Hikaru Cho
Hikaru Chō ( Japanese チ ョ ー ヒ カ ル or 趙 燁 , Chō Hikaru , Chinese Zhao Ye ; born March 29, 1993 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Sino-Japanese artist and body painter .
Life
Chō was born and raised in Japan, but is a Chinese citizen. She studied design at the Musashino Art School until 2012 and is internationally known for her work. As a body painter, she paints naked bodies and, in her food art, also foods. It thus documents the transience, the vulnerability and the alienation.
2014 she has with their images on bodies Campaign My Body my Rights of Amnesty International illustrates.
In 2016, photos of her works were shown in an exhibition Identity in Transition at the Kunstverein Ludwigsburg in the MIK .
Web links
- Cho Hikaru website
- Petra Lanfermann: Cho Hikaru, Identity in Transition (Kunstverein Ludwigsburg)
- Japanese Body Paint Artist Hikaru Cho Shows Off Surreal Animal Creations
Individual evidence
- ↑ イ ン タ ビ ュ ー チ ョ ー ヒ カ ル さ ん ("Interview with Hikaru Chō"). In: Gakugei Cafe. Retrieved November 3, 2016 (Japanese).
- ^ Tim Höhn: Spectacular body painting exhibition in Ludwigsburg: Surrealism on bare skin . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . September 25, 2016 ( stuttgarter-zeitung.de [accessed September 3, 2019]).
- ↑ My Body My Rights: Tokyo-based artist joins campaign with 'hyperreal' body paintings. In: www.amnesty.org. Retrieved October 12, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chō, Hikaru |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 趙 燁 (Japanese-Chinese); チ ョ ー ヒ カ ル (Japanese); Zhao Ye (Chinese reading) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sino-Japanese body painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1993 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo prefecture |