Tomo Shojono
, Japan
 
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Contact details
401 ACCSIS 3-16-2 SETAGAYAKU MINAMIKARASUYAMA157-0062TOKYO
Tel: +81 3-3300-6524 Fax: +81 3-3300-6524
Clients
Shojono Tomo’s international Projects include:
1993 Karl Film Festival, Germany – Animation Presentation
1996 Siberia Magazine, UK – Japanese Page serialization
1998 National TV appearance, Austria
2000 New York Underground Film Festival – Animation Presentation
2006 Bigbrosworkshop (USA) collected character book “I Love U Baby”
2006 Bunny Q Exhibition (Hong Kong) customized toys
2006 Catwalk Show and Art Exhibition (Spain)
2006 L’art de Rien, Aimqube and Boddywood (Paris)
stock products.
2007 “Friendly Monster Alphabet Book” (Australia)
2007 SCREAMING products on sale (Taiwan)
2008 Art Installation and Pop-up Shop (London)
2009 Collaboration with furniture designer Alexander Pelikan (Holland)
2009  2 jun-13jun picture book group exhibition in paris(la cocoto)
2009.13th of September 2009 - 8th of January 2010 "KIMONO FUSION".
IN STOCKHOLM  :OSTASIATISKAMUSEET
2010.September-may 2011  "KIMONO FUSION".EXHIBITION 2  :
World Culture Museum IN STOCKHOLM  (childplay 753)
http://www.varldskulturmuseet.se/smvk/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=126&l=en_US
Professional Experience
Shojono Tomo literally translated means “Friend of the Girl Child”. As her name suggests
Shojono Tomo is an artist who has the soul of an eternal child. The adult with the soul
of a child is a key theme running through her art works.

Shojono Tomo’s art work is inspired by her imagination and view of the world.
This induces the creation of strong characters and use of colour that lend themselves
very much to the mediums of media, particularly TV and fashion. Her work is always
carefully planned and crafted to achieve the desired end result whilst retaining the
integrity of her artistic vision.

An example of the commercial potential of Shojono Tomo’s artistic vision and practice
is her enormously successful “Enocdouter” wearable art range that sells in Japan and
internationally.

The serialisation in GOMES magazine, published by PARCO, of her column
“Human Robot Sewing Machine” was a turning point in Shojono Tomo’s life. This legendary
magazine famously lifted subcultures to the mainstream in Japan. The exposure led to
Shojono Tomo’s regular column on the PLAYSTATION fan site in 1997 cementing her
position as an important emerging artist and leading to further work in Film Animation,
Fashion, Stage Art and Comic Book Illustration.

Shojono Tomo continues to work in the arena of Contemporary Art including her installation
“Kimutakunology” at UP LINK FACTORY, incorporating mobile phone technology to create
a telephone dating club box and her installation using scrap metal objects at STRINP Theatre
in Osaka. These art works led to Shojono Tomo’s first collaboration with the British Art
Interchange Team, leading to further support by Japish to expand her work internationally.

The launch of her fashion brand PORNINVADERS in 1998 gave Shojono Tomo the opportunity
to bring all of her experience of Contemporary Art, Illustration and design came together for
the first time, leading the way for much of her work in the 21st century.
In 2004 Shojono Tomo became supported by the Bikousha Corporation to develop the brand
Enocdouter to sell throughout Japan and internationally.

“CHILDPLAY” was also created In 2004 and features the character SKINSHIP BARNY.
SKINSHIP BARNY is a human El Nino phenomenon,that causes regulation abnormality
in the body temperature when love cannot be confirmed, and burns out because of its own heat,

An example of the commercial potential of Shojono Tomo’s artistic vision and practice
is her enormously successful “Enocdouter” wearable art range that sells in Japan and
internationally.
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