Award 】

2023 Hertzog Da Silva Award, 1st prize, Madrid, Spain
Festival AVIFF 2023, sélection officielle, Maselie, France
2022 Busan International Video Art Festival, final shortlist, Busan, South Korea
The Lumen Prize, Immersive Environment Award, final shortlist, London, UK
Bucharest International Dance Film Festival, official selection, Bucharest, Romania
2021 The 19th Taishin Arts Award, Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 Taipei Art Awards, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 COCA Prize, final shortlist, Center of Contemporary Artists, Barcelona-Rome-Grottaglie
2017 Wellcome Collection Seed Award in Humanities and Social Science, London, UK
EWAAC Art Award, 1st category prize, London, UK
Japan Media Art Festival, jury selections, Tokyo, Japan
2016 RISE Award, Art Central, Hong Kong
8th Art Award, Independent Contemporary Art Advisors ICAA, Munich, Germany
VIA Arts Award, Embassy of Brazil London, London, UK
2015 Gilbert Bayes Award, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London, UK
2014 Creative Initiative Award, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, winner, Edinburgh, UK
2011 Open Call 2011: Surface gallery, first prize, Nottingham, UK
Salon Art Prize: Matt Roberts Arts Project Space, final shortlist, London, UK