About

Naoshi is a Los Angeles based artist from Japan. She uses colorful sand to create surreal people in fantastical or real world settings, that inspire a more whimsical perspective of life. She has written a book and has exhibited her work extensively in the US, Europe and Asia. https://nao-shi.com

◆Museum
・2016　Hey! Ho! Let's Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk…Queens Museum (NY, USA)
・2009　URBAN SUPERSTAR Show…Museo Madre (Napoli, Italy)

◆Selected Art fair

・2016　ART KAOHSIUNG…City Suite Kaohsiung Hotel (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
・2016　ART TAICHUNG…Millennium Hotel Taichung (Taichung, Taiwan)
・2014　ART OSAKA 2014…HOTEL GRANVIA OSAKA (Osaka, Japan)
・2013　YOUNG ART TAIPEI…SHERATON GRANDE TAIPEI HOTEL (Taipei, Taiwan)
・2012　Daegu art fair…EXCO (Daegu, Korea)
・2012　ART OSAKA2012…HOTEL GRANVIA OSAKA (Osaka, Japan)
・2009　ULTRA002…SPIRAL (Tokyo, Japan)
・2009　Kunstart09…Messe Bozen (Bolzano, Italy)
・2007　Art Shanghai 2007…Shanghai Mart (Shanghai, China)

◆Selected Exhibition

・2017　Life is a circus!…Pygmy Hippo Shoppe&Pygmy Big Top (Los Angeles, USA)
・2017　Window Display Show…Hannah Zakari (Scotland, UK)　　
・2016　TEZUKA OSAMU Deput 70th …Gallery Nucleus (Los Angeles, USA)
・2016　SUPER KAWAII FOOD SHOW…Japan LA (Los Angeles, USA)
・2015　So Youn Lee+ Justine Lin+ Mayuko Nakamura+ Naoshi…La Luz de Jesus Gallery

(Los Angeles, USA)
・2015　Window Display Show…PIQ Design Store in Grand Central Terminal Station

(New York, USA)
・2014　HAND MADE KOREA FAIR 2014…COEX(Seoul, Korea)
・2014　La Piccola Bellezza…Hangar Tattoo Studio (Rome, Italy)
・2013　HELLO DESIGN MY ! GIANT MANGO…Pier-2 Art Center（Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
・2013　Urban Superstar Festival 2013…Galleria d’Arte Provinciale Santa Chiara

(Cosenza, Italy)
・2012 　Taste FESTIVAL 2012…Direktorenhaus Belin (Berlin, Germany)
・2012 　A close-up on Pop Surrealism and Urban Art…Miomao gallery (Perugia, Italy)

・2011　SWEET STREETS…WWA Gallery（Los Angeles, USA)
・2011　Qpop presents『KAMEN RIDER VS SUPER SENTAI…The Japanese American

Cultural and Community Center (Los Angeles, USA)　

・2010　SANRIO50th Anniversary "Small gift Los Angeles"…Barker Hangar

(Los Angeles, USA)

・2010　Manga Girls Inspiration…Junie Moon Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

・2009　ART SHOW "Birth2"…Omotesando Hills (Tokyo, Japan)
・2009　Strange Bedfellows…COMPOUND gallery (Portland, USA)
・2009　URBAN SUPERSTAR Show…Museo Madre (Napoli, Italy)

・2008　ILLUSTRATIVE08…Messehallen Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland)
・2008　festival della creativita…Fortezza da Basso (Firenze, Italy)

・2008　PINK ATTITUDE ITALY TOUR…Becool Gallery(Rome), GIGLIO(Parermo),

JSIGN(Napoli)

・2007　egotismo…elaboratorio gallery (Mexico)

・2007　Ikumi Nagasawa＋Naoshi"Private"…Refined Nest Gallery (Shanghai, China)

・2006　POP'N FLOP'N…THE REFRESH CENTER (France)