Artist Biography

Jun Oson, born in 1979, Japan, is an illustrator and artist living in Kamakura known for his nihilistic pop-oriented style. Influenced by manga animations, Jun brings his own satirical cartoonism to the canvas with ambiguous figures occupying a dystopian world.

Diversity is a recurring and prevalent theme in Onson’s work and the motive for the artist’s peanut like shaped faces. Emphasis is purposefully placed on creating indeterminable figures incorporating unsystematic characteristics that transcend nationality. Displaced worlds of individuals with various nationalities, skin tones and features.

Oson’s artwork expands upon, while rooted in, his experience as a commercial illustrator including distinct graphic lines, block colour pigments and illustrative characters, all aesthetic elements fundamental to that profession.

Highly collectable, Oson has been active worldwide in the UK, France, Spain, Dubai, Hong Kong, Seoul and Beijing, both in exhibitions and producing new studio work.

Selected Exhibitions

2024 Solo “People, Flower, One” at Moosey Art Gallery in London, UK
2023 Solo “Looking For” at Soft Corner in Seoul, Korea
2023 Solo “E.T. x Jun Oson” at Isetan Shinjuku in Tokyo, Japan
2023 Solo “Motrey” at Harbour City in Hong Kong
2023 Solo “Welcome to JONP at and wander in Tokyo, Japan
2023 Solo “Bore” at Meson Osmen Gallery in Paris, France
2022 Solo “Stare” at Gallery Target in Tokyo, Japan
2022 Solo “Just Looking” at Moosey Art Gallery in London, UK
2022 Solo “Whatever” at The Anzai Gallery in Tokyo, Japan
2022 Duo “Byond The Characters” at ArtLife Gallery in Miami, USA
2021 Solo “Back to the future x Jun Oson” at Isetan Shinjuku in Tokyo, Japan Solo
2021 “D_I_S_T_A_N_C_E in HK” at Gallery Ascend in Hong Kong
2020 Solo “D_I_S_T_A_N_C_E” at Diesel Art Gallery in Tokyo, Japan
2019 Solo “Share Land” in Beijing, China