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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Born February 3 , 1971

Tokyo, Japan

Nationarity Japanese

Education Musashino Art University of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, Royal College of Art

known for Artist

Notable work A series of “Soft Basquiat”

Movement Post-pop art, Fan art

Education

1993-1996 Musashino Art University of Fine Arts,Painting Course,Ma, Tokyo, Japan

2012-2014
BFA Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA

2014-2016
MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London, UK

Residency
(upcoming) DRAWinternational, Caylus, France
(upcoming) Pinea-Linea de Costa, Rota, Spain

Exhibitions

2019
‘Camden Art Centre / RCA Sculpture Project’, Camden Art Centre, London, UK
‘Khojaly Peace Prize Exhibition’, House of Parliament (Palace of Westminster), London, UK
2018
'RCA Secret 2016’, Kensington Gallery, London, UK
‘Strings’, Project Space, Royal College of Art, London, UK
‘Oxford International Art Fair’, Oxford Town Hall, Oxford, UK
‘Borders are for crossing’, Sculpture Court, University of Edinburg, Edinburg, UK
‘WIP Show’, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2017
'ECA@RCA: Borders are for crossing', Studio RCA, London, UK
'Drawing', Royal College of Art, London, UK
'Senior Sculpture Show', Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
'EnAct, ReAct', Metcalf building, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
'2015 Community Exhibit', IMAGO Foundation for the Arts, Warren, RI, USA
2016
'Pale Firework', Gelman Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
'Please Wait...Generating', Taylor Baldwin's Studio, Providence, RI, USA
'Life, Existence, Identity', Metcalf building, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
2015
'Design Selections', Waterman Art Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
'Drawing Selections', Waterman Art Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA

Performance and Publication
2017
ArtMaze Magazine, Issue 4 (August, 2017)
Wotisart Magazine, Issue 4 (July, 2017)
Average Art Magazine (March, 2017)
Floor Magazine, Issue 8 (February, 2017)
2015
A Day’-24 hours non-stop performance at RISD, Providence, RI, USA

Awards & Honers
2018
Khojaly peace prize (win second prize), London, UK
2016
Bloomberg New Contemporary (shortlisted), London, UK
2013-2015
Designated as Honors Student at RISD for achievements of Fall and Spring Semester, Providence, RI, USA

I began to study painting in Tokyo, Japan. During the 1990s I worked in the manner of the Regionalists, being influenced also by the Mexican muralist painters (Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros) and by certain aspects of Surrealism.
By the mid 2000s I was painting in a completely abstract manner, and the `drip and splash' style for which I am known emerged with some abruptness in 2000s. Instead of using the traditional easel I affixed my canvas to the floor or the wall and poured and dripped my paint from a can; instead of using brushes I manipulated it with `sticks, trowels or knives' (to use my own words), sometimes obtaining a heavy impasto by an admixture of `sand, broken glass or other foreign matter'. This manner of Action painting had in common with Surrealist theories of automatism that it was supposed by artists and critics alike to result in a direct expression or revelation of the unconscious moods of the artist.
It would be suggested that I was influenced by Native American sand paintings, made by trickling thin lines of colored sand onto a horizontal surface. It was not until the mid 2000s that I began my "action" paintings, influenced by Surrealist ideas of "psychic automatism" (direct expression of the unconscious). I would fix my canvas to the floor and drip paint from a can using a variety of objects to manipulate the paint.