2003 Graduated from Chelsea college Art & Design, MA Fine Art, in London
2001 Graduated from Byam Shaw Art college Post Graduate, in London
1999 Graduated from Bsemi Schooling system, in Yokohama Japan
1997 Graduated from SAGA Art college, Printing course, in Kyoto Japan
1995 Graduated from Toho High School, Fine Art course, in Nagoya Japan

Tomoko Nagao (Nagoya, 1976), dal 2006 vive e lavora a Milano.

Formatasi a Nagoya e presso la Bsemi Schooling System di Yokohama, nel 2000 si è trasferita a Londra e si è laureata al Chelsea College Art & Design, MA Fine Art nel 2003.

Esordisce nel 1998 con una personale alla Yuraku-Bashi Gallery di Tokyo. Nel 1999 vince il Canon Price a Tokyo con un lavoro fotografico. Dal 2006 in Italia si dedica alla pittura e alla scultura avviando una ricerca neo-Pop  che l’ha portata ad essere selezionata come giovane artista all’esposizione internazionale Botticelli Reimagined organizzata dalla Gemäldegalerie di Berlino e poi al Victoria and Albert Museum di Londra nel 2016. Dal 2018 al 2024  espone in numerose mostre personali e collettive a Milano e a Taiwan ( nel 2024 Kawaii Art History-Tomoko Nagao’s first exhibition in Taiwan, cycc, Taoyuan). A Taipei nel 2024 ha realizzato un`opera di public art: un grande pavimento in ghisa colorata per il “Taipei Dome” . Tra le principali opere destinate al contesto urbano si citano le monumentali sculture create per la Galleria Alberto Sordi a Roma, il gonfiabile immaginato come installazione temporanea presso il Franciacorta Village nel 2018.

Tomoko Nagao (Nagoya, 1976) has lived and worked in Milan since 2006.

Trained in Nagoya and at the Bsemi Schooling System in Yokohama, she moved to London in 2000 and earned an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2003.

She made her debut in 1998 with a solo exhibition at the Yuraku-Bashi Gallery in Tokyo. In 1999, she won the Canon Prize in Tokyo for a photographic work. Since 2006, in Italy, she has dedicated herself to painting and sculpture, embarking on a neo-Pop exploration that led to her selection as a young artist for the international exhibition “Botticelli Reimagined,” organized by the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin and later at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2016. From 2018 to 2024, she exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in Milan and Taiwan (in 2024, “Kawaii Art History—Tomoko Nagao’s First Exhibition in Taiwan,” cycc, Taoyuan). In Taipei in 2024, she created a public art piece: a large colored cast-iron floor for the “Taipei Dome.” Among her major works for urban settings are the monumental sculptures created for the Galleria Alberto Sordi in Rome and the inflatable installation conceived as a temporary installation at the Franciacorta Village in 2018.

Solo shows:

2025 Angels, Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Diamond Towers Taipei Taiwan
2024 “The allegory of Taipei dome” collaboration with FunDesign, permanent publicart in Taipei Taiwan
2020 “Women in Pop” 210 Gallery, Galleria VIK milano, Milano Italy.
2020 “Icons of art” workshop for Uniqlo 1st univasary, Uniqlo store, milano Italy.
2019 “TOMOKO NAGAO” Triennale di Milano, Milano Italy.
2019 “SHISEIDO ARTLAB ” collaboration and workshop with SHISEIDO, Venezia Firenze Roma Catagna Milano Italy.
2018 “Iridescent Obsessions TOMOKO NAGAO” Deodato Arte, Milano Italy.
2018 “TOMOKO NAGAO” in Galleria Alberto Sordi, Roma Italy.
2017 “TOMOKO NAGAO” Cantina Majolini, Ome Franciacorta Italy.
2012 “TOMOKO NAGAO-new wave of TOMOKO, ONDA POP” in lo spazio eventi MONDADORI store, Milano Italy.
2012 “Superflat experience di TOMOKO NAGAO” Galleria Famiglia margini, Milano Italy.
2012 “Micropop- Kawaizazione di TOMOKO” MO.OM, Olgiate Olona, Italia.
2007 “PoP PuPPet” Galleria Famighia Margini, in Milano Italia. www.famigliamargini.eu
2003 “Sweet and Melt” IOSA Gallery, in London.
1999 “Castle in the sky” at YAMATE 234 Gallery, in Yokohama.
1998 YURAKU BASHI Gallery, in Tokyo.

Group shows:

