Nara Yoshitomo was born in Aomori Prefecture in 1959. He graduated from the Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts, Department of Fine Arts, majoring in oil painting, and completed a master's course at the same university's graduate school. He moved to Germany in 1988 and enrolled in the Düsseldorf Art Academy. After graduating from the academy, he moved to Cologne in 1994, where he lived until returning to Japan in 2000. It was during this period that he began to paint works depicting children with defiant gazes, which have become known as Nara's signature images. During this time, he also had more opportunities to hold solo exhibitions in Japan and Europe, gradually drawing attention to his work. In 2001, his first full-scale solo exhibition in Japan, "I DON'T MIND, IF YOU FORGET ME," began at the Yokohama Museum of Art and toured five locations around the country, attracting considerable attention both at home and abroad.
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Since 2003, he has collaborated with Osaka creative unit graf, and has produced a series of works in which he exhibits his artworks in sheds made of recycled materials. In 2006, he held the exhibition "A to Z" at the Yoshii Shuzo Brick Warehouse in Aomori Prefecture, which was the culmination of his work. Since then, he has continued to produce artworks energetically. In addition to the children in his early works, who have sharp, defiant looks, he has also begun to draw children with calm expressions, looking back at him with warm eyes. In 2017, he held the exhibition "for better or worse" at the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art in Aichi Prefecture, where he spent his student days, which displayed his previous works as well as various items that had nurtured his sensibility before he aspired to become an artist, such as records, books, photographs, dolls, and miscellaneous goods that he had collected. In 2018, he opened his own art museum "N's YARD" in Tochigi Prefecture, where he exhibits unpublished works.
