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Kazuo Nakamura was born on 13 October, 1926 in Vancouver, British Columbia, is a Kazuo Nakamura was painter. Discover Kazuo Nakamura's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 13 October 1926
Birthday 13 October
Birthplace Vancouver, British Columbia
Date of death 9 April, 2002
Died Place Toronto, Ontario
Nationality Japan

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1926

Kazuo Nakamura was a Japanese-Canadian painter and sculptor (born Vancouver October 13, 1926; died Toronto April 9, 2002) and a founding member of the Toronto-based Painters Eleven group in the 1950s.

Among the first major Japanese Canadian artists to emerge in the twentieth century, Nakamura created innovative landscape paintings and abstract compositions inspired by nature, mathematics, and science.

His painting is orderly and restrained in contrast to other members of Painters Eleven.

His idealism about science echoed the beliefs of Lawren Harris and Jock Macdonald.

Kazuo Nakamura was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, as a second-generation Japanese Canadian (nisei).

1940

He began his art training in 1940 at the Vancouver Technical Secondary School.

Jock Macdonald, who was teaching there, is believed to have taught Nakamura design and also tutored him in drawing and painting.

Nakamura was a teenager when he became one of the 22,000 Japanese Canadians interned during World War II.

1944

At the Tashme Incarceration Camp, near Hope, British Columbia, Nakamura continued to create artworks, such as the painting Tashme at Dusk, July/August 1944 (1944).

Although he was able to paint only at day’s end, art provided an essential escape.

1947

Forbidden by the Canadian government from returning home to British Columbia after the war, Nakamura lived in Hamilton, Ontario, briefly before settling in Toronto in August 1947.

1948

He studied at Toronto's Central Technical School (1948–51), and was a founding member of Painters Eleven.

Although sharing in the other members' use of painterly abstraction, Nakamura's work was distinguished within the group by his use of simpler structures and monochromatic colours.

1950

Nakamura has said little about his state of mind during the Japanese Internment, though he notably attended a 50th anniversary camp reunion later in life.

While he is largely known as a member of Painters Eleven, Nakamura achieved tremendous success outside of the group and was internationally recognized by the late 1950s.

Influenced by fellow Painters Eleven member Jock Macdonald's interest in László Moholy-Nagy's reading of science, Nakamura was concerned with science, time and space.

Nakamura described himself as seeking a "fundamental universal pattern in all art and nature" reflected in his "inner structure" paintings from the 1950s.

1960

He regarded the Number Structure series as his most important body of work, although his blue/green landscapes, which he began producing in the 1960s, are his most popular and recognizable paintings.

Contemporary scholars have noted the influence of Nakamura's financial reality in his work.

Writing in Kazuo Nakamura: Life & Work for the Art Canada Institute, John G. Hatch notes that Nakamura's palette grew increasingly rich and diverse throughout his career, arguing that the relative simplicity of the artist's early style grew out of material burden.

His work is part of the permanent collection at Toronto's Lester Pearson International Airport and Ontario Provincial Queen's Park Complex.

1970

In the 1970s and 1980s he increasingly emphasized his grid paintings based on number structures, which came to involve the Fibonacci number system.

To Nakamura, these laboriously inscribed works were a quest for some ultimate order in the apparent chaos of the universe.

1983

In 1983 and 1984 as part of Ontario Heritage Foundation's Firestone Collection Nakamura's work toured London (UK), Paris and Madrid.

1991

In 1991 he exhibited at the New Canadian Embassy in Tokyo and in 1992 at Ader Tajan, Art Contemporain du Canada, Espace Chapon in Paris.

2000

In 2000 Nakamura was made an honorary fellow at OCAD University

He also was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

2004

In 2004 he was the subject of the posthumous retrospective Kazuo Nakamura: The Human Measure at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.

In 2023, the AGO organized Kazuo Nakamura (1926-2002): Blue Dimension, an exhibition of 15 paintings from the AGO Collection ranging from the 1950s to 1980s which opened in 2024.