Banbu

Banbu

B.1996, Japan

After graduated from Tokyo Designer Academy Art Department, Banbu started his artist career in the spring of 2019 after returning from studying abroad in Canada and the the United States. Influenced by foreign animation when he was a child, and pop art that Banbu encountered when he was a student,Banbu created a character using motifs that are not human beings (real world creatures), aiming to express the beauty of diversity by looking at everything from a flat perspective (third-person point of view). 

Based on the artist’s own experience as a homosexual, Banbu create paintings to express equality without regard to gender or species by depicting original creatures that did not or do not exist in the past, based on the themes of what love is and what sex is.

SOLO SHOWS
2023

– Last Quarter Moon – Lop Cafe & Mini Gallery, Japan

– Butterfly Effect – Tresol, Japan

– First Quarter Moon – Tresol, Japan

2022

– LGBTQ+ Me – Between The Arts Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

GROUP SHOWS
2022

–  “I am always be with you” Group Show – Streams Gallery, Hong Kong

2021

– Summer Group Show – The blank gallery, Tokyo, Japan

– 100-10 – Shinwa Auction, Tokyo, Japan

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SELECTED WORKS
Even If This is Our Last Day #3, 2022
Acrylic painting on board
53 x 53 cm
Even If This is Our Last Day #3, 2022
Acrylic painting on board
53 x 53 cm
Even If This is Our Last Day #2, 2022
Acrylic painting on board
53 x 53 cm
Even If This is Our Last Day #2, 2022
Acrylic painting on board
53 x 53 cm
Even If This is Our Last Day #1, 2022
Acrylic painting on board
53 x 53 cm
Even If This is Our Last Day #1, 2022
Acrylic painting on board
53 x 53 cm
Even If This is Our Last Day, 2022
Acrylic painting on board
53 x 53 cm
Even If This is Our Last Day, 2022
Acrylic painting on board
53 x 53 cm
Unfortunately, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Unfortunately, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Moon at Daybreak (朝⽉裏), 2021
Acrylic on canvas
100 × 80.3 cm
Moon at Daybreak (朝⽉裏), 2021
Acrylic on canvas
100 × 80.3 cm
Hungry, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
60.6 × 45.5 cm
Hungry, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
60.6 × 45.5 cm
You Treat Me Like A Flower, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
65.2 × 53 cm
You Treat Me Like A Flower, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
65.2 × 53 cm
EXHIBITIONS
Alex Krueger Solo Exhibition
Space in-between to words
HONG KONG GALLERY
EDO2REIWA : SHISHIDOMIA Solo Exhibition
HONG KONG GALLERY
DIVINE FEMININE TRIO SHOW
HONG KONG GALLERY
Elang Sutajaya Solo Exhibition
THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME
HONG KONG GALLERY
INTUITIVE SENSE GROUP SHOW
HONG KONG GALLERY
BOUNDLESS STORIES DUO SHOW
HONG KONG GALLERY
INNOCENCE GROUP SHOW
HONG KONG GALLERY
CLARENCE RUTH SOLO EXHIBITION
IDENTITY CRISIS
HONG KONG GALLERY
MARC RAYNER SOLO EXHIBITION
PLEADING FOR ANOTHER CENTURY
HONG KONG GALLERY
“I AM ALWAYS BE WITH YOU” GROUP SHOW
HONG KONG GALLERY