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Yoshitomo Nara (Born 1959) is active/lives in New York, California / Japan, Germany. Yoshitomo Nara is known for Mod child figurative, animal.
Yoshimoto (some spell it Yashitomo) Nara was born in 1959 in Hirosaki, Japan and has exhibited extensively in the United States as well as Japan and European countries.
Using a style combining the effect of Japanese prints and Pop Art cartoons, he paints solitary, doll-like children to comment upon the decline of society, East and West. To Nara, children symbolize a world marked by confusion and anxiety about an unknown future. Since 1988, he has divided his time between Japan and Germany, where he studied art. He sees himself as a voluntary exile. Because art schools and museums were conservative in Japan, Nara, also a sculptor working in a similarly simplistic style, studied contemporary art on his own there as a young man, eventually seeking exhibitions abroad.
He describes his earliest years as a "latch key child," coming home alone to his family's empty house. Nara's themes of childhood mixed with irony take their s ...
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Date
Author
Color
Art in America
Review of Exhibitions
November 2005
Editors, Art in America
Yes
Art & Auction
Corporate Culture
December 2004
Chen, Aric
Yes
Art & Auction
Gallery Calendar
November 2004
Editors, Art + Auction
No
ARTnews
Art Market-How the Spring Auctions
July 2004
Kinsella & Gleadell
Yes
ARTnews
Waiting for an A+ Picture
March 2004
Falkenstein, Michelle
Yes
Art & Auction
marketfile
November 2003
Editor, Art & Auction
Yes
Art in America
Review of Exhibitions
May 2003
Editors, Art in America
Yes
Art & Antiques
The Top 100 Collectors in America
March 2002
Bryant, Kathy; Cathy Byrd
Yes
1 Book References for Yoshitomo Nara
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2005
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
479
No
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