Taichi Nakamura
Japan
Japanese artist Taichi Nakamura, born in 1982 in Hiratsuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, graduated from the Department of Painting at Tokyo Zokei University in 2008. His formative years unfolded in the early 1980s, a period marked by Japan's robust economic growth and vibrant societal energy, reaching the pinnacle of the economic bubble. Nakamura was born into an upscale kimono shop-owning family, and his childhood was steeped in memories of luxury and prosperity. Even as a child, he could feel the atmosphere of that era, as if basking in the glittering summer sun of the bubble era.