Nana Funo
Japan
Nana Funo was born in 1983 in Shizuoka Prefecture. She graduated from Osaka University of Arts, Japan (BFA) in 2006 and completed the Graduate Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan (MFA) in 2008. She currently lives and works in Shizuoka.
Nana Funo’s works present a unique, multi-layered view of the world, conceived through interweaving subjects and landscapes from her own imagination and stories she had indulged in since her childhood with richly nuanced and variegated artistic touches.
Viewers are no doubt taken by surprise with the visual effects of Funo’s pictorial space achieved solely through use of acrylic paint –a glossiness almost reminiscent of ceramic and sculptural surfaces, and meticulous brushstrokes painted in a manner akin to embroidery or delicately woven fabric.
Her major solo exhibitions include “Born for This” (Tomio Koyama Gallery Tennoz, Tokyo, 2024), Takashimaya Osaka 6F Gallery Next (Osaka, Japan 2023), Meets by NADiff, SHIBUYA PARCO (Tokyo, Japan, 2020) and “No Matter How Many Times I Touch, It is Still Far Away” (Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2019).
Her major group exhibitions include “NEW NATURE” (PATERSON ZEVI, London, UK, 2020), “The Way of Painting” (Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2014) and “VOCA 2009: The Vision of Contemporary Art” (The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 2009).
Funo’s works are housed in the collections of Aman Tokyo, The JAPIGOZZI Collection, MONTBLANC and GBU Japan, Takahashi Collection and Takamatsu City Museum of Art.