Shigeru Nakanishi

is a Japanese artist from Tokyo, Japan.

Life and work Nakanishi graduated from the Tokyo University of Science Engineering Division, Architecture Section in 1969. He then became an architectural designer, painting as a hobby. After winning the leading prize in the Selection of Contemporary Western Painting in 1990, he made his debut with the first solo exhibition Melancholic Paris at the Ichimai-no-e Gallery in Ginza, Tokyo.

In 1995, he began his series of paintings titled Ruins after the Great Hanshin earthquake in Kobe. In 2002, he held an exhibition of his Deserted City series in Ginza, Tokyo. This series of paintings covered war-torn and deserted cities such as Sarajevo, Belgrade, Chernobyl, and Auschwitz.

In 2014, he bought an inn abandoned in Nagoya Onsen, in the city Izunokuni, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Having refurbished the inn, he founded what is called "Izunokuni Art Village". "Izunokuni Art Village" is a place dedicated to creation where everyone freely expresses his creativity.

Exhibitions and awards 1990: Gold Prize at exhibition Selection of Contemporary Western Painting 2011: Exhibition of Corridor of Light/Travel of Europe II series in Tokyo. Exhibition of series Ruins and Reproduction in Kochi. 2012: Exhibition of series Ruins and Reproduction in Yokohama 2013: Exhibition of series Ruins and Reproduction in Hiroshima 2015: Exhibition of series Ruins and Reproduction in New York 2016: Exhibition of series Ruins and Reproduction in Izunokuni

Publications Oil painting tips from a professional artist (2006, Kodansha) Initiation to oil painting (2008, Kodansha)