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5 Women Artists You Should Know: Vol. 6
1. Yayoi Kusama – March 22, 1929 – Born in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, Kusama is a sculptor, painter, writer, installation artist and performance artist. As a child she experienced hallucinations and...
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Naoto Hattori: Super-Bionics
Japanese born painter Naoto Hattori has a new solo exhibition at Copro Gallery in California. For this exhibition called “Super -Bionics”, “Naoto has painted deities, creatures of his thoughts and...
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Yoskay Yamamoto: Illustration
Born and raised in Toba, Japan, Yoskay Yamamoto moved to the United States at the age of 15. A self-trained illustrator, Yamamoto’s artistic tastes expanded as he fell in love with the urban culture...
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Shingo Matsunuma: Digital Illustration
Shingo Matsunuma (aka shichigoro) is a Japanese artist based in Yokohama, Japan. Matsunuma studied oil painting at university but most of his current work is created in Photoshop. To see more, visit...
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Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool
“Nobody’s Fool is the first major New York exhibition of the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara (born 1959), and features more than one hundred works ranging from his early career in the 1980s to his most...
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Naoto Hattori: Mini Prints
Japanese born surrealist Naoto Hattori has released some new work in the form of affordable signed and numbered mini-prints. Hattori studied graphic design in Tokyo before moving to New York to study...
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Michihiro Matsuoka: Sculpture
More great work from Japanese sculptor Michihiro Matsouka. Matsouka finds inspiration from his childhood memories and deteriorated devices. Creating worn out devices that fuse animals and fish with...
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Shingo Matsunuma (Shichigoro): Digital Illustration
The latest work from Japanese artist Shingo Matsunuma (aka shichigoro). Matsunuma studied oil painting at university but most of his current work is created in Photoshop. To see more, visit...
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Takahiro Kimura: Illustration/Collage
More interesting work from Japanese illustrator, painter, animator, and character designer Takahiro Kimura. Kimura studied technology of painting and graphic design at Salesian Polytechnic, as well as...
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Ydk Morimoe: Painting
Interesting stuff from Japanese artist Ydk Morimoe (born 1985). See more at Tieba.Baidu.com.
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Yoskay Yamamoto: Picking Up Where We Left Off
Japanese born artist Yoskay Yamamoto, opened a new solo exhibition at LeBasse Projects in Culver City, California. Picking Up Where We Left Off references the time Yamamoto was able to spend with his...
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Michihiro Matsuoka: Childhood Dreams @ Artishox Gallery
DAF favourite Michihiro Matsuoka is having his first European exhibition entitled “Childhood Dreams” at Artishox Gallery in Hasselt, Belgium. “Born in 1969, living and working in Ichinomiya-shi, Aichi,...
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Hideaki Kawashima: Painting
Born in Aichi Prefecture, Hideaki Kawashima is a Japanese artist currently living and working in Tokyo, Japan. Kawashima graduated from Tokyo Zokei University in 1991 and in 1995 he trained for two...
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Hiroshi Nonami: Photography
As I read through bios and interviews of photographers that I feature, one name often comes up among them that is listed as a favourite or major influence. That name is Japanese photographer Hiroshi...
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Manabu Ikeda: Mixed Media
Born in 1973 in Saga, Japan, Manabu Ikeda currently lives and works in Tokyo. Ikeda has a BA in Design and an MA from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Ikeda has exhibited his...
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TateShots: Kusama’s Obliteration Room
Recently showing at the Tate Modern, Yayoi Kusama’s interactive Obliteration Room began as an entirely white space, furnished as a monochrome living room, which people were then invited to ‘obliterate’...
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Sayaka Ganz: Reclaimed Creations
Some recent work from Sayaka Ganz (featured). Ganz was born in Yokohama, Japan and grew up living in Japan, Brazil, and Hong Kong. Currently she teaches design and drawing courses at Indiana...
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Shintaro Ohata: Sculptural Painting
Born in 1975 in Hiroshima, Japan, Tokyo based artist Shintaro Ohata creates a combination of two and three dimensional sculptural paintings depicting daily unintentional scenes as if they were frames...
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Akira Yoshizawa: Origami
Origami, the traditional Japanese art of paper folding, stems from the Japanese verb oru (to fold), and the noun kami (paper). Thought to have originated in the 6th century, origami artists make...
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Naoto Hattori: Nothing But Perception @ Dorothy Circus Gallery
On April 12, 2014, Dorothy Circus Gallery in Rome presents a new solo show from Japanese artist Naoto Hattori. Nothing But Perception is the second exhibition with the gallery and includes 11 new...
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