About

Koji Nakazono was born in 1989 in Kanagawa, Japan. At his graduation exhibition at Tokyo University of Arts in 2012, he was selected for inclusion in the exhibition “Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2012”, in which 30 students selected from all art schools in Japan presented works, and where he received the Tomio Koyama Award and the Audience Award. He held solo exhibitions at Tomio Koyama Gallery in the following years in 2013 and 2014, and participated in his first museum exhibition, The Way of Painting, at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in 2014.

His remark that ‘it’s more comfortable to be …