{"Id":7726,"Name":"Katsu Nakajima","Biography":"\u003Cp\u003EKatsu Nakajima\u003Cbr /\u003EAddress :\u0026nbsp;7-33-19 Shibayama Funabashi-shi Chiba 274-0816 JAPAN\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EM-Phone :\u0026nbsp;\u002B81-90-8846-8178\u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EE-mail : \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:LEE06037@nifty.ne.jp\u0022\u003ELEE06037@nifty.ne.jp\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWeb Addresses : \u003Ca href=\u0022https://www.katsunakajima.com\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttps://www.katsunakajima.com\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFacebook addresses : \u003Ca href=\u0022https://www.facebook.com/katsu.nakajima.5\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttps://www.facebook.com/katsu.nakajima.5\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstagram : \u003Ca href=\u0022https://www.instagram.com/katsunakajim/?hl=ja\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttps://www.instagram.com/katsunakajim/?hl=ja\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKatsu Nakajima was born in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. In 1973, he enrolled in Kyoto\u0026rsquo;s Doshisha University (founded 144 years ago), where he spent 4 years studying chemical engineering at the Faculty of Science and Engineering before graduating with an engineering qualification. After graduation from university, however, he changed direction and pursued a career in the world of artistic advertisement design. He was firmly resolved to become active in the world of advertisement poster production and image-based expression.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThereafter, he worked at Nippon Design Center, a Tokyo-based advertisement production company that turned out many excellent designers. In his activities as an art director, Nakajima has won many advertising awards, including the Minister\u0026rsquo;s Award, prizes in the Mainichi Advertisement Design Competition in Japan, and in the Poster Contest at the Czech Republic\u0026rsquo;s International Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno overseas. In 1988, he founded his own advertisement production company, ISAAC Co., Ltd, and took part as Art Director and CEO until 2009.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAround 2008, realizing that his mission in life was to become an artist, he started producing oil paintings while learning the basics of drawing at a painting academy. His thoughts when first handling oil paints were as follows: \u0022I was struck by the mysterious sense that I had been painting with oil since a long time ago, and there was no sense of unease at all.\u0022\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn his first year, he won three painting prizes in Japan, and in 2016, he won the Prime Minister\u0026rsquo;s Award, the highest prize at the 94th Hakujitsu Fine Art Association Exhibition. Also around that time, he twice won the special prize at NITTEN (Japan Fine Arts Exhibition), Japan\u0026rsquo;s largest integrated art exhibition, with a history of more than 100 years), and this impetus led him to win the Bouguereau Award at the 13th International ARC Salon Competition in 2018.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EToday, he runs a small academy at his studio in Chiba Prefecture, which focuses on realistic painting.\u003C/p\u003E","Awards":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022 style=\u0022text-align: left;\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s1\u0022\u003E\u25C6\u003C/span\u003E2018 13th International ARC Salon Competition (USA) - \u003Cstrong\u003EWilliam Bouguereau Award\u003C/strong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s1\u0022\u003E\u25C6\u003C/span\u003E2017 12th / International ARC Salon Competition (USA) /\u003Cstrong\u003EHonorable Mention Award\u003C/strong\u003E - Figurative Category -Landscape Category, \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s1\u0022\u003E\u25C6\u003C/span\u003E2017 93rd / HAKUJITSU Exhibition(JAPAN)- \u003Cstrong\u003ESompo Japan Nipponkoa Art Foundation Prize Award\u003C/strong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s1\u0022\u003E\u25C6\u003C/span\u003E2017 4th / International ModPortrait Competition (SPAIN)- 50 world selections,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s1\u0022\u003E\u25C6\u003C/span\u003E2017 109th /Japan Fine Arts Exhibition (NITTEN) - \u003Cstrong\u003ESpecial Prize Award\u003C/strong\u003E (Second time),\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s1\u0022\u003E\u25C6\u003C/span\u003E2016 92nd /HAKUJITSU Exhibition(JAPAN)- \u003Cstrong\u003EPrime Minister\u0027s Award\u003C/strong\u003E, \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s1\u0022\u003E\u25C6\u003C/span\u003E2015 11th / International ARC Salon Competition (USA)-\u003Cstrong\u003EThird Place Award\u003C/strong\u003E- Figurative Category/\u003Cstrong\u003EHonorable Mention Award\u003C/strong\u003E - Figurative Category-Landscape Category, \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s1\u0022\u003E\u25C6\u003C/span\u003E2014 106th /Japan Fine Arts Exhibition (NITTEN) - \u003Cstrong\u003ESpecial Prize Award\u003C/strong\u003E (First time), \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s1\u0022\u003E\u25C6\u003C/span\u003E2013 Sompo Japan Art Prize FACE Exhibition -Winning, \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s1\u0022\u003E\u25C6\u003C/span\u003E2008 37th / The Current Art Competition(JAPAN)- \u003Cstrong\u003EScenic Beauty Prize Award\u003C/strong\u003E, \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s1\u0022\u003E\u25C6\u003C/span\u003E2008 4th / World Painting Awards Exhibition (JAPAN) - \u003Cstrong\u003EMatsuda Prize Award\u003C/strong\u003E,\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s1\u0022\u003E\u25C6\u003C/span\u003E2008 2nd Art Center Memorial Painting Competition (JAPAN) - \u003Cstrong\u003ESilver Award\u003C/strong\u003E ,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s1\u0022\u003E\u25C6\u003C/span\u003E1986\u003Cstrong\u003E Silver Medal Award\u003C/strong\u003E at the Brnoard International Poster Biennale in the Czech Republic.\u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E","HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":false,"HasRelationships":false,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":true,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":false,"TotalArtworks":33}