Yasuo Nomura is a conceptual artist based in New York, born in Shimane, Japan.

Black and white portrait of Yasuo Nomura — Photo by Shotoku Koh

He earned his BA in oil painting at Musashino Art University in 2004. In 2018, Nomura won a grant from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs to stay in New York and has been living and working here since then. In 2021, He was offered a three-year production support grant from the Vilcek Foundation to develop his project-based work.

In 2015, he participated in a residency program at the Kavli IPMU, where he interacted with researchers in a variety of fields, leading him to develop his unique art activities targeting higher dimensions and to advocate "Dimensionism."
PION, the work that symbolizes this concept, is providing superimposes the individuality of the self and others and proposes a new form of world peace in the space age through the perception of a third co-creation identity in the boundary between them. But, at the same time, since the experience on earth has a strong bias toward the up and down direction due to gravity, then Nomura start to aim at outer space (pure three-dimensional space) as a place where its true value can be demonstrated.

Now, a project is underway to gather "PION UNITED," a group of people from all over the world who will work together to realize the dream of actually building "PION Satellite," the first art satellite to be experienced in space in human history.

Timeline

1979: Born in Shimane, Japan
2004: B.A., Oil Painting Course, Musashino Art University

Solo Exhibition

2022: "Me to Me" hpgrp GALLERY TOKYO (Tokyo, Japan)
2020: ”Dimensionism 2.0 2.0” NOWHERE (New York, USA)
2017: “Dimensionism” hpgrp GALLERY TOKYO (Tokyo, Japan)
2016: “Here and There” hpgrp GALLERY New York (New York, USA)
2015: “Complex plane” HAGISO (Tokyo, Japan)
2015: “Topological Landscape” hpgrp GALLERY TOKYO (Tokyo, Japan)
2014: “Paradigm Equinox” Shinjuku Ophthalmologist Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2014: “Forest of Prime” momurag (Kyoto, Japan)
2014: “Re: Vitruvian Man” H.P.FRANCE WINDOW GALLERY (Tokyo, Japan)
2012: “ecosphere” IOSSELLIANI T-02-10S (Tokyo, Japan)
2012: “Social Eclipse” Shinjuku Ophthalmologist Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2011: “WASTE STYLE" mograg garage (Tokyo, Japan)
2008: “Story of the Pion/TIME" mograg garage (Tokyo, Japan)
2007: “Story of the Pion/1080 Kleshas” Tobo temple (Shimane, Japan)

Group Exhibition

2022: "HIRAKAWA Norimichi・NOMURA Yasuo Given Universe | Days of Wonder" Iwami Art Museum (Shimane, Japan)
2022: "2022 Annual Art Members Exhibition" J-Collabo (New York, USA)
2022: "Eight Japanese Artists" NOWHERE (New York, USA)
2020: ”Geometry×Art” Iwami Art Museum (Shimane, Japan)
2018: “Megane to tabisuru bijutsuten (To travel with glasses)” Aomori Museum of Art (Aomori, Japan), Iwami Art Museum (Shimane, Japan) , Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art (Shizuoka, Japan)
2018: “VOCA" The Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo, Japan)
2018: “an attempt on the encountern between the Science and the Arts, 2018 Tokyo - an exhibition featuring artists participated in the Kavli IPMU Artists in Residence (AIR) program” KAMATA_SOKO (Tokyo, Japan)
2018: “Mr. | Prize Selection Exhibition” Tenjinyama Cultural Plaza (Okayama, Japan)
2015: “from 8 artists Selection/Collection” Gallery OUT of PLACE NARA (Nara, Japan)
2014: “Mangaro” Friche la Belle de Mai (Marseille, France)
2010: “ZERODATE" Onariza&Kyu-Bonjour (Akita, Japan)
2010: “ART BATTLE ROYALE" Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo (Tokyo, Japan)
2010: “Ku-chu GO" MAGIC ROOM?? (Tokyo, Japan)
2009: “SECRET PHANTOM 2" Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo (Tokyo, Japan)
2007: “Central East Tokyo 07" Agata Building (Tokyo, Japan)
2006: “EXPOSITIONa - MANDALA” La Petite Rockette (Paris, France)
2006: “l'art sans fin” Le CARROSE (Paris, France)
2005: “Happy New CARROSSE 2006" Le CARROSE (Paris, France)

Artists in Residence

2022: J-Collabo (New York, USA)
2015: Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Chiba, Japan)

Public Collection

2019: Iwami Art Museum (Shimane, Japan)
2015: Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Chiba, Japan)