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Yoshitomo Nara (Japanese, b.1959) is a Contemporary artist best known for his Neo-Pop paintings featuring the innocent motifs and buoyant style of children?s books and comics. Nara?s most frequent subjects are wide-eyed, cartoonish children and animals, executed in a flattened, economical style. Often, snippets of Japanese, English, or German text float within the compositions. Nara is also a prolific sculptor and draughtsman. He has had solo exhibitions at Blum & Poe in Santa Monica, CA; Chicago?s Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, IL; Pace Prints in New York, NY; the Asia Society Museum in New York, NY; and many other institutions. Nara currently lives and works in Japan and Germany, and is represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York, and by Blum & Poe in Los Angeles.http://www.artnet.com/artists/yoshitomo-nara/biography