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Artist duo formed in 2007 by Yoshihisa Tanaka, who works in graphic design involving paper and two-dimensional composition; and Ryuta Iida, whose sculpturess employ paper and text. Nerhol garnered considerable attention for their 2012 portrait series made by taking photos of people over several minutes, then stacking up 200 prints of these photos and carving into them. In highly original expression that shifts nimbly between photography and sculpture, Nerhol continue their profound, multilayered explorations of human society and the natural environment, time and space, from a contemporary perspective.
Recent solo exhibitions include “Tenjin, Mume, Nusa” (Dazaifu Tenmangu Museum, Fukuoka; 2024), “Beyond the Way” (Leonora Carrington Museum, Mexico; 2024), “Reverberation” (The Mass, Tokyo; 2023), “Affect” (Dai-ichi life gallery, M5 Gallery, Tokyo; 2023) and “critical plane” (Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo; 2021); and among their major group show participations are “Tsubaki-kai 8: This New World” (Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo; 2021–23), “New Photographic Objects” (The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama; 2020), and “VOCA The Vision of Contemporary Art Exhibition 2020,” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo), at which they received the VOCA Prize.