Tracy Nakayama

  

American, Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, 1974

  

Lives in Brooklyn, NY

 

EDUCATION

1998

MFA, The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

1995-1998 Silas H. Rhodes Scholarship, School of the Visual Arts, New York, NY
1996 BFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITONS

2005 New Work, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL

2004

We Are All One, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

  Message to Love, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY

2003

Project Room, No Name Exhibitions, Soap Factory, MN

  Free But Not Easy, Acuna Hansen Gallery, New York, NY

 

Feels Like the First Time, Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY

2002

Natural Born Lovers, Modern Culture at the Gershwin Hotel, New York, NY

2001 Those Who Love to Live, Voges and Deissen, Frankfurt, Germany

2000

Exotic Technique, Modern Culture at the Gershwin Hotel, New York, NY

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005 Erotic Drawings, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
2004
Heavenly Creatures, Gallery Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
  Majority Whip, White Box, New York, NY
2003
Attack!: Kult 48 Klubhouse, Deitch Projects, Brooklyn, NY
 
One Hundred Artists, One Hundred T Shirts, Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
 
United Bamboo Curated Show, Tokyo, Japan
 
Now Playing, D'Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY
 
Bad Girls, Ikon Ltd. Santa Monica, CA
 
New York Fucking City, South First Art, Brooklyn, NY
  Royal Art Lodge, Riva Gallery, New York, NY
  Lust and Leisure, Voges and Deissen, Frankfurt, Germany
  Teenage Rebel Paris, Agnes B., Paris, France
2002
Teenage rebel: The Bedroom Show, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY
  Erotica, Riva Gallery, New York, NY
 
Group Show 1, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Suggestive Line, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver, B.C.
 
Wonderland, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium
 
Face Value, White Columns, New York, NY
2001
Roberta Bayley, Tracy Nakayama, Lise Soskolne, Modern Culture at the Gershwin Hotel, New York, NY
  Small, Museum Editions, New York, NY
2000
Tweak, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
  Portrait Show, New Image art, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Return to the Real, Videoland, New York, NY
  Forever in Hell is a Long Time Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY
  Peek-A-Boo, ESP Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Acne, Double Pleasure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
 
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2004 Nelson, Arty. "Heavy Petting: Tracy Nakayama's Sex from a Woman's Perspective," LA Weekly
2003 "Happiness Issue," Vice Magazine, Vol. 10, No.1
  New York Times, July 18
  "Fullsome Chattiness/Biting Cattiness, Satire After William Hogarth," Zing Magazine, Issue 8
  "New Fucking City at South First Art," New York Times, July
2002 "Reviews," Tema Celeste Magazine, December
  "Audio Review," Sound Collector Magazine, Summer
  Gibson, David. "Reviews," Art Flash, May/June, p.13
  Mazzei, Rebecca. "The Lives of Self-Employed Artists,"
Venus, Spring, p. 32-3
  Sanders, Ellen and Judith Koelemeijer. "De Dead,"
Avenue, April/May, p. 8 & p. 69
  Zoo (London), Vol. 12, March, p. 87
  Time Out New York,"Art," January 31-February 7, p. 50
  Morton, Jennifer. "TV Frames: New York City," Citytv, Toronto, Cannada. Television interview. January.
2001 Chick, Lynn. "Tracy Nakayama: Modern Culture; New York, New York," Zing Magazine, Winter, p.215-6.
  Saltz, Jerry. "Something Wild," The VIllage Voice, December 25, p. 73
2000 Williams, Alex. "Lods of the Chambers," New York, November 13, p. 61.
  Garcia-French, Giovanni. "Artnet News: A Magazine with Zing,"
Artnet, July 17.
  "Art of the Practicing Heterosexual," Zing Magazine,
Spring/Summer, p. 194-209
1999 Saltz, Jerry. "Mood Swings," The Village Voice, July 21-27.
   
AWARDS
1998 Silas H. Rhodes Scholarship, School of theVisual Arts, New York, NY
1997 Silas H. Rhodes Scholarship, School of theVisual Arts, New York, NY
1996 Silas H. Rhodes Scholarship, School of theVisual Arts, New York, NY
1995 Silas H. Rhodes Scholarship, School of theVisual Arts, New York, NY