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Hiroshi Fuji
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...
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Etsuko Fukaya
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...
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Takashi Homma
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...
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Akira Ikezoe
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 ...
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Hiro Kurata
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...
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Tomokazu Matsuyama
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...
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Yasumasa Morimura
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...
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Daido Moriyama
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...
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Kyoko Nagashima
Kyoko Nagashima
Born in 1970, Tokyo. Kyoko Nagashima started to take photographs for the preparation of her painting works but gradually got addicted to this medium. Since she wanted to capture a time range instead o...
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Yoko Ono
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...
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Paramodel
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...
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Katsuhiro Saiki
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...
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Naoko Sekine
Naoko Sekine
Sekine sees her work as a three-dimensional object whose sides you cannot see from any one perspective, but one that requires you to move around to view. Even though her work is on a two-dimensional c...
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Toshio Shibata
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...
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Tetsuya Tamanoi
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...
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Keiichi Tanaami
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...
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Kazuhito Tanaka
Kazuhito Tanaka
Tanaka is a Kyoto-based artist born in 1973, who uses photograph as a medium. Graduated from School of Visual Arts in New York, Tanaka has been exploring a new expression in photography. Influenced by...
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Kosuke Tsumura
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 ...
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Yutaka Watanabe
Yutaka Watanabe
Born in 1981, Tokyo. Watanabe is a painter who plays with shapes and human being's perception. Many colorful shapes are floating in his painting. How you recognize those shapes depends on your own per...
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Ai Yamaguchi
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 ...
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Soji Yamakawa
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...
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Kenji Yanobe
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...
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Yuichi Yokoyama
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...
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