Dmoarts - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Dmoarts. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Hajime Sakurai “Pop Art Soul” -2018 Spring Collection-
Hajime Sakurai presents his graphic works for the first time at Dmo Arts.More »
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Hozuki Kato “In Order to Reach Serendipity”
Paintings of figures inspired by everyday chance encounters and realizations, by Hozuki Kato.More »
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Haruka Kanzaki “Beer, Beer, Beer!”
Tokyo-based illustrator Haruka Kanzaki presents a solo exhibition of works.More »
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Ayaka Nishino “Stance”
An old factory in the corner of some city. A residence with things piled up carelessly. Ayaka Nishino gives life to these ordinary scenes with her oil paintings.More »
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Mayumi Terada “What Can You Do About Love?”
Mayumi Terada illustrates books, magazines, and ads. Her heart-tingling, sweet-and-sour illustrations are perfect for Valentine’s Day season.More »
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Fumitake Uchida “Ukiyoremix”
“Ukiyo-e”, enjoyed by ordinary people in past times, is now often treated as high level art. By adding some subtle humor to it, Fumitake Uchida attempts to update it from the past to the present and turn...More »
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Hevio Tamamura “Pero”
Pero means “dog” in Spanish. With the Year of the Dog coming up in 2018, illustrator Hevio Tamamura presents, cute, scary, and cool canines.More »
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Unknown Asia Photography
Displaying works by six artists from Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, and Taiwan. More »
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Mari Kubota Exhibition
Digmeout related artist Mari Kubota presents a large body of works that have toured Tokyo, Takamatsu and Hiroshima.More »
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“Mile of Smiles” A Two Pipe Problem Letterpress Exhibition
“A Two Pipe Problem” is a letterpress studio based in Walthamstow, East London, run by Stephen Kenny. A working graphic designer, Stephen leads his trained eyes to create a new approach to the antique...More »
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Yohei Sugita “Encounter, Space, Temptation And”
Yohei Sugita, one of the leading young artists of contemporary art, produces collages like landscapes and figures by using dried acrylic paints, and oil paintings by gathering pictures from magazines and...More »
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Chika Tanikawa “Namae Wa Iranai”
Chika Tanikawa’s recent works address the vague area between the real world and the dream world. In this “ambiguous world”, fantastical characters and world views exist within our reality. [Related...More »
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Maiko Kanno “No Roof on Her House”
Sendai resident Maiko Kanno delivers the emotions of young girls with sensitive brushstrokes. An exhibition of new paintings and original goods available for purchase.More »
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Kiwi Semi × Kaya Morishita “Play Small”
A collaboration between the Kiwi seminar students of Kyoto University of Art & Design’s Department of Spatial Design and the artist Kaya Morishita. The students have handled every element of the process,...More »
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Koji Toyoda “Just Take It Easy”
Since his first art exhibition at the international surfing museum in Huntington Beach, California in 1997, Koko Toyoda has continued to create “surf art,” inspired from messages and the state of mind...More »
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Madbunny + Misterwim “Techno Break”
Madbunny from Berlin and Misterwin from London come to Dmoarts this summer! Two artists from a UK art team who create decorations and props for worldwide mega music festivals such as Glastonbury Festival...More »
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Chigusa Aihara “Yumeochi”
Chigusa Aihara is a Tokyo based illustrator and this is her 2nd solo exhibition in 6 years in Osaka. Her works drawn by acrylics, color inks, pens and pencils create a mysterious world with images seemingly...More »
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Chikako TOYA “Floating Reality”
DMO Arts is pleased to present “Floating Reality,” the first solo exhibition by Chikako Toya. Toya’s inspiration comes from moments of ordinal people’s lives, animals, flowers and nature. She draws these...More »
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Yugo. “Girls”
Digmeout artist, Yugo. releases new pieces entitled “Girls” at his solo exhibition held in Osaka, Tokyo and the first time in Fukuoka. In this series, he draws the world of the depressed and sometimes...More »
