SHUUN
A world of creatures in imagination. SHUUN creates images with creatures and their world hiding in daily/non-daily life as motifs. Audience is strongly attracted by the world created with overwhelming use of variou...
A world of creatures in imagination. SHUUN creates images with creatures and their world hiding in daily/non-daily life as motifs. Audience is strongly attracted by the world created with overwhelming use of variou...
Based in Sapporo, artist Yasuhiro Kasami won the award of Tokyo Wonder Wall 2012 and is spreading his activity all over Japan. After the exhibition at Wonder Site Hongo in June, his solo exhibition “LIGHT-CONE AND OTH...
A Japanese inspired mask resembling a rabbit, navy blue short tights, and an apron – those are his trademarks. The artist who does Judo as a performance, gives spoken performances like “Tora san” in the movie “Otokowa...
Have you ever lost track of time staring at the anthers of flowers, the veins of leaves, or even bugs? The jewelry from Murder Pollen is not only beautiful but also expresses an attraction to nature in a detailed and ...
Artist Mimona Ishikura translates her emotions directly into her work while grappling with conflicted feelings and questions regarding art. The artist, who is based in Sapporo, but has started exploring a wider world ...
Masao Okabe’s works are not like such contemporary art we have seen that consist of spectacular installations or overwrought concepts. He creates extremely rich, painstaking work, with surfaces that people can touch w...
Ryoko Suzuki, an artist from Hokkaido, win popularity not only in Japan, but also in abroad. Her works remind us humanism and make us to reconsider original ourselves somehow. Besides to her past works, her new exhibi...
Painting to spacial art. Toshihiko Shibuya, an artist based on Sapporo, Hokkaido, creates artwork wishing for a resonance to a place. He is one of the few artists who shows new art expressions through a theme on th...
Looks familiar and nostalgic, but still original. That is what studio prepa's product is all about. Using a glassblowing technique originated in Sweden and Italy, studio prepa cherishes their thoughts for forms and th...
Go Yayanagi was born in Obihiro, Hokkaido in 1933. Since the 1960s he has staged a wide range of individual exhibitions and gained international fame. In the 1970s, he started expanding his activities from 2D to 3D an...
"Doraemon has everything explaining our life." Ryo Kaneko an Artist who takes his communication difficulties and turns them into assets through his art work by performing as Nobi‐ANIKI. You can see the active devel...
With the theme of “Visualization of the momentum”, Kiyoshi Takahashi is a Sapporo-based artist, exploring his installation works and performance art that combines aspects of manga, calligraphy and music. His bold and ...
An artist who approaches to space with imagination from materials. Jet black in the Japanese letter uses 2 characters: one means black and the other means lacquer (Urushi). Using lacquer as the material, Nozomi...
My House 2 / 2006 / FIX MIX MAX! at Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo) Ikuko Imamura is an artist who uses light, shadows, and darkness to showcase a tiny bit of unforgettable everyday happenings that re...
The cover design for April was created by Kaori Kojima aka KOJIKO, formally a member of harmonica bldg. and now a solo graphic designer based in Hokkaido. She has been working on posters, ad visuals and logo designs, ...
An artist communicating with nature through sculpture. Photo: Yuko Takeyama Kineta Kunimatsu works in the atelier in Shiraoi located about 90 kilometers south of Sapporo and on the middle coastline between Tomakoma...
Many images flashback through my head as I listened to their music for the first time. A Sapporo based band, Scam Circle, was formed in 2006, with lead music composer, Koji Mizuno, a drummer, Masaki Hori, and a bassis...