Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Nagakute Aichi, Japan
Known for
sculpture, painting
Notable work
Knife Behind Back (2000), Sorry, couldn't draw left eye! (2003), Straight Jacket (2000), Sprout the Ambassador (2001)[1]
Awards
Award for Artist, Nagoya, Japan, 1995
Yoshitomo Nara (奈良 美智, Nara Yoshitomo, born 5 December 1959 in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese artist. He lives and works in Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, though his artwork has been exhibited worldwide. Nara has had nearly 40 solo exhibitions since 1984.[2] His art work has been housed at the MoMA and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). His most well-known and repeated subjects are "big-headed girls" with piercing eyes, who one Nara scholar describes as having "childlike expressions [that] resonate with adult emotions, [their] embodiment of kawaii (cuteness) carries a dark humor, and any explicit cultural references are intertwined with personal memories."[3][4]
^Holzwarth, Hans W. (2009). 100 Contemporary Artists A-Z (Taschen's 25th anniversary special ed.). Köln: Taschen. pp. 410–412. ISBN 978-3-8365-1490-3.
^"San Jose Museum of Art". 2009-12-23. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
^Koon, Yeewan (2020). Yoshitomo Nara. Phaidon. p. 6. Archived from the original on 2022-06-18. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
^Koon, Yeewan (2016). "The Artist Behind the Camera: Yoshitomo Nara". Once in a Life – Encounters with Nara. Asia Society. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
YoshitomoNara (奈良 美智, NaraYoshitomo, born 5 December 1959 in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese artist. He lives and works in Nasushiobara...
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Japanese football player YoshitomoNara (born 1959), Japanese artist Zaira Nara (born 1988), Argentine model and TV host Ula Nara Duoqimuli, Empress consort...
Yamada". TheIndustry.fashion. Retrieved 2024-03-19. "Stella McCartney and YoshitomoNara Put Activism At The Centre Of Their Second Collaboration | SHOWstudio"...
2002 (Rainbow) 虹 2002 Argentine Hag (with drawings and pictures by YoshitomoNara) アルゼンチンババア 2002 2002 Also published in English by RockinOn (Cloak of...
artists such as Shiko Munakata, Shuji Terayama, YoshitomoNara, and Tohl Narita. The Aomori Dog by Yoshimoto Nara has become the museum's iconic symbol. Artists...
China Morning Post. 2020-07-02. Retrieved 2020-08-03. "Japanese artist YoshitomoNara Dominates Hong Kong Joint Auction | Auctions News | THE VALUE | Art...
Other works are more concerned with a fear of growing up. For example, YoshitomoNara's work often features playful graffiti on old Japanese ukiyo-e executed...
installation. Though less well known internationally than Takashi Murakami or YoshitomoNara, he is recognized in Japan as one of the preeminent figures of Japanese...
of Fine Arts and Music. He is a former student of YoshitomoNara (born 1959). He joined Yoshitomo in 1997 in an exhibition entitled “Over the Rainbow”...
"Schulz museum honors 'Peanuts'". DeseretNews.com. 28 September 2007. "YoshitomoNara". Archived from the original on 2005-09-23. Retrieved 2005-08-07. "Kaikai...
album at his house. The album cover was designed by Japanese artist YoshitomoNara. Also in the liner notes, Sweet described the album's title as an attempt...
in the world. The second most expensive bike ever sold was the Trek YoshitomoNara Speed Concept that was sold for $200,000. Since the Butterfly Trek Madone...
by floods and tornadoes the previous year. In 2011, White ghost by YoshitomoNara was installed in the park, after being exhibited in New York, as public...
professional go player Mitsuyo Maeda, judo wrestler Juji Nakada, evangelist YoshitomoNara, modern artist Takanohana Kenshi, sumo wrestler Shūji Terayama, modern...
Louis Vuitton: The Birth of Modern Luxury, The Diary of Frida Kahlo, YoshitomoNara: Nobody's Fool, The Wes Anderson Collection, The Selby Is in Your Place...
CA, who have worked with Ellsworth Kelly, Isamu Noguchi, Jeff Koons, YoshitomoNara, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Isermann, Christian Moeller, Doug Aitken, Rob...
Nate (2018-01-10). "Pace Gallery to Open Second Hong Kong Space With YoshitomoNara Show During Art Basel". ARTnews. Retrieved 2018-07-13. Vogel, Carol...
realtokyo.co.jp. Retrieved 2017-11-11. "Response from YoshitomoNara to the article "YoshitomoNara as a Businessman"". art-it.asia. Retrieved 2017-11-11...
that includes both mainstream and underground artists. Baseman cites YoshitomoNara, Takashi Murakami, and the illustrator William Joyce as contemporaries...
from artists both inside and outside of Japan, including Yoko Ono, YoshitomoNara, and Jeong-Hwa Choi. "About". Towada Art Center. Retrieved 2017-01-14...
living and working in the Tokyo art world. During that time he met YoshitomoNara and Takashi Murakami. Blum and Poe visited Murakami's studio in Toyama...
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