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Born 1980, Japan Akira Inaba has completed his studies at the Graduate School of Sculpture at Tokyo Zokei University. His earlier works have articulated human movements as influenced by sports. However, in recent years, he has shifted his focus to figures that explore the nuances of distance in human relationships. Both bodies of work shareContinue reading “Akira Inaba”

AYA TAKANO’s artistry has yet to be fully dissected by the art world at large. She is that rarest of creators who forges their own unique artistic context – one that is far ahead of its time. Her work draws its themes from the schematics of unknown worlds, the frayed edges of society, misshapen animalContinue reading “AYA TAKANO”

Chiho Aoshima made her debut with a series of chromogenic prints that took advantage of her mastery of Adobe Illustrator but has since gone on to produce digital animations, sculptures, and hand-painted works. With imagery dealing mainly with Japanese yokai and graveyard spirits, she uses dialog with the extra-dimensional to explore the personal landscape ofContinue reading “Chiho Aoshima”

Dan Isomura creates artworks in various media, including twodimensional work, three-dimensional work, video work, sound installation, and project-based work. The themes of his works are diverse, often infused with a science fictional imagination, humor, and seriousness. If the themes of his previous works were to be summarized in short sentences, they would include: ‘Creating aContinue reading “Dan Isomura”

Born in 1995. Since making her debut as a professional artist with Kaikai Kiki Gallery in 2018, Kuraya has made impressive feats through holding solo exhibitions in global locations such as Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai and Paris, and her works continue to travel to the homes of collectors all around the world. Kuraya’s main medium isContinue reading “Emi Kuraya”

Born in Hong Kong in 1972. Kasing Lung started his collaboration with How2work in Hong Kong as an illustrator in 2011, releasing illustrated story books and a series of collectible figures. His first illustrated book in Chinese, My Little Planet, was published in Taiwan in 2013. In 2014, Belgian publisher De Eenhoorn published a children’sContinue reading “Kasing Lung”

Ken Kagami began his activities as a contemporary artist in earnest in Tokyo in the early 2000’s. Kagami creates artwork in the media of sculpture, painting, drawing, film and performance – engaging in a highly considered examination of present-day social phenomena as present in forms as varied as the mainstream media, daily life, art andContinue reading “Ken Kagami”

Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1974, the artist moved to New Jersey in 1980. They spent their formative years in the United States, living there from age 6 to 30, and graduated from Parsons School of Art and Fine Arts in 1996. The artist returned to Japan in 2004. MADSAKI creates his works based onContinue reading “MADSAKI”

Born in Iwate Prefecture in 1980, currently based in Tokyo. As an artist without formal academic art education, Sato has cultivated his unique methodologies that facilitate the development of new expressions and concepts. A distinctive shape, challenging to categorize as either a trapezoid or a parallelogram, has been consistently depicted in his works for overContinue reading “Masaki Sato”

Midori Arai, born in Ibaraki, Japan in 1992, graduated from Tokyo Zokei University in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts. She completed a master’s degree in oil painting at Kyoto University of The Arts in 2022. Arai has developed the infinite possibilities of paintings by applying to finite physical acts and gestures. TheContinue reading “Midori Arai”

Mioka Matsuura uses a variety of media to create her works, such as making paintings based on stuffed animals that she has made herself. She matches her own sensibilities with the accidental phenomena created by the materials, incorporating the process of reconciling, disintegrating, and reconstructing the unconscious world, and employs symbolic information expressed by otherContinue reading “Mioka Matsuura”