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, JP
In Sounds, In Places, La Chaufferie, galerie de la HEAR, Strasbourg, FR
2020 See-Saw, Labor Neunzehn, Berlin, DE
2019 Stepping, STUK, Leuven, BE
2018 Cyclic, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
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