TAKU SHINYAMA
Taku Shinyama was born in Tottori in 1975, and he grew up in Tokyo and Saitama. In 2000, he won the “00 Excellence Award” at a contest called: “The Challenge to Modern Japanese Black Ink Painting. He earned a degree from the Graduate School of Japanese Painting at Tama Art University in 2001 and exhibited his graduate work at Art Museum Ginza. Then, starting with his Moe Pictures from the Microcosm Exhibition in 2002 at Kyobashi Gallery, he began exhibiting his work at various department stores and art fairs. He is attracting the attention of collectors, primarily in Asia, such as in Taiwan and Hong Kong. It looks like his work will continue to gather more interest as time goes on.