CLARA DESIRE
Clara Desire was born in La Rochelle, France in 1978. She had an experience to live in Japan in 2002, and devoted herself to Japanese anime culture. Then she established her own style to absorb various anime characters into her artwork with graffiti touch. The art of Desire at the core is deeply influenced by the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat. However, while Basquiat art reflected a social theme such as discrimination and interest in anatomy from his experience of a car accident, the work created by Desire has nothing to do with them. She earnestly expresses her soul with poems and comic characters that she dotes on in her painting. Sometime one can see a sort of explosive energy in her work. That can be read as cry of her heart that might have a similarity with the action which Jackson Pollock exposes his emotions by dripping paints on canvas.
In the solo exhibition in 2021, Desire had felt a strong interest in Japanese anime and she had launched serious series on such topics.
Her new body of work reflects stories to confirm her whereabouts by the expression of revelatory characters and words to be appeared in her dreams repeatedly.
WORKS
BIOGRAPHY
1978 Born in La Rochelle, France 2002,2003 Stay in Tokyo 2006,2007,2008 Worked on illustrations in ELLE French version three years in a row 2012 Worked on illustrations in Natural American Spirit Match Gallery Vol.4 2015 Worked on the illustration for CD Jacket of French Musician “The Wooden Wolf”
PAST EXHIBITIONS
2006 Group Show “Introduction of 3 Contemporary Indie Artists; Clara Desire, John Lurie, Betty
Tompkins” at Galerie Sho Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Japan
2006 Permanent Exhibition at GUY SAVOY in Paris, France
2007 First Solo Exhibition “All About Clara” at Galerie Sho Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Japan
2007 Group Show “New Wave Contemporary Artists Exhibition” at Galerie Sho Contemporary Art in
Tokyo, Japan
2007 Permanent Exhibition at GUY SAVOY in Paris, France
2008 One Person Show at T.Y. Harbor Breweryin Tokyo, Japan
2008 One Person Show at Roppongi Hills, Tokyo
2008 Group Show by Galerie Sho Contemporary Art at Art@AGNES in Tokyo, Japan
2008 Group Show by Galerie Sho Contemporary Art at Art Osaka at Dojima Hotel in Osaka, Japan
2008 Group Show by Galerie Sho Contemporary Art at KIAF 2008 in Seoul, Japan
2008 Permanent Exhibition at GUY SAVOY in Paris, France
2009 Group Show at Galerie Sho Projects; “Something Sweet Girls” in Tokyo, Japan
2009 Group Show by Galerie Sho Contemporary Art at Art@AGNES in Tokyo, Japan
2009 Group Show by Galerie Sho Contemporary Art at KIAF in Seoul, Japan
2009 Permanent Exhibition at GUY SAVOY in Paris, France
2010 Permanent Exhibition at GUY SAVOY in Paris, France
2011 Group Show by Galerie Sho Contemporary Art at Art Fair in Tokyo, Japan
2011 Group Show by Galerie Sho Contemporary Art at KIAF 2011 in Seoul, Japan
2011 Permanent Exhibition at GUY SAVOY in Paris, France
2012 Solo Exhibition “While Dreaming, Sounds My Loud and Wild Cry” at Hionas Gallery in New York,
USA
2012 Group Show by Galerie Sho Contemporary Art at the Armory Show in New York, USA
2012 Group Show by Galerie Sho Contemporary Art at Art Platform in Los Angeles, USA
2012 Permanent Exhibition ay GUY SAVOY in Paris, France
2013 Group Show at Galerie SMAAKS in Paris, France
2013 Group Show by Galerie Sho Contemporary Art at the Armory Show in New York, USA
2013 Permanent Exhibition at GUY SAVOY in Paris, France
2014 Permanent Exhibition at GUY SAVOY in Paris, France
2021 Solo Exhibition "Muse Incorruptible | Everlasting Muse" at Sho+1 in Tokyo, Japan
2023 Group Show by Sho+1 at ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA in Fukuoka, Japan
2023 Group Show by Sho+1 at Art Collaboration Kyoto（ACK）in Kyoto, Japan
