Motomichi Nakamura was born in Tokyo, Japan and graduated from Parsons School of Design. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NYC.

Minimum use of color (black, white and red) as well as a focus on the creation of characters and creatures using simple graphic elements characterizes Motomichi’s work visually across digital and traditional media.

The subjects in his work are part human and part monsters. They can appear at once childlike and sexually deviated. Motomichi’s need to express the conflictive nature of human behavior in his work is also translated visually with the use of strong contrasting colors in both his digital work and in his paintings.

Education

Selected Exhibitions

2007
· Heist, Charcoal Studios, Miami, USA - upcoming
· Platform International Animation Festival, Video Installation, Portland, Oregon
· Grizzly Proof, Flux Factory, New York
· Fantasy Island3, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada
· “Faith in Exposure”, Monte Video, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
· FILE Rio 2007, Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
· Scope New York, U.S.
· Rembrandt Screen, Rembrandt Screen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006
· Museum Van Nagsael, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
· FILE 2006 : the Electronic Language International Festival, SESI Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
· Flux Factory Auction & Gala 2006, Lennon, Weinberg gallery, New York, U.S.
· Rhizome Artbase 101, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, U.S.
· wellROUNDED, Spring 3D Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.
2005
· DIGIT NO DIGIT, AC/APA/CPP Galerie, Bordeaux, France.
· FILE 2005 : the Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
· New media: what, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, U.S.
· Post Notes, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, U.K. - curated by Adam Carr in collaboration with ICA Exhibitions
2004
· Permanent Loops in Videolounge, Pictoplasma 2004, Berlin, Germany
· The Violence of Tone, w139 Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2003
· Kids are us - I Bambini Siamo Noi, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy - curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga
· Ctrl_0 Exposition Collective, La Ink, Toulouse, France
· POS T-IT, Floating ip Gallery, Manchester, UK
· File 2003, Sala Cultura Inglesa do Centro Brasileiro Británico, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2002
· Parole, parole, parole, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
2001
· Rendez-Vous Electronique, Beaubourg Contemporary Art Center, Paris, France
· Images in Motion, University of Munich, Munich, Germany
· Korea Web Art Festival 2001, Seoul, South Korea – curated by Heavy Industries
· The Art Directors Club 80th Traveling Exhibition, U.S., Europe, Asia, South America
2001
· Artport, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, U.S.

Live Performances

2007
· Riverbeats Live ‘07, Parramatta Riverbank, Parramata, Australia
· Transvizualia ’07, Klub Ucho, Gdynia, Poland
· Visuelt ’07, Grand Hotel, Oslo, Norway
2006
· Festival della Creatvità, Fortezza da Basso di Firenze, Florence, Italy
· Sound and Motions, Monkey Town, New York, U.S.
2005
· MOMA Family Event, Modern Museum of Art, New York, U.S.
· Audio Visual Performance, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, U.S.
2004
· MOMA Family Event, Modern Museum of Art, New York, NY, U.S.
· Cartoombria 2005, Perugia, Italy
· Reel Asian 2004, Toronto, Canada
2003
· AVIT UK 2003, Brighton, U.K.

Selected Screenings

2007
San Francisco International Animation Festival, San Fransico, USA
Ofensiva Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland
Platform International Animation Film Festival, Portland, USA
Visuelt ’07, Oslo, Norway
53rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
Sónar CINEMA 2005, Barcelona, Spain
2006
Best of 2006 Stash DVD, The Museum of the Moving Image, New York
Res Fest 10, U.S., Europe, Asia, South America
2005
Onedotzero_10, Europe, Africa, Asia, South America
Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Sónar CINEMA 2005, Barcelona, Spain
2004
Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
RES Screening Series 2, Hollywood, CA, U.S.
Sundance Digital Film Festival, Park City, UT, U.S.
New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY, U.S.
Ciber@rt Bilbao 2004, Bilbao, Spain
Pictoplasma 2004: design and animation screening program, Berlin, Germany
GenArt Ignite, New York, NY, U.S.
2003
Viper International Film Festival, Basel, Switzerland
2002
Darklight Digital Film Festival 4, Dublin, Ireland
Sundance Digital Film Festival, Park City, UT, U.S.
Cinegrafias Encontro Internacional de Animaçao Digital e Media Arte, Lisbon, Portugal
MFA Film Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, U.S.
2001
Sundance Digital Film Festival, Park City, UT, U.S.

