Artist Bio

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Maho Nishimura

Born in Aichi,Japan.
B.A. in Visual Design, Kyoto Seika University.

Illustration Artist .
Nishimura's work focuses on intricate, organic worlds that arise by drawing a chain reaction between imaginative images.
In recent years she is challenging herself with performance through live drawing and request drawing with the idea that “the drawing process itself is the expression.”

Selected Exhibitions and Performance

2012 - Curated Solo Exhibition 'Supernova' / Gallery APA / Nagoya, Japan
2012 - ART NAGOYA / Nagoya, Japan
2012 - YKO Dance company performance 'against' Livedrawing / Nanatsudera Kyodo Studio / Nagoya, Japan
2012 - Curated Solo Exhibition 'The CREATURE who lives in my garden' / Gallery APA / Nagoya, Japan
2011 - MahoNishimura & Takinao Exhibition 'I love TOKONAME Exhibition' / INAX MUEUMS / Tokoname, Japan
2011 - YOUNG ARTISTS' BOOKS FAIR_5th
         Group Exhibition & MahoNishimura Live Drawing / Kinokuniya Book Store / Tokyo, Japan & New York, U.S.A.
         Group Exhibition & Poetry Reading Live / BOOKCORT / New York, U.S.A.
2010 - Collaborative Mural Work for Revitalization Program / Kasadera-Kannon  Shopping District / Nagoya, Japan
2010 - Live Drawing Performance / Nagoya Port Art Festival / Nagoya, Japan
2010 - Juried Group Exhibition 'Creator's Market Show (from Art Battle Selection)' / Omotesando Hills Gallery 80 / Tokyo, Japan
2010 - Solo Exhibition 'Color of Rain' and 'Creatures of Rainbow ' / Art Salon Kinkodo / Nagoya, Japan
2010 - Solo Exhibition with Poem Reading Performance 'Anthology ~Poems Woven with Lines and Words~' / Keibunsha Gallery / Kyoto, Japan
2010 - Curated Solo Exhibition 'Sakura' / Gallery APA / Nagoya, Japan
2009 - Article on magazine IDEA #338  'Post Pop Graphics ~Floating Drawings~'
2009 - Live Drawing Performance (Curated) / Street Festival in Shizuoka / Shizuoka, Japan
2007 - Solo Exhibition 'Planet ☆ Aquarium' / Gallery Collage / Kyoto, Japan
2007 - Curated Duo Exhibition with  Aya Nakane / Gallery APA / Nagoya, Japan
2004 - Group Exhibition 'Reading ll ' / Pepper's Project / Tokyo, Japan

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