2023
Installation
In situ work
Mural drawing, vinyl sticker, 4000x2670 mm
framed prints
Series on Sun -June
Artist’s publication
Clip, hobby, Intimacy
Artist’s publication
In collaboration with Deskjet Print
Artist’s publication
*a collection of works to touch and see. is a gathering of past personal works from France and Finland, made with many collaborators and contributors such as Léa Girardot, Photobooks From Finland, James Prevett, the artist’s computer, Inkjet Deskjet Printer…
It is a collection of works showed in different contexts: school, galleries, a vending machine, a window-exhibition.
What gathers all these works is the artist’s interest for publication as a form of artistic practice, its potential to connect with others, and the relationship between the banal element of a home printer, printing, and herself.
artist’s publication
20 pages
350x500mm + A4 print
digital and inkjet printing
edition of 100
2022.
"You are holding in your palms and between your fingers a narrative of the days passing by below the hurried sun of Helsinki. Carefully made to read and age, please, keep it dry and under direct sunlight."
The series on sun – June, is a publication mimicking formally a calendar, consisting of visuals playing between abstraction and figuration in the theme of temporality and light (an hommage to the summer month in Finland and midsummer times), a poem written by Hikari Nishida and handwritten in mirror by type designer Léa Girardot, and an A4 print. (In order to read the poem, the viewer needs to hold the page through the sunlight.)
The publication was part of The Newspaper Vending Machine project.
The Newspaper Vending Machine consists of series of commissioned artist publications using the newspaper format and sold in a vending machine around various locations in the city.
artitst’s publication
16 pages
A5
Inkjet print (home printer)
2025
“Above & underneath (I)” is the beginning of a series of publication focusing on drawing experiments with variety of techniques: pencil drawings mixed with collages, various papers, digital drawings, multi-layer prints (images printed many times on the same paper); all scanned images. They are an attempt to represent texture in drawings even textile resemblances in drawings. In other word it is an attempt to find tactility in images.
Artist’s publication
Two A4 prints
Inkjet Print (home printer)
Post-it
Munken Print
2022
Sculptor Gallery, 2-25.09.22.
In response to James Prevett’s sculptural work, this publication consists of a collection of poems, made by mixing and matching differents words picked up from already exisiting notes of the artist’s appointment planner.
By this process, new poetic notes from every day memos of future and past encounters in the city appeared. Each publication has a variation from the printing process, based on the ink level of the printer.
The text was also read live furing ICRN radio live, an extension of the exhibition by sounds, on 13.09.22, 19-21:00 in https://idaidaida.net, https://palanga.live, and https://tirkultura.net.
Performance and artist’s publication
Inkjet prtiner Deskjet print
Munken Print,
Post-its,
Clippers,
Digital Pdf & laptop
2021
The publication was printed during the show only.
Dream (in a dream) is a simple publication consisting of two words : “bonjour” (good morning), “bonsoir” (good evening). The printer is printing each pages in front of the viewer, mimicking the sky and the sun changing and moving throughout an imaginary day.
Installation
Muken Pure, dimension variable, digital soundscape.
Artist book
11 x 19,5cm
Munken Print White 90g/m2
64 pages
25 numbered copies
This sculptural and sound work was created in collaboration with artist Albane Durand -Viel. The printed landscape evolve from a figurative to an abstract world, going into a pattern perception of reality, opening or getting from a very defined word to a pixelised one where possibilities are bigger. It is a poetical prepresentation of the abstraction within the micro.
Artist initiative
2021-
Website dedicated to this project.
5-6.06.2026
Under the Leaf Art Book Fair, Uniarts Helsinki, FI, co-direction.
June 2026
Library Genesis, curated by Uni Nissinen, Rikhardinkatu Library, Helsinki, Fi,
exhibition of work.
August 2026
Hamuro mAiR, Fukui Prefecture, JP, artist in residency.
Living in Espoo, Finland.
