Takeru Amano

Born in Tokyo in 1977, Takeru Amano is a painter and sculptor living and working in Japan. Son of the famous illustrator Yoshitaka Amano, Takeru Amano was immersed in the art world from an early age. In a quest for distinction, he travelled to New York in 1997 to study printmaking. This journey had a profound influence on his style, giving it a modernity based on a fusion of art-historical clichés and Japanese pop culture. Working with an explosive palette, he defends simplicity both in his execution and in the message he conveys, which he believes is specific to the viewer. His work has been shown worldwide, including in galleries in Tokyo, Beijing and Hong Kong, as well as on several occasions in Paris, where he was recently exhibited at the Asia Now 2023 fair.