Aya Shimohara was born in 1986.

She had worked for apparel as a designer & planner.

And She has been independent as a freelance artist & illustrator since 2017.

She majored in design at Kyoto Saga University of Arts, but focused on painting independently.

Until now, She has been actively exhibiting in various countries such as New York, London, Sydney and Taiwan.

Her works look pop because she uses bright colors and smartphone-shaped panels.

However, the main axis of her concept is the sense of incongruity and questions about the current era.

So she tries to make a huge contrast.

Smartphones and tablets, owned by many people, have become infrastructure, inorganic yet symbolic of people’s lives.

She uses only her index finger to paint on panels shaped like smartphones and tablets,  because we use our index fingers a lot to operate them.Additionally, she uses giant finger models created using 3D technology when drawing on large sized panels.

She tried to preserve in them the materiality of the pigments and the clarity of the traces left by her fingers.