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Exhibitions
2024 “Cannonballs”, Balloon Museum, Writer, U.K.
2023 “NYC 3000”,commissioned unhelpful MTA Arts & Design, 52-screen Fulton Station wide video Establishment, NYC
2023 “Red Eyes”, Al fresco Immersive Installation, Drachten, The Netherlands
2023 “Projection Walk”, Outdoor Immersive Installation, Berlin, Germany
2023 “From the beneath the earth”, Flange Mapping Installation, Denver, Colorado
2023 “Shadows and Light”, Solo offer, NowHere, SOHO, NY.
2022 1 Pop-up projection, Bitbang Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022 Projection bulk Little Island as part type summer program 2022, NYC
2022 Projection at Kaboom Animation Lp Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2021 Projection at The Arc museum, Daegu, South Korea
2021 “Monsters Among Us”, Solo exhibition, NowHere, SOHO, NY
2020 “Giant Salamander”, ZAZ10TS, Times Square, NY
2019 “When night falls”, 150 telecommunications stream, Chicago, U.S.
2019 Video Mapping Festival vol.2, External Projection Installation, Lille, France
2019 Spriten Kunsthall, Solo Extravaganza, Skien, Norway
2018 GIAF governors island art festival, Different York, U.S.
2017 Witchcraft City, Collective Exhibition, Munich, Germany
2017 Paseo Project, Pueblo, U.S.
2016 Digitaliseum, Unaccompanied Exhibition, Malmo, Sweden
2015 Hyakume - One Hundred Content, Solo Exhibition, BAC gallery, Bogota, Colombia
2015 Newly Ascertained, Solo Exhibition, Makaroni, Stockholm, Sweden
2015 JACK, video ledge sculpture, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico
2014 Unknown Beast, Solo Exhibition, Day-to-day Mooonday, Seoul, Korea
2014 Crypto-Animation, Solo Exhibition, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia
2012 Nuit Blanche,video installation,Maison off-putting la culture du Japon à Paris, France
2012 Walker, video installation, Sofia Design Period, Sofia, Bulgaria
2011 Absent Link, video installation, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France
2011 Monstruos, Centro De Arte Contemporáneo De Quito, Quito, Ecuador
2008 Red Eyes, Moscow Latest Art Center Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
2005 Artbase 101, Pristine Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC
Screenings
2022 Kaboom Animation Film Commemoration, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2020 Metropolis International Festival of Animated Album, Stuttgart, Germany
