Kentaro Okawara

大河原 健太郎

Lives and works in Seoul, Korea
Since graduating from the College of Arts, Tokyo Polytechnic University in 2011, Okawara has been exhibited internationally and had some art books published and making products. Okawara's work explores his long held belief that making art is an expression of love and a means to connect with each other. Each piece presents a surreal yet familiar cast of characters; a cocktail of humans, creatures, and personified objects interact with each other in intimate and bizarre ways to create a world that can be endearingly engaged by all. Within Okawara’s world of bright colours and stylised motifs he addresses the importance of direct eye-to-eye and face-to-face communication. In this digital age where we seem to exchange our thoughts and feelings primarily over the Internet, Okawara’s work encourages us to think again, cast aside our differences and re-connect to our shared humanity.

Mayumi Yamase

山瀬 まゆみ

Mayumi Yamase is an artist living and working in Tokyo. Her work whether a drawing, a painting or in 3D-form is composed of colours and organic forms. How the space is occupied with these colours and shapes helps to unfold unexpected forms organically grown like a plants and living like organs and a unique dialogue between them.

Mayumi has exhibited pieces in London, Singapore and numerous times in throughout Japan alongside commissioned work for Comme des Garçons.

UND

ウンド

A dynamic art duo composed of SHINKNOWNSUKE and FACE, known for their elusive and experimental style. Together, they channel creative freedom and vent their daily stresses through themed projects like "Crash Test" and "Imagine", always in pursuit of new artistic expressions. Over the years, they’ve collaborated with brands such as BEAMS, Salomon, and adidas, and hold occasional exhibitions to showcase their evolving work.

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Will Sweeney

ウィル・スウィーニー

Born in London, UK, and deeply influenced by the punk, hip-hop, and rave culture of the 1980s, Will began his artistic journey creating strange, horror and science fiction influenced drawings and comics from a young age. After earning an MA in Illustration from the Royal College of Art in 1998, he began working as an illustrator, designing flyers for clubs, making T-shirt graphics and editorial work for fashion magazines such as The Face and Dazed & Confused. Will’s breakthrough came in 2003 with the group exhibition 'Where Is Silas' at Parco Gallery, Tokyo. leading to numerous solo and group shows across global art capitals like Tokyo, London, LA, Madrid, and Paris. He is known for his comic series 'Tales From greenfuz' and the accomponying toys. He’s also collaborated with renowned brands such as Medicom Toy, Porter, Undercover, Stella McCartney, and STUSSY, creating a diverse range of products from collectible figures, animations and record sleeve designs to fashion items like T-shirts and lamps.

Since moving to Tokyo in 2021, Will's work has evolved into a more personal, metaphysical phase, exploring areas of the subconscious, dream narratives and notions of mortality within a dark pop culture framework and experimenting with various drawing and painting mediums.

Yabiku Henrique Yudi

ヤビク・エンリケ・ユウジ)

Born in 1997, São Paulo, Brazil, Yabiku moved to Japan at the age of 11. He studied fashion design at Bunka Fashion College, Tokyo, and later began making collage as a way of self-expression from 2017.
His work challenges the viewers tendency in seeking binary narratives of love and hate, order and chaos, beauty and distort. By combining graphic images and real-world material (metals found in the street and industrial spaces, initially distant from the sphere of art), he obscures the line between artwork and consumer good, entertainment and utility, greater meaning and operative function. With a unique style of expression led by intuition, he is taking Tokyo’ s Art and Fashion scene by storm. Yabiku is currently expanding the scope of his expression to include object creation and spatial installation, in addition to collage.