Yuko Nasu

2005–2006 MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design
1993–1997 BFA Visual Design, Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan

Prize/award:
2009 Jerwood Drawing Prize
2008 Jerwood Contemporary Painters
2006 Bloomberg New Contemporaries

Nasu trained as an artist at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, where she gradated with an MA in 2006. Since she has exhibited widely in the UK as well as Ireland and Korea. She has been shortlisted for the Jerwood drawing prize twice and was included in the Bloomberg’s Young Contemporary show in 2006.

Nasu’s practice takes inspiration from the visual language of gossip magazines and discarded newspapers. Unfamiliar with the cultural references or celebrities in contemporary British media stories, Yuko Nasu is free to develop my own interpretations. Yuko’s work obsessively revisits this theme, combining a variety of physical features to forge new identities and imagined histories.