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Koji Shiroshita + Taco “_Act_Draws”
Individual and collaborative works by Koji Shiroshita and Taco are on show. [Related Event] Reception Party Date: Jun.3 From 18:00 Please refer to the official site for further details.More »
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Chiaki Kohara “Dice and Key”
At her first exhibition in two years at DMO ARTS, Chiaki Kohara presents works displaying a new aggressively bold approach. Original drawings and goods are sold. This exhibition celebrates the gallery’s...More »
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Asari Fukushima “Sunny Spot”
Showing Asari Fukushima’s artworks featuring motifs of cats. In addition to acrylic and rock paint, Fukushima will exhibit works of adorable cats produced by collages of various materials.More »
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Living with Art
Everyday life is at home. Choose stylish furniture for each living space, make your usual life more comfortable, and decorate your favorite art there. Art that is new and can continue to go on for a long...More »
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Hitoshi Kuroki “Fragments of my Wonderland”
Starting with “Ginza” magazine, Hitoshi Kuroki has been proactively producing fashionable portrait illustrations for various fashion and culture magazines. In this exhibition are new watercolor and pencil...More »
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Goma “Lost Memories: Sunlight Began in My World”
The pattern-focused artist Goma began working in primitive pointillist designs seven years ago after a traffic accident. The book “Lost Memories: Sunlight Began in My World” recounts the story of the accident...More »
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Yeah! Meccha Tombo Sensei
Tombo Sensei is a master of the brush stroke, being able to render an image from just three concise lines. Here in his first ever Osaka exhibition, Tombo Sensei takes up the theme of his daughter in all...More »
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Heroshinakyamera “Smile”
An exhibit-sale of original goods and humorous artwork by talented illustrator Heroshinakyamera. [Related Events] Reception Party Date: Sept.10 (Sat) From 18:00 Portrait Painting Event Date:...More »
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Ryosuke Matsuzono “Ringing Dreams”
Book and magazine illustrator, and apparel designer Ryosuke Matsuzono presents an exhibition of works.More »
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Hiroshi Nagai “Penguin’s Vacation Restaurant”
A special exhibition by Hiroshi Nagai, held at Dmoarts and Digmeout Art & Diner. [Related Event] Special DJ Lounge Party Summer Madness “Penguin’s Vacation” Date: Aug.12 (Fri) 16:00-24:00 Location:...More »
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Tantan “Shin”
Contemporary artist Tantan, based in Tokyo, is one to watch, with all artwork selling out at his exhibition last year. His rhythmical, abstract expressions are on show.More »
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Masako Nakahira “Piece of Presence”
Masako Nakahira continues to present work using oil paints as a base to depict various kinds of scenery. At her first show at Dmoarts in almost two years, she will be exhibiting pieces from her two “Mado”...More »
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Buggy’s Art Show
Focusing on illustrations for women’s fashion magazines, designs of CD cases and t-shirts, and live painting, Buggy has become a hot topic at the center of the fashion and pop culture scene. Buggy has...More »
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5th Anniversary Exhibition “The Best of Dmoarts”
Since its opening in May 2011, Dmoarts have held over 120 exhibitions over the course of five years. Continuing to showcase young artists from Osaka to the world as well as planning various projects in...More »
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Unknown Asia 2016
Last year, digmeout and Asian Creative Network (ACN) held the art fair Unknown Asia in Nakanojo, Osaka. Bringing together 120 artists and creative units from Japan and across Asia, the fair attracted some...More »
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Keita Minami “(E)scapeland”
Featuring oil pastel drawings of figures, animals, and scenery alongside digital collage works by Keita Minami.More »
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Chika Tanikawa “Winter’s Melting Point”
Kansai based artist and illustrator Chika Tanikawa presents her second exhibition at Dmoarts, exhibiting drawings of classically elegant girls and landscape depictions that let the viewer experience the...More »
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Junzo Terada “Parts and Poster”
