1983　
Born in Okayama, JAPAN

2008- 2010
M.A. Tokyo National University of The Arts, JAPAN

2010-2015
Yokohama College of Art and Design Teaching Associate, JAPAN

2015-2016
Agency for Cultural Affairs' Program for Upcoming Artist Overseas Trainee in Germany
Ruhr-Universität Bochum　The Faculty of East Asian Studies Visiting

2016　
„SALIX”, Städtische Galerie Kaarst, Kaarst (D
“Weaving the memory of music“, Taichung Metropolitan Opera House, Taichung (Taiwan)

2015
„BICCHU ART BRIGE“, Siraishi Island, Okayama, Japan
„Textile Artist NAGIRA Kotaro Solo Exhibition“, KINGYO KOO KAN, Taipei (Taiwan)
„aosando Art fair“, Omotesando, Tokyo (J)
„3331 art fair“, 3331 Arts Chiyoda,Tokyo (J)
„Retirement memory exhibition“ Yokohama College of Art and Design gallery YCAD, Kanagawa (J)

2014　
„ORU-3MANS EXIBITION“, MAKII MASARU FINE ARTS, Tokyo (J)
„Weben #2“, MAKII MASARU FINE ARTS, Tokyo (J)
„Weben“, Bottom studio of elevated Site-A, Yokohama (J)
„2014 Yokohama Triennale support programs. The sea of poco“, Markis Minato Mirai, Yokohama (J)

2013
„Taori art project in Jike-cho“, Yokohama College of Art and Design gallery YCAD, Kanagawa (J)
„Reconsideration from: fiber which wraps the ground“, Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of contemporary Art, Niigata (J)

2012
„ARTS OF GEIDAI × ROMANIAN ARTS 2012”, Four Seasons Hotel at Chinzan-so, Tokyo (J)

2011　
„EXHIBITION GEIDAI ART”, Fujiya Hotel, Kanagawa (J)
„International Design Symposium, Forum & Invitational”, POSCO Construction Company Song-Do Center, Incheon (Republic of Korea)
„ARTS OF GEIDAI × ROMANIAN ARTS”, Four Seasons Hotel at Chinzan-so, Tokyo (J)

2010
„NAGIRA KOTARO”, GALLERY U, Tokyo (J)
„OKIKO”, YOKOHMA CIVIC ART GALLERY, Yokohama, Kanagawa (J)
„AROUNDROUND”, YCC, Yokohama, Kanagawa (J)

Kotaro NAGIRA works with textiles to express his critical views of modern Japanese society.

He gets his inspiration to release the act of weaving from the notion of "making the cloth" and pursues the essence of the act of weaving.

He combines the social psychology of the contemporary with weaving. He is interested in the context of Japan’s mass consumer society and its relation to waste generation and management. He uses industrial waste and discarded articles such as used clothes, remains of yarn made in textile factories, video tapes and plastic bags. By weaving those, he expresses the state and psychology of people´s life in modern society.