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	Hiroshi Fuji Born in 1960 in Kagoshima, Japan. While grappling to find his "artistic expression," he joined the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers in 1986 and lived in Papua New Guinea for two years, teaching a... more >>

	Etsuko Fukaya Etsuko Fukaya has chosen etching to express the details as it allows her to draw extremely delicate lines. She exclusively works with naked eyes because even the loupe sets in between her eyes and the... more >>

	Tomoo Gokita Born in Tokyo in 1969. Gokita had his first major exhibition at Tokyo's Parco Gallery in 2000, with releasing his remarkable book 'Lingerie Wrestling' published by Little More. At that time he was mos... more >>

	Takashi Homma Born in 1962. Resided in London from 1991-1992. Worked at “i-D”, a periodical founded in 1980 that is geared towards young artists. Worked in many genres upon returning to Japan, including magazines a... more >>

	Akira Ikezoe Born in 1979, Kohchi prefecture, Japan. He currently lives and works in Tokyo. He holds a BA from Tama Art University. He received the Tomio Koyama Gallery Award and Gallery Naruyama Award at GEISAI ... more >>

	Hiro Kurata Hiro Kurata was born in Osaka Japan, and grew up in Tokyo and Chicago. His main focus is in creating surrealistic moment through his paintings,using motif of sports and chairs. Destruction and strengt... more >>

	Tomokazu Matsuyama B. 1976, Tokyo, Japan. Currently lives and works in New York City. Working in acrylic on canvas or paper, Tomokazu Matsuyama makes paintings that possess great charm and vivacity, a result of the ar... more >>

	Yasumasa Morimura Born in 1951, Osaka, Japan. Graduated from Fine Arts of Kyoto City University of Arts. In 1985, Morimura exhibited an large color portrait of Van Gogh inserting his own face and body into it. Since th... more >>

	Daido Moriyama Born in 1938, Osaka, Japan. After working as an assistant under photographers Takeji Iwamiya and Eikoh Hosoe, Moriyama struck out on his own in 1964. His photographs were continuously featured in phot... more >>

	Yuko Oda Oda's inspiration stems from observations of natural life forms and processes. Organisms like flowers and birds have forms and functions familiar yet foreign to us. At a glance, they seem simple and g... more >>

	Yoko Ono Born in Tokyo in 1933. An avant-garde visual artist, musician, and a peace activist. Married John Lennon of The Beatles, and later became known for their collaborative peace activism efforts. In 1953... more >>

	Paramodel Paramodel is an “art unit” formed in 2001 by Yasuhiko Hayashi (2001 Fine Art graduate from the Kyoto City University of Arts) and Yusuke Nakano (a Nihonga [Japanese-style painting] graduate from the s... more >>

	Katsuhiro Saiki Born in Tokyo, Japan, 1969. Lives and works in New York. Katsuhiro Saiki's work continues the dialogue of portraying landscape conceptually, as begun by the contemporary American photographer Lewis Ba... more >>

	Kanako Sasaki Born 1976 in Miyagi Prefecture. Studies Journalism at New York’s Ithaca College in 2001. During her studies abroad, she considers that art may be able to convey things in ways that words cannot, and l... more >>

	Toshio Shibata Born in 1949, Tokyo. Toshio Shibata studied photography at Royal Academy in Belgium and moved back to Japan. He started to take photos of concrete-made constructions such as dams and roads build up in... more >>

	Tetsuya Tamanoi After working for an agricultural cooperative association and buddhist altar article shop and owning a dance club, Tamanoi started his career as a designer in 2000. In 2009, Tamanoi had his first solo... more >>

	Keiichi Tanaami Keiichi Tanaami was born in 1936 in Tokyo and graduated from Musashino University of Art. Since 1960’s, he has been the one and only artist, who worked actively as graphic designer, illustrator, and a... more >>

	Kosuke Tsumura Kosuke Tsumura was awarded “So-en” prize in 1982, and he is well known as fashion designer, who started his own fashion brand “FINAL HOME” from the Miyake Design Company. His creativity, based on the ... more >>

	Ai Yamaguchi Ai Yamaguchi is an artist who utilises a unique combination of delicately drawn lines and celluloid picture-like expression to vividly portray the lives of young female prostitutes. Her works conjure ... more >>

	Soji Yamakawa Born in Fukushima, in 1908.At age 23 in 1931, he established a production company of “a picture-story show (which has a series of colored pictures depicting the content of the tales)” and published th... more >>

	Kenji Yanobe Born in 1965 in Osaka, Kenji Yanobe attended Kyoto City University of Arts and received a Master of Arts degree in 1991. Since the early 1990s, Yanobe has been incorporating the theme of survival in p... more >>

	Yuichi Yokoyama Yuichi Yokoyama was born in 1967 in Miyazaki prefecture. After studying oil painting at an art university, he began to draw manga as a medium that best suited his form of expression. To date, he has p... more >>

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"elan photographic" at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography: Jan. 26, 2012; [Exhibition]; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of photography was showing artworks by 5 emerging artists. Although they are all using photograph as a medium, their expressions were beyond our imagination and captured my eyes with excitement.
New Arrival: Tomokazu Matsuyama put traditional Asian imagery into new expression: Jan. 23, 2012; [Announcement]; After talking with Matsuyama and thinking of the feature of his work, one quote by Steve Jobs came up to my mind.
Hiroshi Sugito "Paintings and Sketches" at JCC in Singapore: Jan. 19, 2012; [Exhibition]; While Cool Japan and Takashi Murakami's Superflat series have led the charge the world over, blazing the trail for Japanese art on an international platform , another artist has been making inroads into the art scene with less fanfare.
"Kenji Yanobe : Sun Child, Taro's Children" at Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum: Jan. 14, 2012; [Exhibition]; 2011 is the 100th anniversary of Taro Okamoto's birth, who gave Yanobe great influence on his life as an artist. In celebration of Okamoto's centenary, several exhibitions have been held this year. The last one is this "Kenji Yanobe: Sun Child, Child of Taro". Colliding with Okamoto's work, Yanobe presents a novel and exciting view before our eyes.
Yoko Ono "I want you to remember me" at Gallery 360 degree: Dec. 26, 2011; [Exhibition]; This picture was taken during the WWII in front of a shrine. The family originally lived in Hiroshima prefecture where the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945.
Keiichi Tanaami "Dividing Bridge" and "Lost and Wandering Bridge Series": Dec. 22, 2011; [Exhibition]; Exhibitions titled "Dividing Bridge" and "Lost and Wandering Bridge", both by Keiichi Tanaami were held at gallery NANZUKA...; >>more..

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