MAYU FURUTANI
Cluster Exhibitor | Cluster Illustration | Alternative Fair 2021
Hippie doggie | 2020
Mayu Furutani is a Japanese artist focused on animation and illustration. She is currently studying 2D animation at the School of Visual Arts in
New York City.
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Her field of work ranges from illustration, animation to picture book.
The jellyfish dream | 2021 | Picturebook
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Using various forms of media, she explores different ways to tell stories with her art. Since a young age, art has always been a form of self expression, and a way to communicate her feelings.
The jellyfish dream | 2021 | Picturebook
In 2021, she had her first art show in Tokyo.
Morning in Paris | 2021
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She finds her inspiration in city life and people. There is something so fascinating about being in a city, where it’s filled with strangers, each having their life story which you will never know about. People-watching and wandering about their stories is one of her favorite things to do.
Night in new york | 2021
She is drawn to the mixed feelings of living in a city. It accepts all, and cares about none. It’s exciting and exhausting at the same time. Being an anonymous figure in the crowd makes you feel both free and lonely.
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White xmas in the city | 2020
Doing nothing together
Her aim is to convey the feeling of subtle contradiction through her work: real and yet surreal, familiar and yet foreign, eastern and yet western, sad and yet whimsical.
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