A solo show of posters by leading Kansai illustrator and designer Junzo Terada, that allows visitors a peek into the process behind poster design and feel the joy and energy behind these illustrations....More »
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Bomb Shibuya “Flowers and Form”
Bomb Shibuya presents the tales of flowers, focusing this time on paintings of anemones.More »
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Ayaka Nishino “Single Frames”
The artist Ayaka Nishino studied oil painting at Kyoto Seika University and just graduated last March. Depicting unassuming scenes from daily life that capture her attention, Nishino’s paintings have a...More »
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Yukari Nishi “Index#3”
Kyoto based fine artist Yukari Nishi takes on various themes such as animals, humans, food, and cartoon character costumes, collaging them together in her paintings to create imaginary worlds that lie...More »
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Inori Kito “Ambient Girls”
Nihonga painter and illustrator Inori Kito presents his first ever Osaka exhibition with approximately 30 Nihonga panels decorated with Japanese sumi ink, natural mineral pigments, foil and Japanese “washi”...More »
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Asari Fukushima “Cats Museum”
For his first ever exhibition at Dmoarts, Kansai-based artist Asari Fukushima presents canvas works that feature cats, and use acrylics and natural mineral pigments in addition to various collaged materials....More »
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Heisuke Kitazawa “Love Letters”
A romantic presentation of love letters written with pen and coloured inks alongside goods that are on sale.More »
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Maiko Kanno “Not Together”
The Sendai-based artist Maiko Kanno has attracted the attention of international collectors at annual solo shows in Tokyo and Sendai with her acrylic paintings of young but profoundly expressive girls....More »
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Yoriko Yoda “Dressing Up Shadows”
Presenting the works of Yoriko Yoda.More »
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Yuka Yonemasu “Pinches of Thread”
Illustrations accompanied by short poems by Yuka Yonemasu.More »
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“Rain is Popcorn” A Two Pipe Problem Letterpress Exhibition
“A Two Pipe Problem” is a letterpress studio based in Walthamstow, East London, run by Stephen Kenny. A working graphic designer, Stephen leads his trained eyes to create a new approach to the antique...More »
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Gontiti & Mic *Itaya “Red Guitar”
Visual artist Mic *Itaya is behind the package design of the new live concert CD & DVD by Gontiti, a duo of world music instrumental and acoustic guitarists. In honor of the album’s release, a “remix”...More »
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Ryosuke Matsuzono “Someone’s Memories”
Ryosuke Matsuzono’s art roams fictional memories.More »
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Kana Otsuki “The Shell of Emptiness”
Kana Otsuki continues her illustrations that are built around the image of “chrysalis”.More »
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Ryohei Yamashita “Early Bird”
Ryohei Yamashita consistently produces visual work with the theme of “animated movements” such as the bold movements of runners, swimmers and dancers, and paintings of the horizon at the break of dawn....More »
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P.M. Ken “Crosspoint 2015”
Having worked in fields as diverse as fashion magazines, advertisements, and music, photographer P.M. Ken compiles black and white images of cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, New York, and Paris into single...More »
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Dust City Market
With links to music and fashion, this exhibition showcases Yugo’s psychedelic pop works.More »
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Shoelogical Spacimen
A solo exhibition by Jumpei Kawamura, an artist known for his illustration works. Through his blog, Kawamura introduces his daily drawings of objects that he considers attractive which include not only...More »
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Nekoshowgun “Show at Hive”
Featuring an imaginative collection of illustrations from dressed up insects to animals wearing insects clothing. [Related Event] Live Drawing Event Date: Apr.25 (Sat), Apr.29 (Wed/hol), May.5 (Tues/hol)...More »
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Chiaki Kohara “Kimi ga Tsuki”
Displaying the works of Chiaki Kohara, an artist with growing international recognition who won the “Kusama Yayoi Prize” in the 2007 Uniqlo T-shirt contest. [Related Event] Live Painting by Chiaki...More »
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Mika Nitta “When the First Flower Blooms”
