Takezaki Kazuyuki was born in Kochi in 1976 and graduated from the Faculty of Education at Kochi University. Yu Nishimura was born in Kanagawa in 1982 and graduated from the Department of Oil Painting in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tama Art University. In 2017, their collaborative journey in painting began when Yu Nishimura participated in the “現代地方譚5 −想像の葦−” artist-in-residence project in Kochi. In 2020, they held the “並行小舟唄展” at KAYOKOYUKI in Tokyo.

Takezaki Kazuyuki’s notable solo exhibitions include “ARTIST FOCUS #01竹﨑和征 雨が降って晴れた日” (2020, Kochi Prefectural Museum of Art), while Nihimura Yu’s major solo exhibitions include “Aperto 09 Nihimura Yu paragraph” (2018, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa), among others.