Nene Tatsumi

Biography

Nene Tatsumi is a Japanese artist. While studying law at Keio University, Japan, she started to draw illustrations inspired by manga, anime, and other traditional artworks of Japan. She studied art at the P. I. Art Center in New York City for 6 months. When she returned to Japan, her work "Mirror" won the Gakuten Prize hosted by the Japan Times in 2018. After graduating from Keio University with a Bachelor of Law (LLB), she won a prize from the Women Association of Japan in 2019. The prize-winning work "Fate" was exhibited in the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Ueno.
In July of 2019, she won the Nika Association Prize in Japan. Her work "Passion" was exhibited at the National Art Center, Roppongi. In the same year, she participated in the Luxembourg Art Fair 2019 hosted by the gallery of Spain.
In 2020, she participated and exhibited at the Diocesano Museum di Terni, Italy, supported by the CoART Magazine. In the same year, she exhibited her art at the collective exhibition of Kunstraum Gerdi Gutperle Gallery in Germany, participated in the one-year online exhibition at the Galeria Azur Madrid, and graduated with a Master's of Law (LLM) from Université Paris-Sorbonne in France.
In 2021, she exhibits her works at Kromatic Art Exhibition hosted by the M.A.D.S Milano Art Gallery.
She has joined in the exhibition “ I Infinite Dreams” by Contemporary Art Curator Magazine.
Also, she joins the group exhibition at WHAT CAFE TERRADA by WATOWA GALLERY.
In 2022, she started her study in a master's course at Tokyo University of the Arts.

Artist Statement

My artworks are inspired by the Asian traditional arts, which are also called illustrations. Growing up in Japan, the culture of illustration, seeing not only the historical artworks but also art like manga and anime, I have been absorbed in the beauty of those artworks.
My subject matter is human feelings.
In my illustration, I try to draw the real figure of people in society. I mix the flowers, human body and faces as the motif to express human feelings such as sadness, anxiety, fear, joy and love, etc.
As Hokusai, a Japanese historical artist drew the landscape the illustration a long time ago, I wanted to draw the people’s feelings like a landscape.
Although most Japanese people do not have a religion, growing up in a Christian family, I have been fascinated by many masterpieces of European paintings like the works of Michelangelo, and Leonard de Vinci.
I try to draw my interpretation of human feelings within the Bible verse in a contemporary way.
For example, “Passion”, one of my paintings which won a prize in Japan, is an expression of the song of Solomon.
My goal is to inspire those who see my work to see more deeply the world around them, to discover the purpose of their life, the hope and beauty of life itself.

Country Japan

Website https://www.nenetatsumi.com/