Neinei

ネイネイ

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\u0026#39;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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Solo Exhibitions

2024
  • "Solo Exhibition" Hakken-Do (Tokyo/Japan)
2022
  • "Solo Exhibition" Tokyo American Club (Tokyo/Japan)

Group Exhibitions

2026
  • "Art Parade" Daimaru Kyoto Store (Kyoto/Japan)
2025
  • "Art Art Art" Matsuzakaya Nagoya Store (Aichi/Japan)
  • "Haikara Color" Ginza Mitsukoshi (Tokyo/Japan)
2023
  • "Fine Art Collection" Matsuzakaya Nagoya Store (Aichi/Japan)
  • "sign of new culture" artglorieux gallery of tokyo (Tokyo/Japan)
  • "EYES_Portraits Show by Emaeging Artists_Vol.2" MEDEL GALLERY SHU (Tokyo/Japan)
  • "Artists Shaping the Era" artglorieux gallery of tokyo (Tokyo/Japan)
2022
  • "Iime Fukurame in TOKYO" Matsuzakaya Ueno Store (Tokyo/Japan)
2021
  • "KENZAN2021" Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (Tokyo/Japan)

Art Fairs

2024
  • "Infinity Japan" (Taipei/Taiwan)
  • "Osaka Art Design" Daimaru Umeda Store (Osaka/Japan)
  • "Kobe Art Marche" Kobe Meriken Park Oriental Hotel (Kobe/Japan)
2023
  • "ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA" Marine Messe Fukuoka (Fukuoka/Japan)
  • "art stage OSAKA" Grand Cube Osaka (Osaka/Japan)
  • "Xavier Art Fest" (Manila/Philippines)

Awards

2026
  • 82nd GENTEN Exhibition, Flat Art Division, Newcomer Award, Associate Member Recommendation
2022
  • KENZAN2022 (Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre) IAG Award

2021
  • Independent Tokyo2021 Special Jury Prize (Jiro Miura Award)

2019
  • Japan Book Design Award, Student Division, Book Jacket "Sangetsuki" (Paperback), Gold Prize


Exhibition

Nei nei / Masuda Yuuna Duo Exhibition

Nei nei / Masuda Yuuna Duo Exhibition "What Is Cute"

2026.06.05 Fri -06.14 Sun 開催中

Yuuna MasudaNeinei

AND COLLECTION Contemporary Art is pleased to announce "What Is Cute," a duo exhibition by Nei nei and Yuuna Masuda. ...