Kazuo Nakamura

Kazuo Nakamura was born in Vancouver in 1926. He studied art at Central Technical School, Toronto from 1948 to 1951. He was a member of Painters Eleven from 1953 to 1960. The one man exhibitions of the works of Kazuo Nakamura include Picture Loan Society, Toronto (1952, 1956), Hart House, University of Toronto (1953), Western Canada Circuit (1955, 1956), Gallery of Contemporary Art, Toronto (1956, 1958), Morris International Gallery, Toronto (1962, 1965), Morris Gallery, Toronto (1967, 1970), Waddington Galleries, Montreal (1967, 1970), Hart House, University of Toronto (1970), Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa (1974, 1975), Moore Gallery, Hamilton (1984). He has participated in many group shows including Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour (1951), Canadian Society of Graphic Art (1952), Painters Eleven Roberts Gallery, Toronto (1954), First Biennial National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1955), Canadian Abstract National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1956), Painters Eleven Riverside Museum, New York (1956), Fourth International Exhibition of Drawings and Engravings Lugano, Switzerland (1956), Canadian Abstract Smithsonian Tour, USA (1956/57), Art Gallery of Toronto (1957), Canadian Contemporary Painting Australian Tour (1958), First Inter American Bienniale Mexico City (1958), Canadian Paintings Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Texas (1958), International Festival of Art New York (1958), Contemporary Canadian Art Central Museum, Utrecht, Holland (1958), Museum Rath, Geneva, Switzerland (1959), Wallraf-Richartz Museum, cologne, West Germany (1959), Canadian Graphics and Drawings Belgrade, Zagreb and Ljubljana, Yugoslavia (1959), 20th Biennial International Watercolour Exhibition Brooklyn museum, New York (1959), Canadian Prints, Drawings & Watercolours American Federation of the Arts, USA (1960), Nakamura and Town Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1960), Fifth International Hallmark Art Award Exhibition, New York and International Tour (1961), Second Bienniale Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, France (1961), 8 Ontario Painters University of B.C., Vancouver and Western Canada circuit (1961), Canadian Painting Poland Tour (1962), Canadian Contemporary Art Kenya, Africa (1962), Canadian Contemporary Art Louisville, Kentucky (1962), Commonwealth Paintings London, England (1962), Recent Acquisitions Museum of Modern Art, New York (1963), Contemporary Canadian Paintings Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, New York (1963), Canadian Paintings London, England (1963), Members Loan Gallery Acquisitions Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo (1964), First Biennial Drawings and Watercolours National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1964) Four Painter-Sculptors London Regional Art Gallery, Ontario (1964), World Show Washington Square Gallery, New York (1964), Cardiff Commonwealth Festival Exhibition Wales (1965), Art and Engineering Art Gallery of Ontario (1965), Centennial Exhibition of Canadian Prints and Drawings Australian Tour (1967), Sculpture '67 Toronto (1967), Centennial Exhibition of Quebec and Ontario Contemporary Painters (1967), Canadian Art of Our Time Winnipeg Art Gallery (1967), Canadian Artists '68 Art Gallery of Ontario (1968), Seventh Biennial of Canadian Painting National gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1968), Loeb Collection Traveling exhibition (1970, 1971), Painters Eleven 1953-1960 Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa (1971), Toronto Painting 1953-65 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (1972), Canada Art Bank, Paris (1973), A Canadian Survey Collection of Imperial Oil Limited circulated by the Art Gallery of Ontario (1978/80), Painters Eleven in Retrospect Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa (traveling-1979/81), Ontario Heritage Foundation's Firestone Collection London, Paris, Plymouth, Madrid (1983/84), Toronto Painting In the Sixties Art Gallery of Ontario (1984), Masterpieces of 20th Century Canadian Painting, West Palm Beach Florida (1984). The works of Kazuo Nakamura are widely collected and can be found in the following museums and art galleries: the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Museum of Modern Art (NY), Hirshorn Museum (Washington) Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, N.B., London Regional Art Gallery, Ontario, Hamilton Art Gallery, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Windsor, Sarnia Art Gallery, Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catherines, Lugano Art Museum, Switzerland, Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Hart House, University of Toronto, Victoria college, Toronto, Glendon College, York University, Toronto, University of Western Ontario, Guelph, Concordia University, Montreal, Art Gallery of Ontario. He is also widely represented in both private and corporate collections.