Mitsuru Ichikawa, 1983 | Magic Realism painter

Mitsuru Ichikawa 市川光鶴 is a Japanese painter, born in Nagoya-shi, Aichi Prefecture.

She has been aspiring to be a painter since he was a child, and has been exhibiting mainly at group public exhibitions.

He completed the oil painting course at Musashino Art University Graduate School of Art and Design.

Currently is an associate member of the Independent Art Association.

Chiaki Okada | Children's book illustrator

Chiaki Okada / 岡田 千晶 is an illustrator and author of children’s books from Osaka, Japan.

Her gentle, calming artwork was selected at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 2010 and she has since illustrated books by authors from around the world.

Her first picture book published in English, For All the Stars Across the Sky, was released in 2019. She lives in Japan.

Keita Morimoto / 森本啓太, 1990

Keita Morimoto was born in Osaka, Japan.

He worked in Toronto from 2006-2022 and now lives in Tokyo.

Morimoto graduated from Ontario College of Art and Design (now OCAD University) in 2012 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.

Morimoto is best known for his cityscapes and portraits painted with theatrical light that is reminiscent of Rembrandt and Edward Hopper.

Shinji Nakabori, 1956 | Figurative painter

Shinji Nakabori is a visual artist who was born in Tokyo, Japan.

He graduated from Japanese Painting Department at Tama Art University in 1978.

He also studied at the Art Art Students League of New York.

Several works by the artist have been sold at auction in Tokyo.

Tanaka Hideo, 1959 | Surrealist painter

Born in Fukuoka, Japan, Hideo began painting in 2009.

In 2011 he received the SHUNYOU Society Award at the 99th Shunyo Exhibition.

His first solo exhibition was in 2012 at Gallery So in Japan.

Simultaneously he kept working as creative director of the advertising agency Frontage Co. and created advertisements for some of the biggest international companies, such as Sony Music, BMW, Budweiser, and Sony.

Saitō Kazu / 斉藤 和, 1960

Born in Kyoto, Japan, Kazu Saitō graduated from Kyoto City Arts University in 1987. He explored Nihonga all the way.

In addition to retaining the fineness of texture, color, form and space in Japanese art, he transforms his aesthetic experiences and the feelings of all things in life into a poetic conception and charming aesthetics with his unique new contemporary image.

"I want to look deeply at the essence of impression, connect the moving tradition to the future, and convey the essence of that impression in a simple visual language".

Il delicato Surrealismo dell'illustratore Akira Kusaka

Akira Kusaka / 日下 明 è un illustratore e grafico freelance con sede a Osaka, in Giappone.

Akira Kusaka lavora solo con Photoshop dove crea tutte le sue opere d'arte.

Crea per pubblicità, copertine di libri, libri illustrati per bambini, web design ed altro ancora.

Shusaku Takaoka, 1977 | Pop Surrealist graphic designer

Japanese🎨 graphic designer Shusaku Takaoka reimagines pop culture and art in a funny and sometimes macabre way.

The artist is inspired by our modern society to juxtapose visuals who form a funny set and sometimes denouncing aspects of an ultra-consumer and over-connected world.

Using famous faces like Mona Lisa🎨, Van Gogh🎨, and Vermeer’s "Girl with a Pearl Earring"🎨, Takaoka merges them onto bodies sporting the latest fashions. The playful project gives a whole new meaning to these painted characters, who now look incredibly modern.