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Ever walked into a gallery or scrolled through your Instagram feed and instantly recognized a painting without even reading the description? One artist who exemplifies this is Naomi Okubo.

Born in Tokyo, Okubo collects images from various sources like books and magazines, scans the images, then project them onto a canvas and traces their outline. From there, she hand-paints each image.

Her art explores themes such as belonging and societal pressures, and the pattern-filled paintings are full of girls who conceal their faces with their hair.

Okubo earned her MFA from Musashino Art University and lived in New York for two years. She has exhibited widely in Asia, Europe, and the United States, and her work has been featured by Airbnb Magazine, Financial Times, Juxtapoz, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair.

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