Photo by Guillaume Ziccarelli

簡歷

Mr.以村上隆弟子的身分,與村上並肩同行了15年以上。

他的畫風主要是持續專注地將當今日本的住宅區中,隨處可見的可愛少女繪製成動畫風格或電玩角色風格。

動畫式的繪畫,也是可以用繪畫或是塗鴉的方式畫在畫布 或紙上的……Mr.的存在本身成了一種免死金牌,在日本的Pixiv等網路社群中,追隨Mr.的創作者正急遽增加中。

最近日本出現的「CHAOS LOUNGE」的展示方法,即是受到Mr. 所開發出來的形式「在自己的骯髒房間裡遍地都是作品」的強烈影響。

曾是存在於的小眾裡的他,現在已經要跳出來成為主流了。

經歷
1996 創形美術專門學校(東京)畢業
1969 出生於CUPA
個展
2019 「A Call To Action」Musée Guimet(Paris)
「Mr.’s Melancholy Walk Around the Town」Galerie Perrotin (Paris)
2018 「People misunderstand me and the contents of my paintings. They just think they are nostalgic, cute, and look like Japanese anime. That may be true, but really, I paint daily in order to escape the devil that haunts my soul. The said devil also resides in my blood, and I cannot escape from it no matter how I wish. So I paint in resignation.」Galerie Perrotin (Hong Kong)
2017 「FLOATING IN THE AIR IN THE VICINITY OF A CONVENIENCE STORE」Lehmann Maupin Gallery (Hong Kong)
2016 「Tokyo, the City I Know, at Dusk: It’s Like a Hollow in My Heart」Galerie Perrotin (Seoul)
「Sunset in My Heart」Lehmann Maupin Gallery (NY)
2015 「lost -Mental sketch modified-」Hidari Zingaro (Tokyo)
2014 「Live On: Mr.'s Japanese Neo-Pop」Seattle Art Museum (Seattle)
2013 「Sweeet!」Galerie Perrotin (Hong Kong)
2012 「Metamorphosis: Give Me Your Wings」Lehmann Maupin Gallery (NY)
2010 LeeAhn Gallery(Daegu, Seoul)
2008 「Nobody Dies」Galerie Perrotin (Paris), Lehmann Maupin Gallery (NY)
2007 Lehmann Maupin Gallery (NY)
2006 「Mr.」Musée d'Art Contemporain (Lyon)
「Nin - stealth」Galerie Perrotin (Miami)
2004 「ISSEY x Mr.」ISSEY MIYAKE by Naoki Takizawa (Tokyo)
「Thank You for Your Hard Work」Tomio Koyama Gallery (Tokyo)
2003 Galerie Perrotin (Paris)
2001 「Venus#2」Vedanta Gallery (Chicago)
團體展
2019 「Bishojo: Young Pretty Girls in Art History」Museum of National Taipei University of Education (Taipei)
2018 「Megane to Tabisuru Bijutsuten」AOMORI MUSEUM OF ART (Aomori), IWAMI ART MUSEUM (Shimane), Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art (Shizuoka)
2017 「The Doraemon Exhibition Tokyo 2017」Mori Arts Center Gallery (Tokyo)
「Yokohama Triennale 2017 "Islands, Constellations and Galapagos"」Yokohama Museum of Art (Yokohama)
2015 「Animamix Biennale」Daegu Art Museum (Daegu)
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