July 25th, 1918
born in Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
1920
suffered from spinal caries due to accident
1942
became pupil of his aunt [master of flower arrangement, Ikenobo School]
1949
first solo exhibition "Hana [Flower]" [Marugame]
1950
joined the flower arrangement artist's group "Byakutosha" [organized by
Mirei Shigemori]
1951
left Ikenobo School and became independent
1952
stage installation for the dance performance "Koku [Empty Space]"
celebrating the twelfth centennial since the erection of the great
Buddha of Todaiji Temple, Nara
1954
invited artist to the Modern Art Fair
1956
moved to Tokyo
1968
first solo exhibition in Tokyo [Ito Gallery]
1981
first solo exhibition of glass works "Hanagarasu [Glass Flower]"
[Galerie 412, Tokyo]
1984
first solo exhibition of karaku works "Karaku; Flower/Water" [Ginza
Jiyugaoka Gallery, Tokyo]
1989
group exhibition "Calligraphy and Sumi Paintings of Five Artists"
[participated in calligraphy exhibitions every year since after then]
1994
serial visual article "Ononoki [Fear]" in weekly magazine "Shukan Asahi"
1998
installation "Kagami no Naka no Kagami no Kagami [Mirror in the
Mirror]" [Yamaguchi Prefectural Hagi Art Museum, Uragami Gallery]
participated in the exhibition "etre nature" [Fondation Cartier pour
l'Art Contemporain, Paris]
2000
exhibition "Homage to Shuzo Takiguchi Vol.20; Yukio Nakagawa―Dedicating
Olive Trees"
2002
performance "Hana Gurui [Flower Crazy]" [Tokamachi City, Niigata
Prefecture]
2003
exhibition "Yurinso/Nakagawa Yukio/Ohara Museum" [Ohara Museum,Okayama]
move to Marugame, Kagawa
2004
exhibition of calligraphy "Bokuyu" [Otowa Gallery, Tokyo]
exhibition "2004 Nakagawa Yukio" [Aratland Gallery, Marugame]
2005
exhibition "Nakagawa Yukio and Motoko Maio" [Niki Gallery SATSU,Tokyo,Nasu]
exhibition"Nakagawa Yukio, an artist who has devoted his life to
flowers"[The Miyagi Museum Of Art, Miyagi][Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum
Of Contemporary Art, Marugame]
group exhibition"Artists' Garden-Botanical Recollections"[The Tokyo
Metropolitan teien Art Museum, Tokyo]



●Public Collection
Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, France
The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan
Marugame Inokuma Gen'ichiro Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

●Awards
Prize, Schonste Bucher aus Aller Welt, Leipzig, Germany [for "Hana:
Works of Yukio Nakagawa" [1978]
Oribe Grand Award, the Second Oribe Award [1999]
Person of Cultural Merits, Marugame City [1999]
Achievement Award for the Promotion of Contemporary Japanese Arts[2004]
Higashikawa Prize, Domestic Photographer Prize[2004]