BIO

Rooo Lou was born in 1988 and he currently lives and works in Tokyo,Japan

He started his career as a designer and later shifted his field of expression to illustration. In addition to collaborating with domestic and international advertising and apparel companies, he also actively produces artwork.

In the artist’s own words “My inspiration comes from memories and photographs, I paint people who are significant in both places, in a sense to depict “my reality”.

“Before I have everything in place, I caught myself drawing inorganic gestures and lifeless portraits. Poses and gestures do not bring emotion to characters, they were all fictitious to me. To free myself from the dullness, I started digging into my memories. I found a way to emerge my memories with the picture to achieve new expressions. And this is how I came to create this series. Another ideal theme I have in mind is “Longing and Lies”, which I regard as an extension to all painting series I did, and it speaks in contrast with the main theme.”