b. 1976

Education

2007   M.F.A., Slade School of Fine Arts, Sculpture Department

2005   B.F.A., Chelsea College of Arts, Sculpture Department

2000   Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Aesthetics and Art History Department

Solo Exhibitions

2022   Flat, void+, Tokyo
            In Sounds, In Places, La Chaufferie, galerie de la HEAR, Strasbourg
2020   See-Saw, Labor Neunzehn, Berlin
2019   Stepping, STUK, Leuven
2018   Cyclic, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2017   Paging, Breakthrough Book Gallery, Hong Kong
2016   Throw, Borealis Music Festival, Lydgalleriet, Bergen
2015   becoming sounds, ShugoArts Weekend Gallery, Tokyo
            Leave, Karin Weber Gallery, Around Sound Festival, Sound Pocket, Hong Kong
2014   Fall, noshowspace, London
            Fall, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
2010   I Can Hear It, Soundfjord, London
            pun~q, Quare, London
2009   Unwind, Void+, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023   Drum Listens to Heart, The Wattis Institute, San Francisco
2022   Three Days: Haruko Nakajima & Rie Nakajima,Yanaka Idaten, Tokyo
            Everywhere Gather Yourself Stand, Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo
            Sonic Garden, French School of Athens, Athens
            Hear Here, Walk Along Sound Art, STUK, Leuven
            Two Days: Haruko Nakajima & Rie Nakajima, Art Space Tetra, Fukuoka
2021   Listening to the Anthropocene, Coventry Biennial, Coventry
            Klang Moor Festival, Gais
            Polyphon, Kunstsammlung Gera Orangerie & Museum Für Angewandte Kunst, Gera
2020   Klangkünste - drei Positionen an den Rändern eines weiten Feldes, Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden
2019   Dead Plants & Living Objects, Museo Vostell Malpartida, Caceres
            Big Orchestra, Schirn, Frankfurt
            Persisting Realities, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Bethanien, Berlin
2018   Tsonami Festival, Galería de Arte Municipal de Valparaíso, Valparaíso
2016   What Are We Building Down There?, Bucharest Biennale, Bucharest
2014   DYAD, Room Artspace, London
            No Music Was Playing, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil
2013   The Silence Between, Paul Stolper Gallery, London
2009   Zen und Konkret, Quilow

Selected Performances

2022   Maggie Nichols Residency, Cafe OTO, London
            Next Festival, Bratislava
            The Wire 40: The Tao Of AMM x The Essence Of SME, Cafe OTO,  London
2019   O YAMA O, Festival Novas Frequências, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
            dara dara by David Toop + Akio Suzuki + Aki Onda + Rie Nakajima, Oscillation Festival, Recyclart, Brussels
            O YAMA O with David Cunningham, BBC Late Junction Festival, EartH, London
            Akira Sakata x Rie Nakajima Live Performance, Hara Museum, Tokyo
2017   Dead Plants & Living Objects by Rie Nakajima & Pierre Berthet, Meakusma Festival, Eupen
2016   Saturday Live : Low, Serpentine Gallery, London (solo)
            BMW Tate Live:Tarek Atoui The Reverse Collection, Tate Modern, London
            On the Edge: Young on Sylvian – Skrap – Rowe/Toop/Davies/Nakajima/Durrant, Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
2015   Performance Nacht, Zero, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (solo)
            Christian Marclay, White Cube, London (solo)
            Over the Fence, Camden Art Centre, London (solo)
            boundary music, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2014   New Experimentalists, The Arts Foundation Award, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London (solo)
2013   Blue, Yellow, Red, South London Gallery, London
2010   Art Birthday, Okno, Brussels (solo)
            A lot of pedals, A lot of pianos..., curated by David Cunningham, at Markson Piano, London
2009   Unwind, Takahiro Kawaguchi + Rie Nakajima, Void+, Tokyo

Curation

2015   Sculpture 7, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2015   Sculpture 6, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto
2014   Sculpture 5, Lydgalleriet, Bergen
2014   Sculpture 4, Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield
2014   Sculpture 3, Central Saint Martins, London
2013   Sculpture 2, Barbican Art Centre, Dalston House, London
2013   Sculpture 1, Cafe OTO, London
2011   Lost Sounds, Miki Yui and Rolf Julius, Cafe OTO, Soundfjord, London

Online Works

2021   Flower Wind, YouTube
2020   Seven Days Bird Songs : 14-20 May 2020, YouTube
            Six Cans, YouTube

Publications

2018   becoming sounds, True Ring / Cawaii Factory
2018   Cyclic Box, (Ikon Gallery)
2014   Rie Nakajima and David Toop in Conversation, noshowspace

Discography

2022   Utsuho, Takahiro Kawaguchi & Rie Nakajima, tsss tape (Cassette Tape)
2021   Mani Mani, Pierre Berthet & Rie Nakajima, Kohlhaas (CD)
             Signal and Signaless, Ken Ikeda &Rie Nakajima, ftarri (CD)
2020   Umihiko Yamahiko, Akira Sakata &Rie Nakajima, TakuRoku (DL)
             KaruKuru, TakuRoku (DL)
2019   Fusuma, tsss tape (Cassette Tape)
            1.May.2018, Akira Sakata & Rie Nakajima, Ikon Gallery (LP)
            Dethick, Angharad Davies / Rie Nakajima /Alice Purton, Another Timbre (CD)
            Floating Weeds, Ken Ikeda / Makoto Oshiro / Rie Nakajima, 901 edition (CD)
2018   O YAMA O, O YAMA O, MANA (LP)
2016   With many many…, White Cube (LP)
2014   Four Forms, Consumer Waste (LP)

Awards/Fundings/Fellowships

2022   Takashimaya Art Award in Sculpture Category
2021   The David and Yuko Juda Art Foundation
2017   Boom Oxford Contemporary Music
2016   Nomura Foundation
2014   The Arts Foundation Award in Experimental Music Category
2012   Cafe OTO Associate Artists
2009   Pola Art Foundation Oversea Study
2006   Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists
2007   Peter and Elizabeth MacLean Award, Slade School of Fine Arts