Aya TOSHIKAWA
Representing beautiful female manga characters, Japanese painter Aya Toshikawa, also known as Lady Kawai, has integrated the animation into the world of fine arts. Her artistic language relies on hand drawings and her work produced for the manga magazines leaves that impression, although she uses the oil on canvas technique. Toshikawa succeeded in converting her talent for animation into the world of fine art, creating an international name and recognizable artworks. With babyface characters, Lolita manga and lascivious girls, her provocative subjects seduce the viewer’s imagination……
(Exhibition History after the Biography…)
Representing beautiful female manga characters, Japanese painter Aya Toshikawa, also known as Lady Kawai, has integrated the animation into the world of fine arts. Her artistic language relies on hand drawings and her work produced for the manga magazines leaves that impression, although she uses the oil on canvas technique. Toshikawa succeeded in converting her talent for animation into the world of fine art, creating an international name and recognizable artworks. With babyface characters, Lolita manga and lascivious girls, her provocative subjects seduce the viewer’s imagination.
Manga in Oil
Born in Kobe, Japan, after graduating, Toshikawa began her career in the industry of toys and games. Working as an animator, she designed packages, posters and skateboards. That was the basic for her further work which includes oil paintings representing cartoonish female characters, young girls who are often naked or only in underwear. Her work has been exhibited internationally, in Paris and Amsterdam. Thanks to her Manga theme, it was also not hard to satisfy the taste of the home audience. Very popular both in Japan and in the rest of the world, manga, the Japanese comics, have they own recognizable style. Although each manga artist’s technique is distinct and unique, the common feature is the large eyes and long hear. Toshikawa’s girls have attractive faces and great bodies emphasized with their minimalistic clothes. Seducing the viewer, their long hairs fluttering on the wind and provocative poses invite him to enter into their playful world.
The Animator and The Painter
Introducing the animation in the world of fine arts, Aya Toshikawa showed her talent and revealed creative spirit with no limitations. Beginning with simple animations designed for different boxes, posters and accessories, her style is expanded to complex oil paintings, but keeping the essence and simplicity of manga. Leaving the leadership to the imagination, Toshikawa turns her characters into innocent girls or lascivious women, putting them into the suggestive scenes. Being distinctive in the animation world, this artist remains equally original when it comes to the paintings.
Exhibitons List :
2016
KAWAI Show , Gallery 32 , TelAviv , Israel
Permanent Exhibition , Galerie Alain Daudet , Toulouse , France
Crazy noodles gang !!!!! , Opera Gallery Singapore , Singapore
Collective Show, Guerrero Gallery , Miami, USA
Permanent Exhibition, TRIBES gallery, Tel Aviv , Israel
Permanent Presentation , Happy Art Gallery , Cannes , France
Collective Show , LTBart Gallery, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
Nippon Neo Pop Show, ZK Gallery , San Francisco, USA
CrazyNoodles Show , Gallerie Ariel Jakob , Paris , France
Colorfull, Guerrero Fine Art , Barcelona, Sitges, Spain
Permanent Exhibition, TRIBES gallery, Tel Aviv , Israel
2015
Collective Show , Opera Gallery Dubai , Dubai , UAE
PandaSan and friends , SIBMAN Gallery , Paris , France
Permanent show , Gallery Bel Air Fine Art , Crans Montana, Switzerland
Icons PartII , Gallery 32 , TelAviv , Israel
Magnificient Contemporary Art , Opera Gallery Hong Kong , Hong Kong , China CrazyNoodles Show, Opera Gallery Singapore , Singapore
Collective Show, LTBart Gallery , Ciudad de Mexico , Mexico.
2014
Collective Show , Opera Gallery Hong Kong ,Hong Kong , China
Pop Sculptures , Opera Gallery Paris, Paris , France.
ColorFull , Galerie Ariel Sibony , Paris, France
Collective Show , Opera Gallery Singapore , Singapore
Permanent Presentation , Happy Art Gallery , Cannes , France
Icons , Gallery 32 , TelAviv , Israel
Collective Show , Galerie Absolute , Saint Paul de Vence , France
This is Tokyo , SIBMAN Gallery , Paris , France
Permanent Exhibition , BelAirFineArt Geneve , Geneve , Switzerland
Opening Show LTBart Gallery, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
Permanent Exhibition , Galerie Alain Daudet , Toulouse , France
2013
Permanent Exhibition Sculptures , Galerie SIBMAN , Paris France.Nippon Pop Show , SIBMAN Gallery , Paris , France
Opening Collective Show , Gallery32 , telAviv, Israel.
Mad Show , Maddog Gallery , Ibiza , Spain
Permanent Presentation , Happy Art Gallery , Cannes , France
2012
Pop Art Show , Luca Fine Art , Verbier , Switzerland
Pop Show , Gallery Bel Air Fine Art , Crans Montana, Switzerland.
CrazyNoodles Show , Gallerie Ariel Jakob , Paris , France
Permanent Presentation , Happy Art Gallery , Cannes , France
Permanent Exhibition Sculptures , Galerie Ariel Sibony , Paris France.
AnyWhichWay , Galerie BelAirFineArt , Geneve , Geneve , Switzerland.
2011
Collective Show, Rize Art Gallery, Naarden, The Netherlands
Collective Show , Galerie Alain Daudet, Toulouse , France
CrazyNoodles Show , Galerie Marie Ricco , Calvi , France
Pop Art Show , Galerie des Lices, Saint Tropez , France.
Collective Show , Absolute Gallery, Brugge , Belgium.
Show CrazyNoodles , Sibman Gallery , Paris ,France
ColorFull , Galerie Ariel Sibony , Paris France.
ARTAMSTERDAM (ARTFAIR),RAI Edition 28 , Amsterdam , The Netherlands
2010
Nippon Neo Pop in Paris, Galerie Jacob Paulett, Paris, France
Manga in Amsterdam, Willem Kerseboom Gallery, Amsterdam , The Netherlands
Nippon Collective Show, Galerie Ariel Jakob, Paris, France
CrazyColors , Opera GALLERY, Paris, France
LILLE ART FAIR (ARTFAIR), Palais des Expositions de Lille, Lille, France
ARTAMSTERDAM (ARTFAIR),RAI Edition 26 , Amsterdam , The Netherlands
2009
Nippon 2009, Galerie Ariel Sibony, Paris, France
From Kyoto to Tokyo, Collective Show, Galerie JacobPaulett, Paris France
The World ... a Cartoon, Willem Kerseboom Gallery, Amsterdam , The Netherlands
Shogun in PokemonLand, Opera GALLERY, Geneva, Switzerland
ARTPARIS (ARTFAIR), GrandPalais, Paris, France
ARTAMSTERDAM (ARTFAIR),RAI Edition 25 , Amsterdam , The Netherlands
SCOPE BASEL(ARTFAIR), KASERN Basel, Basel, Switzerland
SCOPE NEW YORK (ARTFAIR), 355 West 36th Street, New York, USA
SLICK PARIS (ARTFAIR), le 104, Paris, France
2008
NeoPop Made in JAPAN, Galerie Ariel Sibony, Paris, France
Tokyo Express, Opera Gallery, London, UK
Inside Japan, La 5eme Galerie, Paris, France
Wonderland, , Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Opera Gallery, Hong Kong, China
ARTLONDON (ARTFAIR), Royal Hospital, London, UK