2025 POP JAPAN, Plalazzo Gallo, Osimo, Italy
2025 Japan POPART, Deodato arte, Pietrasanta, Italy
2025 Japan POPART, Deodato arte, Padova, Italy
2025 Japan POPART, Deodato arte, Mialno, Italy
2025 BEYOND BOUNDARIES, GARDE Milano Showroom, Milano Italy
2025 Cenacoli, Sala Nevera a Comune di Saronno, Sarronno, Italy
2024 NEO POP, Museo d’Arte Moderna Mario Rimoldi , Cortina Italy
2024 Per grazia ricevuta, galleria Giovanni Bonelli Milano Italy
2022 THE RED DOT, VOTRE, Carrara, Italy
2022 Con me o con nessuno, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
2020 living women, Casa lago, Milano, Italy
2019 Oh my pop!, nhow milano, Milano Italy
2019 Girls Girls – International Exhibition of Art & Illustration, Taipei City Arts Center, Taipei Taiwan
2019 SURFASHION, GALLERIA VIK MILANO, Milano, Italy
2018 Japan pop in Franciacorta” Franciacorta outlet village, Rovato, Italy
2017 Kirakira, Contemporary Concept Galleria Cavour, Bolongna, Italy
2016 Botticelli Reimagined, Vittoria and Albert Museum, London UK
2016 The last last supper, Villa Burba, Rho, Italy
2015 Botticelli Renaissance, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany
2015 Premio Pio Alferano 2015, Castello di Castellabate, Castellabate, Italy
2015 Super pop zoo, Ex complesso conventuale San Francesco, Alessandria, Italy
2015 Pop icon, Museo Diocesano, Milano, Italy
2015 Nippop 2015, Bolonia, Italy
2015 M-WAM – making our future, Expo 2015 Milano, Fondazione Triulza, Milano Italia
2015 M-WAM – Milano World Arts Map, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano, Italy
2015 Asta Adisco, Sotheby’s, Milano, Italy
2015 ONE: Breart2015, galleria Hernandez, Milano, Italy
2014 Super pop woman, Giuseppe Veniero Project, Palermo, Italy
2014 Sistema Kunrei, White noise gallery, Roma, Italia
2014 BRERART 2014, giardini di via montello, Milano, Italy
2014 KabukiManga” Orsorama, Milano, Italy
2014 Popup revolution, Casorma XXIV Maggio- Milano, Italy
2014 MdM museum- Porto Cervo Sardinia, Italy
2014 Superheroes 2.0, Gestalt Gallery, Pietrasanta, Italy
2014 SO SURREAL SO POP, GALLERIA DAVICO ARTE, Torino, Italy
2014 Hungry for Art” Superstudio, Milano, Italy

2013 Mad hatters, Flower Pepper Gallery, California, USA
2013 Bentornato Caravaggio 2013″ la manifestazione organizzata da Decima Musa Caravaggio, Caravaggio Italia.
2013 GAZE, Nagoya, Japan.
2013 Link art fair HK, art basel HK, Hong kong, China.
2013 Edo POP” Arte accessibile,design week out events, spazio sole 24 ore , Milano, Italy
2013 SALOME & NIPPOSUGGESTIONI, via Dante, Milano, Italy
2013 Road map, spazio OCA, Milano, Italy2012 POP UP, Arte accessibile, Milano, Italy
2012 NEO POP POP SURREALISM VS URBAN ART, SPAZIO ORLANDI, Milano, Italy
2011 SANRIO FOR SMILES EXHIBITION @ Mijapan 2011″ Chiostri dell’Umanitaria, Milano, Italy
2011 New grotesque, Bsilica di Sant’Ambrogio Milano, Milano, Italy
2011 Dolls, Museo Diocesano di Brescia, Brescia, Italy.2010 Wa infinity-Live painting” corso garibaldi, Milano, Italy
2010 Videoart Yearbook 2010″ Chiostro di Santa Cristina, Bologna, Italy
2010 Micropop & Nipposuggestioni” ANGELart Gallery, Milano, Italy2009 Crosstalk International Videoart festival, Budapest, Hungary
2009 il corpo oltre il corpo, Galleria Famiglia Margini, Milano, Italy
2009 digital is human, Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci”, Milano, Italy
2009 DONNE ED EROS, Galleria Famiglia Margini, Milano, Italy
2009 FUWARI IN PALAZZO REALE, bookshop “mostra SAMURAI” in Palazzo reale, Milano Italy2008 Juppun Japan” Chelsea College of Art and Design, London U.K.
2008 Cronosfera festival, Cavatore, Italy
2008 Pokopony in Palermo, Skip Gallery, Palermo, Italy.
2008 InContemporanea, numero DUE, Triennale Milano, Milano, Italy
2008 SOLD OUT”, Milano, Italy
2007 C-PRAYER FESTIVAL, BASE B, Milan, Italy
2007 7th EEA21 Ecology Earth Art Exhibition”,The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, in Saitama-shi, Japan.
2007 InContemporanea, numero UNO, Triennale Milano, Milano, Italy2006 JAPAPOP”, Spazio OREA MALIA, Milano, Italy
2007 GEOGRAFIE DI UN NON LUNGO, swimming pool Xpo, Milano, Italy
2005 Iimawashi -Edinburgh Art Festival, Merz gallery, Scotland, UK
2005 What Happens When Everything is Reduced to Ones and Zeros?, Pearl fisher gallery, London, UK
2004 Art Discount, Xpo gallery, Milano, Italy
2004 First step, Art cottage gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Chelsea College MA, graduate show, London, UK
2002 Two stories, IOSA Gallery, London, UK
2001 Byam shaw Art college graduate show, London, UK
1999 CANON Photo Prize Show at P3 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1999 Bsemi Exhibition at Yokohama City Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1999 Happy go lucky, SEZON Art program, Tokyo, Japan
1999 Hiroshima Art Works, Haizuka Art center, Hiroshima, Japan
1999 CANON Photo Prize Show at Gallery RAKU, Kyoto, Japan
1998 Indies Art Space MARKET, Yokohama, Japan
1998 Bsemi Exhibition at Yokohama City Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1998 SHUZO NAMA BIJUTU” at Shopping center, Nagoya, Japan