Permanent Collections

Digitalcraft, Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt, Germany

Selected Bibliography

“Motomichi Nakamura”, BG Magazine, Ecuador, 2007
“Nakamura Motomichi”, Milk, Hong Kong, 2007
“Characters”, eye, UK, 2007
“Toy Art”, Revista Zupi, Brazil, 2007
“Prints and Illustrations”, Use Fashion, Brazil, 2007
“Motomichi Nakamura”, Milk, Hong Kong, 2007
Rojo Magazine:vol.seis, Spain, 2007
 “Monster Design”, EGG, Taipei, Taiwan, 2006
Rojo Magazine:vol.mich, Barcelona, 2006
“Showcase”, Creative Review, UK, 2006
“Free Style”, Director’s Magazine, Tokyo, Japan, 2006
The Picture Book, London, UK, 2006
“Motomichi Nakamura”, Submarine Channel, The Netherlands, 2006
"Monsters", Étapes Magazine, France, 2006
"Motomichi Nakamura", Pixelsurgeon, U.S., 2005
"Motomichi Nakamura", Pixelsurgeon, U.S., 2005
“Reboot”, ATOMICA, U.S., 2005
“Motomichi Nakamura: Japanese digital artist in New York”, DVJ, Japan, 2004
“Motomichi Nakamura - interview”, Rhizome.org, U.S., 2004
“Interview with Motomichi Nakamura”, X-Funs, Taiwan, 2004
“Mutations & monsters”, Magazine du CIAC, by Anne-Marie Boisvert, Canada, 2004
"Digital Stadium", NHK BS TV, Japan, 2004
"Webslinky: Dark sites", BBC Art, UK, 2004
“2004 Sundance Online Film Festival”, Guardian Online, UK, 2004
“Da Cattelan a Murakami i bambini sono loro”, La Stampa, Italy, 2003
"Instant Soup", TRAX Magazine, France, 2003
“La nuit manga”, Paris Première, France, 2003
"Patchwork", Étapes Magazine, France, 2003
"Flash short films", Arte-TV, Germany, 2002
“Is it a Qrime?”, Rhizome.org, New York, 2002
"Feuilleton", Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Germany, 2002
“Sundance Online Festival”, Sundance Channel, Park City, 2001
“Digital Sundance”, CNN Headline News, U.S., 2001
"La balade des pendus", Étapes Magazine, France, 2001
“L’ heur, du Qrime”, Libération, France, 2001
“Pushing the bounds of net film”, Wired News, US, 2001
“Motomichi’s flash of violence”, RES alert, US, 2001

 Publications/Published DVDs

Motion Blur2 (DVD), by Onedotzero, London, UK, 2007
Monstruos & Maestros, published by Concrete Hermit, London, UK, 2007
Best Of (DVD), by Submarine Channel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2007
Pictoplasma 3, Berlin, Germany, 2007
Reline 2 (DVD), by The Blackchair Label, U.S., 2007
STASH vol.25 (DVD), by Stash Media, Vancouver, Canada, 2006
Vjing: Art+Technology of Live Audio/Video, San Francisco, U.S., 2006
STASH vol.13 (DVD), by Stash Media, Vancouver, Canada, 2005
Pictoplasma - Characters in Motion (DVD), by Pictoplasma, Berlin, Germany, 2005
Internet Art, by Rachel Green, published by Thames & Hudson, UK, 2004
Iconography vol.2, published by IDN, Hong-Kong, 2004
“Best Japanese Digital Artists”, MdN Designer’s File, Japan, 2004
VJ Book, published by D-Fuse + Lumens / D7, UK, 2006
Visual Niches - extraordinary music videos, (DVD) Series published by E-motions, Germany, 2003, Berlin, Germany, 2003
“Kids are Us - I Bambini Siamo Noi” Exhibition Catalogue, Work Art In Progress, Italy, 2003
“Parole, Parole, Parole” Exhibition Catalogue, Work Art In Progress, Italy, 2002

Awards and Honors

 Conferences and Teaching

2007
Lecturer, Coidigra ’07, Isla de Margarita, Venezuela
Lecturer/Workshop, Esquina Norte ’07, Tijuana, Mexico
Lecturer, Visuelt ‘07, Oslo, Norway
Workshop Lecturer, The Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, Norway
2006
Lecturer, Pictoplasma Conference, Berlin, Germany
Lecturer, Netart Initiative and Intelligent Agent, Jihui Salon, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, U.S.
2004
Lecturer, Cartoombria 2004, Perugia, Italy
2002
Interactive Design Professor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.
2001
Lecturer, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY, U.S.