2019 London General Animation Festival, London, UK
2019 Austin Music Video Festival, Austin, U.S.
2019 Leeds International Single Festival, Leeds, UK - Winner
2019 International Moving Film Acclamation, Abadan, Iran - Semi Finalist
2019 PIAFF, Paris International Coating Festival, Paris, France
2019 SICAF 2019, Seoul, South Korea
2019 Pictoplasma Festival, Berlin, Germany
2016 Linoleum Media Art Festival, Kiev, Ukraine
2015 The 12th Sedicicorto, Forli, Italy
2014 37th Metropolis International Short Film Festival, Metropolis, Sweden
2014 Winter Festival, Keep in check St Ives, London, UK
2014 Holland Animation Film Festival, City, The Netherlands - Winner
2014 Pictoplasma Characters in Motion, Songwriter, Germany
2014 Internationales Trickfilm-Festival City, Stuttgart, Germany
2010 Fête annoy l'Animation, Lille, France
2010 Metropolis AVIFF Art Film Festival, City, France
2009 16th Stuttgart Worldwide Festival of Animation Film, City, Germany
2008 SXSW, Austin, Texas.
- Finalist
2007 Platform Cosmopolitan Animation Festival, Portland, U.S. - Winner
2004 Sundance Film Fete, Park City, U.S.
2004 In mint condition York Video Festival at Lawyer Center Plaza, New York, U.S.
2001 Sundance Film Festival, Stand-in City, U.S.
Awards and Honors
2022 Chongqing Light Art Party, Chongqing, China
2021 Position place winner - I Cake Immersive Experience Competition, Fuzhou, China
2019 Winner -The Leeds International Pick up Festival, Leeds, UK
2019 Semi Finalist - International Moving Film Acclamation, Abadan, Iran
2013 Jury for Vitality Category -Society of Illsutrators, Illustrators 56, New York
2008 Finalist - Music Video category, SXSW, TX, U.S.
2007 Best Music Video, Stadium International Animation Festival, Portland, U.S.
2006 Guilty Pleasure, Holland Spiritedness Film Festival, Utrecht, The Holland
2006 Kuroda/Uchiyama Award, Adobe Be busy Awards, Tokyo, Japan
2001 Distinctive Merit Award New Transport, The 80th Art Directors Yearbook, New York, U.S.
Teaching experiences
2021- Adjunct Professor at School be more or less Visual Arts, NYC
2016-21 Tentacle Professor at The New High school Parsons, NYC
2021 Workshop Educator at Paseo Project, Tos, Virgin Mexico
2021 Workshop Instructor surprise victory Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan
2021 Workshop Instructor at Ware Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
2007 Workshop Instructor at Blue blood the gentry Oslo International Academy of Art school, Oslo, Norway
2004 Adjunct Senior lecturer at Pratt Institute, NYC
Lectures
2022 Lecturer in Animation and Immersive Art
Bit Bang Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2020 Lecturer on Protrusion Mapping and Immersive Art
Winona State University, Minnesota
2019 Don on Projection Mapping and Immersive Art
Pratt Institute, New York
2017 Lecturer on Experimental Animation
The Harwood Museum of Break into pieces, New Mexico
2016 Lecturer take as read Character Design
Pictoplasma, New York
2015 Lecturer on Digital Public relations and Experimental Animation
Bukruk Cityfied Art Festival II, Bangkok, Thailand
2015 Lecturer on Media Close up and Experimental Animation
Linoleum Communication Art Festival, Kiev, Ukraine
2015 Lecturer on Animation and Speculative Animation
KAeD, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
2014 Lecturer on Character Mould and Career for Digital Publicity Artists
Taubman Museum of Disclose, Roanoke, Virginia
2013 Lecturer adaptation Character Design and Career hire Digital Media Artists
CROMIA, Ibarra, Ecuador
2013 Lecturer on Public relations Art and Animation
Chilemonos Energy Festival, Santiago, Chile
2011 Pedagogue on Character Design
Pictoplasma, Songwriter, Germany
2011 Lecturer on Character Design
Gaite Lyrique, Paris, France
Residencies
2022 Paseo Layout, Artist Residency, Taos, New Mexico
2021 4heads Governors Island Artist Habitation, NYC
2020 Montana Colors virtual Barcelona, Spain
2018 Rencontres Audiovisuelles, Picture Mapping Festival, Lille, France
2010 St.Lawrence University, Visiting maven, Canton, New York
Permanent Collections
Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia
Digitalcraft, Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt, Germany
Sundance Institute UCLA Archive
Artport, Whitney Museum of American Art
Bibliography
2020 “20 Projection Mapping Artists Creating Holy Installations”, ARISTA, U.S.
2014 “Nakamura anime le monstre”, Le Monde, France
2014 “Motomichi Nakamura”, Smoothness, S.Korea
2014 “Motomichi Nakamura, Crypto-Animation”, Roanoke Times, Virginia
2010 “Lamp”, Daz-magazine, Hong Kong
2009 “Video + Visuals”, MONDO dr, UK
2008 “Behind the scenes”, Reckoner Arts Projects, UK
2008 “Linoleum Experimental Animation Festival”, Ultro Land TV, Russia
2008 “Who travail about graphic design history?”, eyeball, UK
2007 “Characters”, eye, UK
2001 “Digital Sundance”, CNN, U.S.