Fujiko Nakaja
| Type | Artist Female |
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| Associated person(s) | |
| URLs | Wikipedia German Wikipedia entry Wikipedia English Wikipedia entry Review Kenjiro Okazaki: The lucid, unclouded fog—the movement of bright and swinging water particles. Document Markopoulos, McDougal (Editor): Over the Water: Fujiko Nakaya. San Francisco, 2013. |
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| Award | 2018 | Praemium Imperial Award in Sculpture | The Japan Art Association | Japan | |
| Award | 2017 | Commandeur, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres | Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication | Paris, France | |
| Award | 1993 | Minister of Construction Award | London, England | Foggy Forest | |
| Award | 1993 | Yoshida Isoya Special Award | Japan | ||
| Award | 1976 | Australian Cultural Award | Australian Government/ Australian Council for the Arts | Australia | Fog Sculpture #94768 "Earth Talk" |
| Exhibitions | |||||
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| Solo exhibition | 2018 | Fog x FLO | 20th anniversary of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy | Emerald Necklace Conservancy, USA | five site-responsive installations along Fredrick Law Olmsted's Emerald Necklace |
| Group exhibition | 2004 | Fog Sculpture #28634: "Dialogue", Technology for Living: Experiments in Art and Technology | Norrköpings konstmuseum | Norrköping, Sweden | |
| Art in Public Space | 1998 | Fog Sculpture #08025: F.O.G. | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao | Bilbao, Spain | Permanent Collection |
| Solo exhibition | 1994 | Greenland Glacial Moraine Garden | Ukichiro Nakaya Museum of Snow and Ice | Ukichiro Nakaya Museum of Snow and Ice | Kaga City, Japan |
| Art in Public Space | 1992 | Foggy Forest | Children's Park, Showa Memorial Park | Tachikawa, Tokyo | |
| Art in Public Space | 1988 | Fog Sculpture: Skyline | Jardin de l'eau, Parc de la Villette | Paris, France | |
| Project | 1983 | Fog Sculpture #94925: Foggy Wake in a Desert: An Ecosphere | National Gallery of Australia | Canberra, Australia | (permanent installation) |
| Group exhibition | 1981 | Waterfall: An Integrated River | Miyagi Museum of Art | Miyagi, Japan | |
| Group exhibition | 1980 | Fog Sculpture: Kawaji | Festival of Light, Sound and Fog | Tochigi, Japan | |
| Group exhibition | 1970 | Fog Sculpture "PEPSI PAVILION" | Expo'70 | Osaka, Japan |
| Artworks in Collections | |||
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| National Gallery of Australia | Canberra, Australia | ||
| Guggenheim Bilbao | Bilbao, Spain |
| Publications | ||||||||||||
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| Monograph | 2012 | 978-2951813229 | Fujiko Nakaya – Brouillard : Edition trilingue Français-Anglais-Japonais | Fujiko Nakaya – Brouillard : Edition trilingue Français-Anglais-Japonais | 978-2951813229 | France, Nantes |
Awards
, Japan
Praemium Imperial Award in Sculpture The Japan Art Association
Awards
Paris, France
Commandeur, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
Research and teaching
Osaka, Japan
the world's first atmospheric fog sculpture for the Pepsi Pavilion at Expo '70
Education
Evanston, USA
Bachelor of Arts Northwestern University
Born
Sapporo, Japan
Fujiko Nakaya is the first artist to have worked with fog as a sculptural medium. This is not to say that she molds the medium according to her own conception; rather, her approach is a subtle collaboration with water, atmosphere, air currents, and time itself. Experiential and ephemeral in nature, her fog sculptures have certain affinities with Conceptual and Land art, but nevertheless represent a radical departure in the history of art and technology.
Nakaya's work with fog, which she sees as a medium for the transmission of light and shadow, much like video, initially arose from her interest in what she calls "decomposition" or "the process of decaying." As an art student in the United States (where she moved with her family from Japan in the early 1950s), she painted dying flowers, and a series of cloud paintings made after her return to Japan later that decade express her fascination for natural phenomena that "repeatedly form and dissolve themselves." [1] Nakaya's first fog sculpture came about through her involvement with Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), an organization dedicated to facilitating and promoting collaborations between engineers and artists; among its founders in 1967 was Robert Rauschenberg, whom Nakaya had first met several years earlier during a visit by the American artist to Tokyo. In 1970 E.A.T. designed the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion for Expo '70 in Tokyo, the first international exposition held in Asia and a watershed for members of the Japanese avant-garde. With the support of other E.A.T. members, Nakaya decided to envelop the pavilion in fog, a feat she accomplished with the aid of an atmospheric physicist named Thomas Mee. The technology developed during this collaborative project has served, with some modifications, in all of Nakaya's subsequent fog sculptures.
https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en/the-collection/works/fog-sculpture-08025-f-o-g (3.11.2019)
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Fog Bridge #72494 | 2013 | Fujiko Nakaja | |
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Fog Sculpture #08025 (F.O.G.) | 1998 | Fujiko Nakaja | |