Nobutaka Aozaki

www.nobutakaaozaki.com

Nobutaka Aozaki is a New York based artist born in Kagoshima, Japan. Nobu’s playful approach to his multifaceted practice, often focuses on the transient and transactional nature of life in New York City.

His work frequently combines performance and sculpture, developing from everyday interactions with people on the street.

Nobu received an MFA at Hunter College in 2012, and has received awards from A Blade of Grass Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, among others.

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Recent exhibitions include In Practice: Another Echo, Sculpture Center New York, Transportation, ISCP New York, Crossing Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, New York; Queens International 2013, Queens Museum New York, What is the Real Value of Wealth, Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia; Tina, SPIKE, Berlin; Where Do We Migrate To?, Varmlands Museum, Karlstad, Sweden; and Statements, Tokyo.

Nobu has participated in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Queens Museum Studio Program, the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program at the Bronx Museum of Art, Center for Book Arts workspace program and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s workspace residency program.

His work has been discussed in Spike Art Quarterly, the New York Times, The Atlantic Cities, the Huffington Post and Cabinet Magazine.