Through her illustrations, Mika Nitta presents the microscopic animistic world in which young girls and living things co-exist. [Related Event] Mika Nitta’s Open Work Date: March.15 Location: Dmoarts Please...More »
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Mayumi Terada “A Love Letter”
A solo exhibition by Mayumi Terada, an illustrator who works and lives in Osaka.More »
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Mucho Yoshiteru Nakamura “Very Match”
An exhibition of collage works by Mucho Yoshiteru Nakamura.More »
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Eimi “Lonely Planet”
An exhibition-sale by Eimi, an illustrator and designer active in Tokyo, of her latest artwork and limited goods such as postcards, zines, iPhone cases, and My First Art series.More »
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Tomohiro Shimizu “Regular Contact From Planet Q”
These oil paintings show unemotional, nearly expressionless people in a variety of melancholy and humor-tinged scenes. More »
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Yo Ueda Exhibition “Animation Inside the Brain”
In Yo Ueda’s artworks in this “Animation inside the brain” exhibition, almost every picture has surrealistic images of people, animals and daily necessities; objects that are common in everyday life. This...More »
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Buggy Exhibition “Divide”
Twenty new illustrations by Buggy are on display.More »
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Type from London Letterpress Art Exhibition
The U.K is an indispensable country to letterpress printing, accomplishing great developments in printing techniques over the Industrial Revolution. With the latest letterpress printing, this skill is...More »
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Chika Tanikawa “Listening to the Voice of Distant Stars”
Kansai based artist Chika Tanigawa’s first Osaka solo exhibition in two years. In addition to new paintings and drawings, her “My First Art” series using the giclee print method is exhibited and on sale....More »
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Momoyon “Momoyon No Nekoyon”
Young creator Momoyon’s drawings of cats, in the form of cards and stickers.More »
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Aki Miyajima Exhibition “The Ambiguity of Memories”
Aki Miyajima’s sensuous illustrations of females derive from the ambiguity of things seen in a dream, such as colors, feelings, and words.More »
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Kana Otsuki “The Ribbon Gets Loose”
Kyoto-born Kana Otsuki is an acrylic painter who expresses modern society using girls as a motif. The ribbon becoming loose represents the girl trying to become an adult while overcoming various struggles....More »
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Chus Anton “Fashion & Day Dream”
Chus Anton is a Spanish-born, up-and-coming photographer based in Paris and active across Europe, Japan, and America. In Japan, he has shown his outstanding talent with catalog shoots for fashion brands...More »
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Ryosuke Matsuzono “Kapakempa”
Striking and surreal color ink drawings by Ryosuke Matsuzono, prize-winner of Heartland Beer Drawing Biennial and Tokyo Wonder Seed. With the theme “Kapakempa,” meaning “September” in Hawaiian, Matsuzono...More »
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Mayumi Shimoda “Imaginary Sightseeing”
Impressive work that captures motifs such as buildings or animals in an original style, using a technique of layering to create an impression of emitting light. This exhibition focuses on her iconic work...More »
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Walnut “Day Dream”
Up-and-coming illustrator Walnut started “Nylon Japan” and has received fast popularity, with illustrations published in many girl’s fashion magazines. In Walnut’s second Osaka solo exhibition, “Day Dream”,...More »
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Masako Nakahira “Border”
Oil landscape painter Masako Nakahira here showcases a wide selection of her series of works including landscapes depicted from a birds-eye view, scenes reflected in ice and nightscapes of windows illuminated...More »
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Yuka Yonemasu “Mismatched Circus”
In addition to her own vibrant illustrations, Yuka Yonemasu has designed covers for books by several popular authors. Her second solo show at Dmoarts presents new works that blur the line between dreams...More »
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Masako Shinya + Kyotaro “The Sparkling Universe”
A show to celebrate the publication of collaborative art book “Karaponpon” by drawing artist Kyotaro and fashion designer Masako Shinya. Alongside the original drawings for the book, original goods made...More »
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“Loop” Dmoarts Group Show
