Neinei

Born in China in 1993. Graduated from Tama Art University, Graduate School of Art and Design, Doctoral Program in Art. Her artistic practice centers on the concept of "glocalization," researching the Japan-originated "kawaii" culture from a historical and contemporary perspective, exploring the possibilities of its deconstruction and reconstruction. She endeavors to express and disseminate a new "kawaii culture" that transcends language and national borders. Her signature motif, "Tokyo Girl," is a fictional, abstract girl embodying the artist's own ideal, depicted as an entity that originates on the streets of Harajuku and spreads across the globe, continuously transforming with time and culture. In her work, she incorporates the "hikime kagibana" (slit-eye, hook-nose) style of depicting figures, which is associated with ukiyo-e and manga, from the perspective of "transnational illustration," reconstructing contemporary girl imagery into a unique style. She captures the delicate, precarious, flexible, biased, and sometimes cruel complex sensibilities inherent in girls and expresses them as "Tokyo Girl." In recent years, she has also focused on pictorial composition, color, brushstrokes, and line strength, pursuing a contemporary girl image imbued with vitality. She has received awards in animation and book design and actively holds solo and group exhibitions both in Japan and abroad, centered on "transnational illustration."

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