Solaya Nagai
Solaya Nagai was Born in Saitama Prefecture, Japan in 1991.
She graduated sculpture course at Musashino Art University Graduate School in 2016.
She uses various materials such as acrylic materials, stuffed animals, and ready-made products, in order to create sculptures with multiple boundaries to be exhibited.
Theme of her artwork is to represent questions about the senses, common-sense, and cognition that people unconsciously hold in the wake of small doubts of the things and usual events.
Currently, she has focused on manufacturing techniques for industrial products and mass-produced inexpensive materials, and she is trying to integrate them into her works.
She continues to search for expressions that enable to accord with her own sensory elements to form the "things that no one has seen yet " by mixturing various materials and different techniques.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
"HOOP AND HOLE" THE POOL,Hiroshima
2018
"Nameless Silhouette" Musashino Art University gFAL,Tokyo
2017
"Loud Whisper" HARMAS GALLERY,Tokyo
2015
"News of someday" gallery blanka,Nagoya
2014
PHASE2014 "Walk to the north and meet in the south" Aomori Museum of Art,Aomori
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
"STEP,SWAP,WIP,WHAT’S UP?" Katsuya Sugimoto / Solaya Nagai Duo Exhibition,HARMAS GALLERY,Tokyo
"New Artist Presentation Exhibition" Kawaguchi Art Gallery ATLIA,Saitama
TAV GALLERY 5th Anniversary Exhibition「MID CORE」TAV GALLERY,Tokyo
"ARTS SAITAMA KITAMACHI" PLAZA NORTH,Saitama
2018
"DI-VISION/0" Ryoko Kumakura / Solaya Nagai Duo Exhibition,TAV GALLERY,Tokyo
2017
Japan Arts Foundation "Cross Arts and Culture" Tokyo Geijyutugakusya Gaien Campus,Tokyo
2016
"SOMETHINKS" SUPER OPEN STUDIO,Art Laboratory Hashimoto,Kanagawa
"root's n routes" Yumikobo,Kurashiki
"Musashino Art University Degree Show 2015" Musashino Art University,Tokyo
2015
"3/2,4" Bambinart Gallery,Tokyo
"Dialogue with the Sculptures" Fuchu Art Museum,Tokyo
"BURR" Solaya Nagai / Miho Fujimoto Duo Exhibition,Grill Gallery,Tokyo
2014
「"Piling Lines" Musashino Art University (Fine Art Laboratory),Tokyo
"Musashino Art University Degree Show 2013" Musashino Art University,Tokyo
2013
"Korea-Japan International Exchange Exhibition" Sungsan Art Hall,Changwon,KOREA
ART FAIR
2020
"DELTA Experiment" TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY,Osaka
"3331 ART FAIR 2020" 3331 Arts Chiyoda,Tokyo
"ART NAGOYA 2020" Hotel Nagoya Castle,Nagoya
2019
"LUMINE ART FAIR -My First collection-" LUMINE0,Tokyo
"rooms39 / LUMINE ART FAIR -My first collection- Preview event" TOC GOTANDA MESSE,Tokyo
"ART NAGOYA 2019" Hotel Nagoya Castle,Nagoya
2018
"ART NAGOYA 2018" Hotel Nagoya Castle,Nagoya
2017
"Mitsukoshi 110th Anniversary Art Exhibition -Rin-"Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store,Tokyo
"ART OSAKA 2017" Hotel Granvia Osaka,Osaka
2015
"ISETAN ART&CREATION FESTA 2015" ISETAN Shinjuku Main Store,Tokyo
"ART NAGOYA 2015" The Westin Nagoya Castle,Nagoya
WORKSHOP
2014
"300, 60,&5 - day Calendar " Aomori Museum of Art,Aomori
AWARD / SCHOLARSHIP
2018
25th anniversary grant (Japan Arts Foundation)
2015
Scholarship (Japan Arts Foundation)
2014
Takashi Shimizu Award (Musashino Art University)
