Yoshitomo Nara
Japanese · b. 1959 · Painter, Printmaker
Yoshitomo Nara 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… (Wikipedia)
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Yoshitomo Nara 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. 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."
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In the collections of
Aichi Prefectural Museum of ArtMiddelheim MuseumMori Art MuseumMuseum of Contemporary Art TokyoMuseum of Modern ArtNational Museum of Art, OsakaNational Museum of World CulturesSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtThe National Museum of Modern ArtTokyo Photographic Art MuseumToyota Municipal Museum of ArtArt Institute of Chicago
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Also known as Nara Yoshitomo, Y. Nara
Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), MoMA collection data (CC0). See data sources & attribution.