Masumi Nyui
Biography
A native of Hokkaido, Japan, Masumi Nyui first came to the U.S. in 2000. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art degree in Painting with honors from Green Mountain College in Vermont, and is currently a second year M.F.A. candidate in Painting at Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. She has completed her SCAD-Lacoste graduate residency program in 2008. In 2009, she received the New York City Workspace Opportunity Award, during which she worked with art professionals in the City for a ten-week quarter period. She has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally.
Artist Statement
Mistrust of mediation motivates my work. By reevaluating the systems that we use to acknowledge and judge, I seek to realize and remember things that are changed or lost in the process of mediation due to their intangibility of subtleness. By giving physicality or visibility to what is not necessarily tangible or visual, through my work, I suggest the presence of things that cannot, and perhaps should not, be defined by words or any other means.
Education
Fall 2009
Master of Fine Art candidate, Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design
May 2005
Bachelor of Fine Art, Painting, Green Mountain College (magna cum laude)
Solo Exhibitions
2010
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Alexander Hall Gallery, Savannah, GA (scheduled)
2009
Masumi Nyui Open Studio, New York City Workspace, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts,
New York, NY
2006
With Light and Sensibilities, Feick Arts Center, Poultney VT
2005
Masumi Nyui Senior Art Exhibit, Surdam Art Gallery, Green Mountain College, VT
Group Exhibitions
2007-2009
Spring and Fall Open Studio Night, Savannah College of Art & Design
2008
Ink, Oil, Film, Duck Tape, and Some Paper, with Nathan Lewis and Jim Collins,
Desotorow Gallery, Savannah, GA
Vernissage, SCAD-Lacoste, France
2006
New Works for the New Year, juried exhibition of Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council, Glens Falls, NY (juried by Katie Casey, Andrea Scheidler and Tom Myott)
2004
Untitled.04, with Johanna Brown, Daniel Guentchev, and Amber Rohe, Surdam Art Gallery, Green Mountain College, VT
Honors/Awards
2007-present
Combined Honors Fellowship, Savannah College of Art & Design
2009
New York City Workspace Residency (juried), Savannah College of Art & Design
2004
Alpha Chi National Honor Society, Green Mountain College, VT
2003, 2005
Visual & Performing Art Award, Green Mountain College, VT
2002
Outstanding Freshman Award, Department of Visual & Performing Art, Green Mountain College, VT