Presenting loop-themed works by eight competing artists chosen for a project currently underway in Osaka. Their recent works will also be on display and for sale. More »
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Mio Matsumoto Exhibition “Nature”
In her second solo show at Dmoarts, Mio Matsumoto presents all-new illustrations including pictures of sweet but slightly venomous women and floral-themed works in time for spring. [Related Event] Opening...More »
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Hikari Yamazaki “The Day I Decided to Keep a Visual Diary”
At the age of 25, looking towards the future and the possibilities of becoming an ordinary middle aged woman, Hikari Yamazaki determined to bring life to each single day with a visual diary for every day...More »
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Mari Amita “Silent Flowers”
Mari Amita mainly does photography for famous musical groups including The Michelle Gun Elephant, Perfume, and Rip Slyme. Her photographs, which have been featured in CD cover art, photo collections, and...More »
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Cicci & Sulley Exhibition
In their first exhibition in 8 years the art unit Cicci & Sulley reunite in a harmonious fusion of work reflecting the passage of time and their growth as women through this.More »
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Re:planter “The Universe”
Re:planter (Takaaki Murase) is a Kyoto-based artist. His “Space Colony” series proposes ideas for busy people residing in small, crowded living spaces. For instance, plants in interior gardens are grown...More »
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Hideo Anze “Framing”
Framing (noun) – framework, structure, planning, composition, conception The artist, Hideo Anze uses Tant paper to make three-dimensional objects, which he shoots with a camera and finally presents...More »
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Yoriko Youda “Servant”
An exhibition of work from Yoriko Youda with the artist present on 11th, 12th and 13th January.More »
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Chiaki Kohara Exhibition
An exhibition of work from Chiaki Kohara.More »
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Nekoshowgun “Appetite for Madness”
An exhibition of new portraits from Nekoshowgun, accompanied by opening reception, live painting sessions and various other events. [Related Events: Live Painting Performance Date: 30th November(Sat)...More »
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Yoshiteru Mucho Nakamura “Zoo Match”
A parade of 150 colorful animals born from a series of collaged match boxes fill the walls of Dmoarts. Each box is decorated with a unique design amongst which visitors may find their perfect match!More »
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Riya “Trick Ster”
The artist riya, born in Chicago in 1985, uses paper-cutting techniques to make magical and folk art-like works with motifs including animals, people, waves, clouds, flames, stars, and eyes. Riya’s first...More »
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Amane Murakami “Hop Over”
Exhibition and sale of art and products from the “Amabro” and “Murasaki” brands by Amane Murakami, who attempts to defy concepts of time and genre.More »
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The Pop Up Store
A pop up store showcasing new apparel brand “hétéroqrom” by Shotaro Aoyama, and the artist Yugo Fujita.More »
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Buggy “Velvet Code”
Exhibition by Osaka-based illustrator, Buggy, who has built up a following in the world of fashion. This exhibition is on the theme of the New York nightclub, Studio 54, a popular haunt of the stars in...More »
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Hiroshi Nagai “Summer Madness”
Exhibition looking back at the career of popular illustrator Hiroshi Nagai behind the artwork for such albums as Eiichi Ohtaki’s “Long Vacation”, including some of his latest projects. Jointly held at...More »
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Kana Otsuki Exhibition
Touring exhibition of illustrator and painter Kana Otsuki, whose portrayals of young girls attempt to reveal their hidden femininity and motherly qualities as they struggle through adolescence. [Image:...More »
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Hikari Shimoda “Alone In Space”
Exhibition of the illustrations of Hikari Shimoda. Shimoda’s depictions of people are characterized by their magical and otherworldly features. This exhibition explores the theme of superpowers, and how...More »
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Hideo Anze “EXIF”
EXIF refers to the information stored in a digital camera, such as its settings at the time a photograph is taken. Hideo Anze crafts 3D objects out of colored paper using analogue methods, yet when shone...More »