YOSHITOMO NARA (b. 1959)
Nara’s wide-eyed, childlike characters—often wielding knives or scowling—convey innocence laced with rebellion. Influenced by punk rock, manga, and loneliness, his deceptively simple figures express complex emotional tension. A cult figure in contemporary art, his works are housed in the MoMA, LACMA, and the Aomori Museum of Art in Japan."The children I draw are not always cute; they’re honest, sometimes angry."
ATEMPORAL CULTURE