KADOKURA NAOKO was born in Chiba in 1977. In the year 2001, she graduated from the Culture Art Institute, Vocational School.

For Kadokura Naoko it is important to capture the very moment of sad emotions. Her heart is touched by the anxiety and madness during the crisis between childhood and adulthood, by life-force and lived feelings as well as the impudence to survive, and constantly goes on drawing this theme. The persons in the pictures that are reduced to faces are young girls that have parted from their friends or boyfriends. They are lonely figures who are taken aback and have dreadful facial expressions.
The artist brings the Japanese characteristics of black hair and black pupils in the technique of oil painting with charcoal on the canvas, and because of the installation on a white background, at the first glance those works seem like monochrome pictures. The sensual and slightly opened lips are dyed in pink color and the viewer is taken aback by the female shapes and the strong eye-lines. Male observers may be enchanted, while female observers may express their disgust. These drawings are certainly affectionate for everyone.

Solo Exhibitions
2008
Gallery Tsubaki, Kyobashi
Paper Pulp Assembly Hall, Ginza
2007
Meguri / Ueno
2004
Gallery SAZA
2003
Internet Exhibition / Ueda, Nagano
2001
Gallery Kura / Omiya
Gallery Ippodo /　Shinagawa
2000
Terashima Culture Center / Kashiwa
Compass Art Space / Kyobashi　(’02, ’03, ’05, ’06, ‘07)
Face-Exhibition / Omiya
1999
First Solo-Exhibition “Department N” (Ginza: Public Section)

Group Exhibitions
2006
Gallery Kajima / Ginza (07’)
Art Frontier / Shinagawa
2005
T.BOX / Ginza
Gallery Hajime / Matsubarako, Nagano
2004
Yamanakako Museum
Towa Gallery, Setagaya　Museum
Sai Gallery / Minami Aoyama (05’)
Mominoki Gallery / Jyuugaoka (06’)
2003
Nagano Museum for Contemporary Art / Nagano
2002
Shimin Gallery / Funabashi
Izumi Kemigawahama Exposition / Chiba
2001
Sky Door Art Place / Aoyama
Misawa Homes / Yokohama
Tanuki / France, Lyon (02’)
Compass Art Gallery / Kyobashi (02’, 03’, 04’, 05’, 06’, 07)
Gallery Moteki
2000
Hiroo
Christmas Art (House Square Yokohama, Compass Art Space Kyobashi)
1998-2000 Culture Art Institute, Vocational School, div. exhibitions
1997 Terashima Culture Center / Kashiwa

Awards
2003
Culture Forum 104 Exposition / Kashiwa: First Prize（Judge: Prof. Motoe Kunio）
2000
Culture Forum 104 Exhibition, First Prize (Judge: Minemura Toshiaki)