Hikari Nishida
hikanishida(at)gmail.com
2025
Tokio Art Book Fair by TABF, Guest exhibitor, Tokyo, JP
2024
Further Reading, group show, Y Gallery, Reykjavik, IS
2023
Ei Mainoksia. Kiitos!, commissioned publishing work, Paola Jallili, Helsinki, FI
A collection of works to touch and see, Associate Gallery, Reykjavik, IS
2022
Twenty-Three Sculptures and a Painting, Association of Finnish Sculptor, Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki FI
The Series on Sun – June, URB22 Kiasma Festival, Helsinki, FI
Dream (in a dream), Exit Through the Loophole group exhibition, Vapaantaiteentila, Helsinki, FI.
WW, artwork, Mätäkuu group exhibition, Tuo-Tuo art space, Joutsa, FI
2020
Papercuts, group exhibition, PUBLICS, Helsinki, Fi.
Step 1: Time In Common, with Signe Cygan, artwork published in BUM editions issue 1, Helsinki, Fi.
Salonki, sale exhibition, Kosminen, Helsinki, Fi.
2019
Left rain, right sand, in the middle possibilities, with Albane Durand-Viel, Kosminen, Helsinki, FI
The Tokyo Art book fair Zine’s Mate Shop, participation in Tokyo Art Book Fair, Tokyo, JP
2018
C’est Très Important, group exhibition, Syndicat Potentiel, Strasbourg, FR.
Der Wald, group exhibition with Traffic d’Art, Kunstbezirk, Stuttgart, DE
2017
Contre temps, group exhibition, Saint Rémi Museum, FR
ARTIST-RUN INITIATIVE
2021-on going
The Temporary Bookshelf, Helsinki, FI
RESIDENCIES
2022
Villa Lill Kallvik, Helsinki, FI
GUEST LECTURER / TALK / TUTORING
2025
Course, Printed Matter: A Course About Self-Publishing, Under the Leaf Art Book Fair, the University of the Arts Helsinki, FI
Lecture, Irudikas International Festival, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Lecture Tama Art University, Department of Painting & Graphic Course, Tokyo, JP
Lecture, for Aalto University, VCD students, FI
2024
Guest teacher in Multipöly School of Publishing, Helsinki, FI
Lecture at LAB Institute of Design and Fine Arts, Lahti, FI
2023
Panel of discussion, Nordic Art Book Store - Curator Talk, Tokyo Art Book Fair, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, JP
Lecture, Visual Culture Seminar, Printmaking Dpt, University of the Arts, Helsinki, FI
Tutoring for Free Focus 4th year programme, Design Academy Eindhoven, NL
Lecture, Self Organised Publishing course, Visual Communication Design MA, Aalto University, Helsinki, FI
Lecture, Publikation och Publicering course, Konstfack University, Stockholm, SE
Lecture, Art School Maa, Helsinki, FI
Lecture, Publication as Artistic Practice, panel of discussion, Association of Photographic Artist Hippolyte, Helsinki, FI
MA Visual Communication Design course Self Publishing, Aalto University, Helsinki, FI
BFA Publishing Practices courses, University of the Arts, Helsinki, Fi
UNION
MUU ry (Artists' Association MUU)
AWARDS
2026
Awardee of the Most Beautiful Book Awards Finland 2025, in Art and Photography Books category
for the design of umbrella stone plate – Tatu Gustafsson, self-published
Graphic design: Hikari Nishida
GRANTS
KONE Foundation
Grafia
City of Helsinki
Frame Contemporary Art Finland
Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Stina Krook Foundation
Sasakawa Foundation
GRAPHIC DESIGN, PRINTED MATTER
The Finnish Museum of Photography, exhibition(s)
Helsinki Analog Festival 2026, visual identity
Talking through our bodies, exhibition & publication(s)
Tatu Gustafsson, artist book
© 2026 Hikari Nishida