Alex Kukai Shinohara

Alex Kukai Shinohara is a painter and sculptor whose work blends figurative and narrative elements with influences from street culture. Based in Brooklyn, he shares a Dumbo studio with his mother and father, Noriko and Ushio Shinohara, carrying forward the family’s dynamic artistic legacy alongside his own distinctive voice. He graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1992 and has since actively exhibited his work in the United States and Japan. In 2009, he was included in “New Tale of Our Age”, co-curated by Midori Yoshimoto and Aileen Wang, who introduced ten emerging artists in the greater New York metropolitan area at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit.

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