Yoshitomo Nara: Life is Only One

Life is Only One is Yoshitomo Nara is the first major solo exhibition of the renowned Japanese artist in Hong Kong.
The exhibition presents a journey into Nara’s open-ended interpretation of life through a rich selection of paintings, sketches, photographs, sculptures and mixed-media installations covering a broad range of his oeuvre in the past two decades.
The exhibition title comes from one of Nara’s paintings, Life Is Only One! A provocative declaration – but of what? Nara invites Hong Kong visitors to give in to their imaginations and engage in a dialogue with the artist’s work and his world.

Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959, Hirosaki) 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 currently lives and works in Japan and Germany.
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 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.
He is represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York, and by Blum & Poe in Los Angeles.