1980 Born in Fukuoka

2004 Received a bachelor’s degree from the school of design

Tokyo National University of fine arts and music

Now working and living in Kumamoto.

Nana Monda has been drawing works on the theme of women from the beginning. Her work is composed in harmony with the female image by drawing “flowers” to match the female image that is her motif. The complex relationship between inner emotions and beautiful appearances such as beauty and ugliness, strength and weakness, softness and rigidity, calmness and fear, are properly expressed in the artist’s pen.

She was shocked by the natural sculpture and beauty of color when she moved to Kumamoto, changing her style to use her current colorful and vibrant colors. After that, in 2014, he won the New Face Award at the National Art Center, Tokyo, and was selected for the Kumamoto “Drawing Power” 2014 Grand Prix.

In recent years, Kadida has started to create related series inspired by the “Higo (old name of Kumamoto) Rokka (six flowers)” that have been cherished since the Edo period in Kumamoto since the Edo period. Hosokawa Shigekata (1721–1785), the sixth Hosokawa lord of Kumamoto, was an enthusiastic natural historian. Due to the lord’s methodical cultivation of local varieties and an extensive collection of botanical books, planting and appreciating flowers became a desirable gentlemanly accomplishment, and samurai in Kumamoto competed to grow the most beautiful specimens. The artist places traditional flowers and women in traditional costumes in the picture, hiding their real-life background; exaggerated slender necks and warm jade-like faces, seem to coexist harmoniously with flowers in nature, but at the same time, the unavoidable sense of strangeness and alienation are also lingering on in the work. The fate and identity of the woman behind the picture have become a mystery.