Nksin

Nksin (born 1994 in Fukushima) is a Japanese artist whose real name is Shin Nakagawa. He still lives and works in Fukushima. He spent his childhood and adolescence between Japan and the Philippines, in a Filipino and Japanese family.

Nksin is self-taught. He paints mainly with an airbrush, in black and white, with very smooth gradients that he relates to the sfumato of Renaissance painters. His character busts borrow their drawing style from 1990s American animation and Japanese subculture of the same decade. He develops a delicate, emotionally charged visual language around memory, solitude, identity and human fragility, in dreamlike compositions that move between softness and tension.

Although based in Japan, Nksin has built a growing international presence and exhibits in Asia and the United States. In 2022, GR Gallery in New York presented "Hushed", his first solo exhibition in the United States. REVIVAL followed in 2023 at albertz benda in Los Angeles.