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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
[through Sep 23] This exhibition place used to be an electric power plant. Yanobe will transform this abandoned building into the "future" place by creating a story and put it as an installation...
[through Aug 1] Takashi Homma has photographed the waves of North Shore in Hawaii since 2000. His new series of "New Waves" taken in 2010, is now exhibited at 1223 gallery in Tokyo....
[through June 8] This exhibition features Kumano, an early video work by internationally renowned Japanese artist Mariko Mori (born 1967, Japan), and a recent ...
As an artist who utilises a unique combination of delicately drawn lines and celluloid picture-like expressions to vividly portray the lives of young female prostitutes, her works
This series of watercolor paintings, however, takes a somewhat different direction from Ikezoe's past works. While most of his previous works were paintings resembling prints on