Yuko Nishikawa (2022)
Yuko Nishikawa
Dates of residency: 11/7~12/21 2022
Artist URL:https://www.yukonishikawa.com/
After graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York in 2002 with a degree in interior design, Yuko Nishikawa documented the facade of the Guggenheim Museum in a 2008 restoration project. She has also assisted in hospitality and residential interior design projects for several of New York’s leading studios.
She designed furniture and lighting collections for luxury home furnishing company Donghia. All the while increasingly engaged in her own studio practice she launched ceramic collections in collaboration with Calvin Klein Home and Anthropologie, produced tableware and decorative objects for restaurants and hotels in the NYC area including Halifax, the W Hotel’s Hoboken NJ restaurant as well as the boutique. She also exhibited artwork through galleries and art spaces in Milan, New York, and New Jersey.
Since leaving Donghia in 2017, her work has evolved and expanded beyond the ceramic sculptures she exhibited in Possibly Tools at WantedDesign and the lighting installation You See A Sheep in the group show In Good Company, to include immersive, site and time-specific projects.
Her work reflects her accumulative experiences in architecture, restoration, interior and furniture design, crafts and engineering.
During her residency at SIKONEON, she created many new art works what made by wire for her solo exhibition in Japan.
She visited the DIY shop near the residence many times, researched various materials, repeated trial and error, and worked on a new group of works in the studio every day.
Yuko Nishikawa
Yuko Nishikawa
Dates of residency: 11/7~12/21 2022
Artist URL:https://www.yukonishikawa.com/
After graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York in 2002 with a degree in interior design, Yuko Nishikawa documented the facade of the Guggenheim Museum in a 2008 restoration project. She has also assisted in hospitality and residential interior design projects for several of New York’s leading studios.
She designed furniture and lighting collections for luxury home furnishing company Donghia. All the while increasingly engaged in her own studio practice she launched ceramic collections in collaboration with Calvin Klein Home and Anthropologie, produced tableware and decorative objects for restaurants and hotels in the NYC area including Halifax, the W Hotel’s Hoboken NJ restaurant as well as the boutique. She also exhibited artwork through galleries and art spaces in Milan, New York, and New Jersey.
Since leaving Donghia in 2017, her work has evolved and expanded beyond the ceramic sculptures she exhibited in Possibly Tools at WantedDesign and the lighting installation You See A Sheep in the group show In Good Company, to include immersive, site and time-specific projects.
Her work reflects her accumulative experiences in architecture, restoration, interior and furniture design, crafts and engineering.
During her residency at SIKONEON, she created many new art works what made by wire for her solo exhibition in Japan.
She visited the DIY shop near the residence many times, researched various materials, repeated trial and error, and worked on a new group of works in the studio every day.