KINJO

Kinjo, born in Tokyo in 1990, with family roots in Okinawa, is a Japanese artist with a

unique style. Since his childhood, he has been passionate about the free spirit of

skateboarding culture, and used street art as an outlet to express his emotions and urban life.

Okinawa has been influenced by American culture for many years after the war, and those

foreign American commodities and logos have been implicitly embedded to Kinjo's

childhood, and the American mass culture has unconsciously and uncontrollably infiltrated

him. The artist has transformed the corporate symbols and commodity packaging of Pop Art

into his creative vocabulary, and through an arbitrary yet poetic approach, he has explored

and deconstructed the iconic symbols and hidden facts of American culture. With hazy,

flowing brushstrokes and naïve lines, his works exude an original, urban aesthetic, like a

playful game of color and form. Kinjo’s uninhibited creative style has attracted the attention

and invitations of international brands, making him one of the de-constructors and reinventors

of cultural representations throughout cross-border cooperations and global

perspectives.