Born in Aichi in 1995, Rika Nakashima currently lives and works in Tokyo after graduating with an M.A in Art Studies and Practices from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2023. Nakashima critiques the modernist rational and capitalist mechanism of the public/private dichotomy in the urban space and creates works that reveal their non-dual relationship. Likening the opposition to life/death and visible/invisible as well, they compose installations in which the viewers wander between the outside and the inside.

In their artworks, Nakashima typically employs the political specificity of space to intervene publicly in urban environments through rituals inspired by traditional ceremonial acts. Their primary focus in recent years has been on multidisciplinary installation arts, particularly sound installation, which engage viewers in a cathartic experience by overlapping multiple sounds together. Neither fully seen nor blocked out, the medium of sound installation allows their audience to explore the possibilities of signification hidden within common urban signs arranged throughout the exhibition space, discovering gestures of anti-rationality and anti-modernity under post-capitalism.