Ayao Nakamura “Move Through the Light, Like a Bird in Flight, Even as Stars Flicker — And What do you see Where the Light pours in?”

[Photo Exhibition]
Dates: November 21 (Fri) – 30 (Sun), 2025
Closed on Mon–Thu / Open on Nov 24 (substitute holiday)
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 22, 1:00 PM–
Hours: 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Venue: asterisk
Gallery NIW, 1-44-8 Sekiguchi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-0014


[Photobook]
Move Through the Light, As Birds Take Flight, As Stars Tremble,
And What Will You See in the Land Where Light Falls

Author: Ayao Nakamura
Editor: Daisuke Morishita
Design: Ayao Nakamura
Design Supervision: Makoto Shoji
Size: 257 × 364 mm
Pages: 64
Works: 50 color photographs
Binding: Hardcover
First Edition: September 14, 2025 (200 copies)
Price: ¥8,000 + tax
ISBN 978-4-9914195-1-5


[Ayao Nakamura – Biography]

[Selected Solo Exhibitions]
2017 Light, MUSÉE F, Tokyo
2012 Water of Light, UP FIELD GALLERY, Tokyo
2008 Magic of the Night [Room 1 | Room 2], Tokyo

[Selected Group Exhibitions]
2022 Shifting the Silence, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
2020 Blinking Skin: Life Shining from Death, Ashikaga Museum of Art, Tochigi
2012 Photography Today 4: The Light Then, the Wind Beyond, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

[Artist Books]
2012 pray
2011 Water
2009 night I–III

[Public Collections]
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA


 

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