OKAMOTO Naoko Solo exhibition -The Pink Anaconda-

Sat. 16 Nov. 2024 - Sat. 30 Nov. 2024 14:00-19:00　(Close:Thu. and Fri.)

Closing event: Sat. 30 Nov. 16:00-（500JPY with one drink )
Presentation and Performance

Nakako Okamoto has been enthusiastically en-gaged in studies that e xplore the relationship between artistic creativity and the brain, heavily influenced by her personal experiences of hallucinations and altered levels of consciousness in her youth. She has been pursuing her studies on the origins of creativity through interdisciplinary research in the arts, cognitive neuroscience, and cultural anthropology.

In this solo exhibition, she's presenting her works, based on her recent experiences during the course of her research period on traditional ceremonies in Iquitos; a remote city located in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon.

The wisdom and the spirituality of the Amazon invites the audience to experience its infinite and boundless universe, through the symbolism of the pink anaconda.

OKAMOTO Naoko http://en.nakako-okamoto.com/
1973	Born and Lives in Nara, Japan
1997	BA in Oil Painting, Aichi Prefectural University of Art and Music, Japan
2002	Foundation course, Chelsea college of Art and Design, London, UK
2004	MA in Painting, Wimbledon College of Arts University of the Arts London, UK
2013	Ph.D. in Media Art, Kyoto City University of Art, Kyoto City, Japan.

Work experiences
2010-2011	An assistant to school committee, the Department of Human Health Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan
2013-2014	A project researcher, Graduate School of Art, Kyoto City University of Art, Japan.
2022-2024	A project researcher in Kyoto Tachibana University, Japan
2014-now	An art teacher of the Asuru, Osaka, Japan
2021-now	Established the Kaiju Mirai Project – Art, People and community in Sakurai City –

Solo Exhibitions
2024	Solo exhibition, CAS, Osaka, Japan
2017	[A journey through a magneto-cosmic land], Nooo Kitty, Osaka, Japan
2014	Solo exhibition, Media Studio, Kyoto City University of Art, Kyoto, Japan
2013	Solo exhibition, Torary Nand, Osaka, Japan
2011	[ Art and the Brain: The Potential for Hyper-Sanity], Torary Nand, Osaka, Japan
2007	[One thousand kites project], Higashiosaka Art Museum, Osaka, Japan
2005	Solo exhibition, Torary Project, Osaka, Japan
2005	[One thousand kites project] （Yoshino River, Nara, Japan）
2004	[Absolute Perfection: One thousand kites project] (Wormwood Scrubs Park, London, UK）

Curation and Direction
2023	[Art festival HANARART 2023: The transparency of experiences] The Kaiju Mirai Project, Nara, Japan
2022	[The KYOTENTAI Exhibition], The Kaiju Mirai Project, Nara, Japan
2021	[Art festival HANARART 2021] The Kaiju Mirai Project, Nara, Japan

Group Exhibitions
2024	[Boundary] Space Department, Nara, Japan
2024	[The Whisper of the Kokkuri -san]+1art gallery, Osaka, Japan
2023	[Elements」 Space Department, Nara, Japan
2022	[Art festival HANARART 2022] TARN, Nara, Japan
2021	[Ten years after], +1art gallery, Osaka, Japan
2020	[The Tesla Club] 2kw gallery, Shiga, Japan
2020	[Phenomenological Sketch Exhibition], Gallery Haku, Osaka Japan
2013	[Eureka note sketchy], Gallery Yasuda, Osaka, Japan
2013	A presentation at Summer Art School,　Kyoto City University of Art, Kyoto, Japan
2012	Group exhibition, Kyoto City University of Art, Kyoto, Japan
2010	[The Artists Meeting vol.2] , at the vacant store in Soemon-cho, Osaka, Japan
2008	[The DOOR], Port Gallery T, Osaka, Japan
2008	[The Torary Project show], Art Fair Tokyo 101 Tokyo, Japan
2007	[The Artists Meeting vol.1], Creative Center Osaka (Namura Shipbuilding), Osaka, Japan
2005	[Art Project Ideas 2005], Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2004	[intermission], Space44, London
1997	[Three artists’ show], SpaceX Aichi Art Center, Nagoya, Japan
1995	[Three artists’ show], City gallery, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Residency
2024	1st – 29th September ‘AMAZÓNICA’ Correlación Contemporánea, Iquitos, Republic of Peru)
2022	17th April – 8th May La Wayaka Current（Guna Yala, Republic of Panama）

Scientific research
2013	Role of the left posterior middle temporal gyrus on artistic creativity in drawing: A study using TMS and functional NIRS（https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0302375）
2010	Role of the left posterior middle temporal gyrus on artistic creativity in drawing （non-peer reviewed）
2009	The effect of sleeplessness on artistic creativity（non-peer reviewed） (All the experiments were held at the Department of Human Health Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan)