Xu Linlin, AKA ALICE LIN, a freelance artist, was born in 1980, now living in Beijing.
After studying calligraphy, Chinese painting and traditional poems under the famous calligraphy and seal-cutting artist Mr Zhang Gongzhe since childhood, she entered to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1996 to study painting. Her works include gongbi paintings, dessin and 3D installations. Her paintings are delicate and complex at the same time; focusing on the relationship between animals, plants, nature and the human mind, and using surreal elements to reveal a unique, whimsical universe of the mind.
2008 Graduated from the Japanese Course in the department of literature at Silpakorn University. 2012 Graduated from the Master’s program in the Japanese Linguistics Course at Tokyo Gakugei University.
She began creating self-taught contemporary art in 2019.She transmitted her work on Instagram. Then, on the recommendation of an interested art collector, she participated in a group exhibition in Tokyo(Collectors’Collective Vol.1) .This led to more opportunities to work as a contemporary artist both domestically and internationally. Many of the works are colorful, with motifs of pretty girls desperately trying to make a statement.Based on the expressions of Japan’s unique “shoujo manga” and “pop culture,” the company presents a worldview where cuteness and suffocation coexist.Using the technique of appropriation, she expresses a simple yet realistic world. She tries to be “free, fun, and sometimes a little aggressive,” and her themes are based on what she feels in her daily life.
After working as a graphic designer, EMU began his career as a wood carving artist in 2016. He upcycle discarded wood from shipyards, creating unique wooden sculptures and paintings that focus on the relationship between pure forms and space. These works have been exhibited not only in Japan but also in overseas. EMU has collaborated with brands like NIKE and Pokémon, and also worked on character designs for the Osaka Expo 2025 Gas Pavilion.
By blending deformed canvas paintings and sculptures, EMU creates art forms that can be enjoyed both visually and tactilely. In the depiction of the characters, different identities, elements, and shapes coexist and fuse, expressing diversity and inclusivity. The works deliver the idea of unity through the relationship between individual identities and other elements.
Euan Roberts is an artist of mixed Bajan and Scottish heritage based in St-Leonards-on-Sea, UK. His artistic practice is focused on analysing the human condition, distilling feelings of humour, hope, suffering, joy, love and longing via his idiosyncratic cast of animal avatars and visual metaphors. Euan’s work is centred on what it means to be human but humans remain absent from his art. Instead, his visual narrative revolved around a changing cast of yogic bears, drunken crabs, lonely chimps and crying sharks.Euan’s work also examines his journey as a person of colour navigating their way through the art world and wider society. Additionally, motifs like his familiar black bear taking up space in urban environments reference the feeling of alienation that people of colour often feel in art world spaces.
Currently based in San Diego California.He studied art at the Academy of Art San Francisco but before that his father was an artist, who inspired him to pursue his artistic career.
He hopes to inspire people young and old with art. Created from a personal experience and having people relate to his personal struggles is a beautiful thing to witness. His character Happy the clown is a reflection of him and his own view on things.
2009 Graduated from CFA Olivier de Serres (Dijon, France)
He was nourished by these two cultures, which have shaped his aesthetics and his personality. His works are influenced by pop-art, cubism and Italian futurism. The artist has recently explored more personal and intimate subjects depicting portraits, still lifes, landscapes and interiors. To express it visually, Bouillot has developed his own style, using black and white as the only colors in his palette. Light, balance and strong contrasts are his research themes.
The role of the artist is to capture the present, sometimes harmless, to sublimate it and draw from it its deep value, its spirit. should not hinder or slow down creativity, at the risk of confining the creative process in a single and narrow framework: I like a lot of things, and I want to convey this variety through my own vision and creative approach. This is my signature. I am not part of any specific movement, but mine.
Oil painting with thick layer textures, with characters in indistinct and ambiguous boundaries. The work was created through a process of observing an object while applying layers of paint, the traces of which appear on the surface as thick layer textures. The object is recognized while following the brushstrokes and colors with the moving gazes according to the time and the person, and the discrepancy may occurred at that moment as well.
1988 Born in Kyoto 2011 Graduated from Kyoto Seika University, Faculty of Design, Department of Visual Design, Illustration Course Lives in Osaka
While being influenced by old Japanese paintings such as ukiyo-e, Makita creates works that give a sense of modernity and the flow of time from old times to today.
Solo Exhibition 2021 “Ribbon swaying in the wind – Taiwan -” at 綠光 +marüte (Taichung, Taiwan) “Ribbon swaying in the wind – Kagawa -” at MARÜTE GALLERY (Kagawa, Japan) “Ribbon swaying in the wind – Tokyo -” scheduled for December 17-27 at ondo STAY&EXHIBITION (Tokyo, Japan)
2020 “Collect the breath of the changing seasons 2020” at ondo STAY&EXHIBITION (Tokyo, Japan)
2019 “My Heisei” at kara-S (Kyoto, Japan) “Collect the breath of the changing seasons – Summer -” at 綠光 +marüte (Taichung, Taiwan) “Collect the breath of the changing seasons – Autumn -” at MARÜTE GALLERY (Kagawa, Japan) “Collect the breath of the changing seasons – Winter -” at ondo (Osaka, Japan)
Group Exhibition, Art Fair 2021 “Ashimoto ni Yuragu vol.2” at Kyoto Botanical Gardens (Kyoto, Japan) “Lichun – Signal the coming of Spring -” at ondo STAY&EXHIBITION (Tokyo, Japan) “It’ s gonna be AWESOME!” at Artglorieux (Tokyo, Japan)
2019 ILLUSTRATION Exhibition SESSION Vol.00 “Japonisme – The Flower of Silence, the Feast of Profundity -” at DNP Plaza (Tokyo)
2004-07 Kyoto Seika University, Faculty of Manga, Story Manga course
2008 Started working as a fashion photography for brands, Live events.
2013 Spent some time in the United States
2014 Moved to Tokyo to work as a fashion photographer
2019 Started working as a freelance illustrator, mainly creating 1980’s inspired images of female figures
Hime started his career as a photographer in 2008 while working in the fashion industry. Mainly shooting clubs and DJ events, he has worked for various apparel brands such as chari&co, override, PARADOX, and REBERTAS. After moving to the US in 2013, he relocated to Tokyo in 2014 and started as a freelance illustrator in 2019 while working as a photographer in the fashion industry. He continues to showcase his work on Instagram, mainly women with 80s style, and has gained wide public recognition as an artist.
As a teenager, he encountered graffiti in the streets of Hiroshima and was so struck by it that he began working as an artist. He specializes in characters, and the characters that emerge vigorously from his snappy control of spray cans and inspiration appear with an eccentric worldview in his work. He has produced quality production pieces not only for his works but also in sessions with various national and international graffiti writers and artists. In recent years, as well as producing murals, he has continued to expand his field of expression both domestically and internationally by creating art pieces and providing artwork for a variety of artists and brands.
1987 Born in Osaka, Japan 2011 Graduated from Tama Art University (Tokyo) Bachelor of Fine Art, section of oil painting 2017 MA, Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris 2018 Post-diploma, Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
Kanaria uses a technique of thickly applying milky white oil paint on the canvas as a base, and scratching it with a colored pencil before it dries. Her works span a range of stories and myths, flowers and plants, animals and humans, which create a connected world that transcends time and space. She intends to spread out the sensuality of living with satire and humor.
2019 Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication) Deakin Melbourne
Kenz draws his inspiration from the human state of mind, memories and the tension between consciousness and unconsciousness. He is interested in exploring the concept of nostalgia and innocent childhood memories through the depiction of his own personal objects from early life such as rubber bath ducks and walking push toys. His work focuses on the relationship between humans and objects that have the ability to bring back strong visual memories. This is executed through his signature style of vibrant tones and artificial like color palette coupled with kinetic layering lines that provide dynamism.
Born in Osaka, Japan 2018 Graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design(now Kyoto University of the Arts)
The main theme of Kyaraai’s work is “awareness of being in fluctuation”: in an era which people are exposed to experience diverse values through social networking services; we absorb too many things to lose our own firm opinions and characteristics continuously in a sense of floating. And her artistic practice becomes a vessel to tolerate all of these unstable thoughts. Her works are expressed through the painting style of big-eyed characters like those of the girl’s comics she was familiar with as a child, and colors like those of fancy goods. It is important to Kyaraai that the works themselves have the aspect of children’s toys; They are like beads, sparkling and jewel-like but with a cheapness, something that will get dirty or broken one day. Although it is important to keep them clean and tidy, she wants her paintings to fade and become dirty one day. When she thinks about why she is attracted to such things, it might be because she feels that emotion that was close to her when she was living hard in real life before she discovered the Internet; It will keep her heart if she keeps “floating” on it.
マレフは独学の芸術家であり、常に新しい技術と新しい表現を探しています。彼は、ウガンダとモンゴルの困難な地域に文化センターとスケートパークを建設することを目的として、Learn And Skateが管理するプロジェクトである、非営利の「Learn and skate」展の支援に参加し、2015年から現在まで資金を調達しました。 彼はまた、ロンドンのCity Of TalentsとTheWaluso GalleryのVRショーにも参加しました。 彼の芸術は今や世界中に広がっています。
It’s been a decade now that the artist, Malef, spreads his graffitis in his home town of France. packmans , clouds, hearts, and his tag name are common on the different mediums that the artist uses : walls, skate parks, skate boards, bus shelters, extinguishers, canvas, Malef stops at nothing to spread his message of love and peace. His recurring motif of clouds became his signature. They symbolized his lost loved ones and it is in a very poetic manner that he spreads them out in a 1000 ways. For him, clouds express an universal langage, they have different aspects that change with time and each of us can see ourselves reflected in them, no matter who we are and where we are from. His art combines serious subjects with a candid touch thanks to simple and colorful elements. He finds his creativity in what he sees of the real world and transcribes it in an ingenious way in order for us to search that part of childhood that rest deep inside of us. Utopian and art lover, Malef wants to spread a clear and thoughtful message through his painting where always reigns a perfume of innocence.
Malef is an autodidact artist, always looking for new technics and new medium. He participated in help with the non profit “Learn and skate” exhibition and raise fund from 2015 to now, projects managed by Learn And Skate with the purpose of building a cultural center and a skate park in difficult zones in Uganda and Mongolia. He Also participated to the VR show with City Of Talents and The Waluso Gallery in London. His art is now distributed all over the world.
2020 Graduated from Osaka University of Arts, Department of Art Planning
By playing with variation of color shades of acrylic paint with the touch of a painting knife, as well as the abstract expressions created by the mixture colors, I try to express the fluctuation of a girl’s mind and her vivid and colorful world.
1999 Graduated from Osaka University of Arts,Fine Art Department
I have a vague scene of memory. A scene that I would be seeing from a car my mother or father was driving in my childhood. Though I had no idea where we were driving, I still remember I was simply watching scenery of odd buildings and houses in line.
Today, we have access to tremendous amount of information in the Internet. Among them, pictures and movies of landscape to which I have never been remind me of the buildings and houses in my memory. I then get to realize that something in the context of memory and experience is vague and weak.
My works brings unnatural outlines and inaccurate depth to the equivalence, which makes a distance from the equivalence and creates personal scenery. I believe that this new scenery experience is to advance my life.
1999 Born in Saitama 2019 Enrolled in Dept.of Oil Painting, Faculty of Art and Design, Musahino Art University. 2023 Graduated
Mugi Hamada works on the theme of a fictional girl under the context of being a magician, and the people and environment around her. As well as reflecting on her own unintentional experiences as the motifs for her fictional world, she pursues painting as an object and explores new ways of being for her created characters. Recently, she has been working with deformed panels.
Selected Group Exhibition 2021 「199X10」shuuue、Tokyo 「Slumber Party」Meguro rusu、Tokyo 2022 「Shirokane Fabruary」Art Gallery Shirokane 6c、Tokyo 「MINI◯Exhibition」SANSIAO GALLERY、Tokyo 「EXODUS」K11MUSEA GALLERY ASCEND、Hongkong Comtemporary Tokyo Group Exhibition、Tokyo 「Kotohajime」Tachikawa Art Land、Tokyo 2023 「MINI◯Exhibition」SANSIAO GALLERY、Tokyo 「KINOSHO KIKAKU Group Show 2023 vo.2」Contemporary Art-KINOSHOKIKAKU、Tokyo 「199×12 Winter Holiday」Public art creation Gallery Yukihira、Tokyo 2024 「199×12 Winter Holiday」Achievements Exhibition, Gallery Yukihira、Tokyo
Solo Exhibition 2022 「Star gazing from the basement」LIGHT HOUSE GALLERY 、Tokyo 2023 「Entire miniature garden」Art Gallery Shirokane6c、Tokyo 2024 「I can see your face if it is at the night」Contemporary Art-KINOSHOKIKAKU、Tokyo
個展 2024 流るる星々の行方／銀座 蔦屋書店 GINZA ATRIUM（東京） 2023 from beyond the sea／ARTTRIO（シンガポール） 2023 Snow in the Summer／Dorothy Circus Gallery（ロンドン） 2023 雪月風花／宝龍美術館（上海） 2023 幾星霜／美寓meistay（台北） 2022 In Our Nature／Corey Helford Gallery（ロサンゼルス） 2021 金烏玉兎／42 art space（北京） 2020 Through The Seasons／Four You Gallery（オンライン） 2020 あめつち／GalleryYukihira（東京） 2018 Together with the Rain／moon of silence（香港） 2017 The Whisper of Nautre／Long Dicision Gallery（メルボルン）
他グループ展・アートフェアに多数出展
1991 Born in Ibaraki, Japan
2014 Graduated from Yokohama University of Art and Design
Ryoko Kaneta expresses the existence of gods, natural phenomena and other beings beyond human knowledge by depicting girls of various sizes. She has produced many works based on themes such as indigenous Japanese culture and everyday signs in recent years. She has organised ‘199X’ as an attempt to explore character expression in the same era since 2012.
Solo Exhibition 2024 The direction of shooting star / Ginza Tsutaya GINZA ATRIUM(Tokyo) 2023 from beyond the sea／ARTTRIO（Singapore）
2023 Snow in the Summer／Dorothy Circus Gallery（London）
2023 Snow, moon, winds and flowers/Powerlong Museum（Shanghai）
2023 Shrill of a Cicada/Meistay Art Gallery（Taipei）
2022 In Our Nature／Corey Helford Gallery（Los Angeles）
2021 Golden bird, pearl rabbit／42 art space（Beijing）
2020 Through The Seasons／Four You Gallery（Online）
2020 Heaven and earth／GalleryYukihira（Tokyo）
2018 Together with the Rain／moon of silence（Hongkong）
2017 The Whisper of Nautre／Long Dicision Gallery（Melbourne）
Actively participate in other group exhibitions and art fairs.
主な展示
2022 三人展「203040」YOD Gallery、大阪
ART FAIR TOKYO、東京
2021 Gallery Jo Yana online drop、フランス
個展 「FRUSTRATION GIRL」、東京
博多阪急「ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA」、福岡
大丸福岡天神店「ART @ FUKUOKA」、福岡
GALLERIA AVENUE 合同展 “LIVE”
大丸京都店「次世代アートkyoto」、京都
上海廿一当代艺博会 上海展览中心
2020 Gallery Jo Yana group show、フランス
個展「Social Bug」開催、福岡
2019 個展開催、福岡
個展開催、東京
Gallery Jo Yana group show、フランス
Exhibition
2022 ART FAIR TOKYO (Tokyo)
2021 Gallery Jo Yana online drop (February, France)
Solo exhibition “FRUSTRATION GIRL”
(September, Tokyo)
ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA at Hakata Hankyu
(September, Fukuoka)
ART @ FUKUOKA” at Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin Store
(October, Fukuoka)
GALLERIA AVENUE Joint Exhibition “LIVE”
Daimaru Kyoto Next Generation Art Kyoto
(November, Kyoto)
ART 021, Shanghai Exhibition Center
2020 Gallery Jo Yana group show (July, France)
Solo exhibition “Social Bug” (October, Fukuoka)
2019 Solo exhibition in Fukuoka, Japan
Solo Exhibition (Tokyo)
Gallery Jo Yana group show (France)
Influenced by anime and manga culture during boyhood.
In 2017, he started working as an illustrator based in Fukuoka. He creates and presents his works in digital and analog formats. The women with characteristic ennui expressions are a projection of the artist’s own inner self..
コレクション ＆ 受賞歴 2019 ファッションブランド「GUESS」創業一族Marciano家 絵画「Poppin Pine Tree」所蔵 2018 第47回現代芸術国際AU展 DALLMAYR Award、Turner賞 2007 環境省・三井住友主催eco japan cupにて準グランプリ受賞 2005 愛知万博「JAXA宇宙の音楽キャンペーン」バンド「にぎらい」にて審査員特別賞
1978 Born in Kobe, Japan 2001 Graduated from Takarazuka University, B.A. of Fine Art
Collection ＆ Award 2019 「Poppin Pine Tree」 Collected by the founder family （Marciano）of the fashion brand GUESS 2018 DALLMAYR Award, Turner Prize, 「the 47th International AU Exhibition of Contemporary Art」 2007 Runner-up Grand Prix, 「the Eco Japan Cup」 (organized by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan and the financial group Mitsui Sumitomo) 2005 Special Jury Prize，「Aichi Expo – ‘JAXA Space Music Campaign’」 (band ‘Nigirai’)
Mille Miglia, Italy, is where classic car racing developed to its peak. To the city museum of the town, vehicle painter Tomohiro Todoroki was the first Asian artist who held his solo exhibition there.
Todoroki’s work is also in the collection of the National Automobile Museum in Italy. He lovingly depicts local toys that reflect local legends and beliefs and have been loved for years, with wishes for protecting people from bad luck and prosperity of offspring.
Exhibition
2021 Chiba Sogo May campaign
2021 Solo exhibition at Ginza Six
2021 Solo exhibition at MUJI (Portland, USA)
2020,2021 Seven Gods of Good Fortune is offered for the Seibu Shibuya New Year’s Eve and New Year’s campaign -which marks the first unveiling of the Fortune series
2019 Solo exhibition at Museo Mille Miglia, Italy
2018 First Japanese artist whose work to be acquired by the National Automobile Museum (Turin, Italy)
2017 Created a limited edition package for MAJANI, Italy’s oldest chocolate maker
2014 Exhibition of works at Toyota Museum
2013 Solo exhibition at Museo Mille Miglia, Italy
2012 Solo exhibition in Paris (ARTY DANDY)
2011,2012 Exhibited at Retro Mobile (Paris), the world’s largest classic car festival
2002,2003 Exhibited at NY ART EXPO
Award
2003 Special Jury Prize (Okamoto Toshiko Prize) at Geisai museum organized by Takashi Murakami
2009 Winner, Educational/Instructional TV, NewYork festivals, U.S.A.
2011 Graduated from Department of Architecture, St. Thomas University of Osaka
Yok’s works use simple lines and shapes to portray the beauty of ordinary, everyday things. He argues that life does not necessarily have to be luxurious and extravagant; instead, beauty exists in simplicity. Yok’s unique, non-traditional paintings allow viewers to step away from the complexities of art criticism and face the work itself. He works to connect his aesthetic to a variety of mediums, including architecture and fashion.
Graduated from Saga Art College and Osaka Sogo College of Design
When humans first appeared on earth, I think we were just another life form, no different from all other animals and plants. With the birth of communities, languages and cultures, we eventually created a society of distinction, discrimination, and hostility.
We now live in a society with overflowing information, which pertains not only to our own community, language, or culture, and I feel that the profusion of textual and visual images is greatly affecting the way we distinguish and discriminate others from ourselves.
If the information we receive from our surroundings approached zero, what kind of emotions would arise? In such a moment of null, I contend that the distinction between ‘self’ and ‘other’ would disappear, and you would return to a primitive state of existence.
My artistic work is research to substantiate this hypothesis of utilizing the spatial device of ‘NULL’ to approach zero bias.
1999 Born in Shiga Prefecture 2022 Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts, Department of Fine Arts, Oil Painting 2024 completed Master’s degree in Painting, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts
The《Re-touch》series was born out of a fetish for characters seen through digital devices such as touchscreens and VR goggles.The 《Re-touch》 series reveals a desire to touch and have a reciprocal relationship with characters that exist ‘beyond’ digital devices and networks.The superimposition of images of characters that are impossible to ‘touch’ and the surfaces of paintings that are physically destroyed by touch are traces of a desire (violence) for the other side of digital devices that we humans are still unable to control and repeatedly unleash.
Graduated from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2020 with a doctorate degree. Zhang’s works focus on the relationship between Internet aesthetics and cultural consumption, as well as understanding the puzzles and problems of modern life from the perspective of iconography and art history. Her works involve paintings, installations, multimedia images, public art, etc.
