1964　　　Born in Wakayama prefecture, JAPAN

◆ EDUCATION and CAREER

1998-present　Established own studio [ Chiba, Japan ]
1998-2001 Teaching Assistant at Art Festival at Niijima Glass Art Center [ Tokyo ]
1995-97 Teaching Assistant at Toyama City Institute of Glass Art
1991-94 Studied Sculpture and Glass at California College of the Arts [ Oakland, CA, U.S.A. ]
1989-90 Worked at Kagami Crystal CO.LTD. [ Tokyo ]
1988 Graduated from Hoshi University of Pharmacy [ Tokyo ]
1986 Studied Chinese Literature, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

◆ SELECTED AWARDS

2021 Circular Energy Prize, Circular Award
2020 GOLD AWARD, WORLD MEDIA FESTIVAL [Hamburg, Germany]
2013 GRAPHIC AWARD , CREATIVE HACK AWARD 2013
2011 Culture Achievement Award [ OKUWA Educational and Cultural Promotion foundation ]
2008 Culture Achievement Award [ Wakayama City]
2006 KINOKUNI Achievement Award " [ Wakayama Prefecture ]
1997 GRAND PRIZE, The 1st Contemporary Glass Exhibition in Satsuma [Kagoshima ]

◆ PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

　・ Victoria and Albert Museum [ London ]
　・ Ashmolean Museum in the University Oxford [ England]
　・ CERNUSCHI Museum [ Paris ]
　・ La Fundacion Centro Nacional del Vidrio [ Segovia, SPAIN ]
　・ ISE FOUNDATION
　・ DAIICHI Museum [ Nagoya ]
　・ Toyama Glass Art Museum
　・ Satsuma Glass History Museum [ Kagoshima ]
　・ Joryuji Temple [ Tokyo ]
　・ HONEN-IN Temple [ Kyoto ]
　・ Naruto City [Tokushina. Japan ]
　・ DAIKOKUYA Ryokan [ Tochigi ]
　・ Barclays [ Tokyo ]
　・ YAMAHA Music Foundation [ Tokyo ]
　・ Wakayama City
　・ HYATT REGENCY YOKOHAMA
　・ Hotel JAL CITY MIYAZAKI
　・ Medical Corporation Moriyamaikai [ Tokyo ]
　・ Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. [ Osaka ]

◆ EXHIBITIONS

2023
・Visionaries: Making Another Perspective, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art
・ARTEFACT, LONDON
2022
　 ・Forms for the Future, TOYAMA GLASS ART MUSEUM, JAPAN
2021
　 ・ Eye of the Collector, LONDON
2020
　 ・ COLLECT, Somerset House, London
　 ・ Japanese Wonder, Erskine Hall & Coe, London
　 ・ ONE ART TAIPEI, Taiwan
2019
　 ・ LIVING KOGEI , Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery
　 ・ Palm Beach Modern+Contemporary, Florida, U.S.A.
2019,18
　 ・ FINE ART ASIA , Hong Kong
2018
　・ Japan–Japonismes. 1867-2018 , Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris,
　・ ART NEW YORK
　・Asia Contemporary Art Show,Hong Kong
2019-12
　・ COLLECT, Saatchi Gallery, London
2019,18,16
　・ MASTERPIECE LONDON
2017 　　
　・ 3rd Triennale of Kogei in Kanazawa, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan 　　　　
　・Nishinaka Yukito: Eternity Captured in a Moment - Stepping into a Meditative Space of Glass Art, Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo, Japan
　・Naruto Art Gate Illumination 2017, Naruto City Muyagawa Shinsui Park, Tokushima, Japan
2016
　・ Nishinaka Yukito Exhibition, Daikokuya, Tochigi, Japan
2016,15
　・ PAD LONDON
2014
　 ・GOLD: ALL THAT GLISTERS - JAPANESE GOLD DECORATION, Embassy of Japan in the UK
　・ Nishinaka Yukito Exhibition, Tamesaburo Memorial Museum in Furukawa Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
2012
・5th The Exhibition of Contemporary Glass Koganezaki 2012, Koganezaki Crystal Park, Shizuoka, Japan
2005
　・Nishinaka Yukito Glass Exhibition, Honen-in Temple, Kyoto, Japan
2001
　・Beauty of Glass Exhibition, Himeji City Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
　・1st Japan Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition in Onoda, Onoda City, Yamaguchi, Japan
2000
　・Japanese Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition, Onoda Sunpark, Yamaguchi, Japan
1999
　・2000 Years of Japanese Glass: From the Yayoi Period to the Present Day, Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan
　・5th Feeling of Beauty- Kogei Exhibition, Takashimaya, Tokyo, Yokoyama, Osaka and Kyoto, Japan 　
　・Glass '99 in Japan – Splendor of the Unknown, Odakyu Museum, Tokyo

1997
　 ・1st Contemporary Glass Exhibition in Satsuma, Satsumacho Glass History Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
　　　・Art Now Kanazawa: 36th Hokuriku Chunichi Art Exhibition, Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Ishikawa, Japan
1995
・Glass in Japan, Museo de Segovia, Segovia, Spain
1994
　・Art Now Kanazawa: 33rd Hokuriku Chunichi Art Exhibition, Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan