Kazumi Nagano

Biographie

• 1946 born in Nagoya, Japan
• 1970 BA. Tama University of Art, Tokyo (a picture painting Japanese style:NIHONGA)
• 1972 Master of Art, Tama University of Art, Tokyo (a picture painting Japanese style:NIHONGA)
• 1968-1979 Artist (as picture painting in Japanes style)
• 1996 Began to study Jewellery under Miss Minato Nakamura.

Exhibits in public art collections

• Victoria & Albert Museum, London (GB)
• Alice & Louis Koch Collection of Rings
• The Cominelli Foundation (ACG – Contemporary Jewellery Association Italy)
• Private Collection (Vienna, Austria)
• Olnick- Spanu Collection (USA)

Awards

• 2002 Japan Jewellery Art Competition, Tokyo, Fine Works Prize

Exhibitions

• participation in many exhibtions in and outside of Japan, worldwide
• 2002-2004 Galerie Slavik, Wien
• 2010 winter journey 20 years the Slavik Gallery, Vienna
• 2015 Jewellery 1970 – 2015 Bollmann Colection/ Fritz Mayerhofer, Museum for Applied Arts, Vienna (Austria)

Publications

• 2007 Elle decor (Italy)
• 2008 The compendium finale of Contemporary Jewellers 2008
• GZ Art & Design (Vol. 7, Germany)
• 2009 paper gioelli di carta (La Triennale di Milano Design Museum, Italien)
• Moon Jewellery (AGC – association of Italian jewellers)
• 2010 Art meets Jewellery. 20 XYears Slavik Gallery, Vienna
• Vintage Jewellery (England)
• 2011 design & make, paper jewellery (Sarah Kelly, England)
• 2012 unexpected pleasures (Australia and England)
• Ten years Re: Jewellery (The central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China)
• 2014 Art Aurea (Germany)
• 2015 eclat – Master of new jewellery Design (Spaine)
• SCHMUCK (Monaco, Germany)
  also in 2013 – 2011, 2008, 2005
• Contemporary Jewellery Design (China)
• 2016 Jewellery City Talk. 25 years Slavik Gallery, Vienna (Austria)