Kyoko Dufaux, a Japanese painter born in Nagoya in 1971, currently lives in Paris, where she studied at the Ecole Supérieure d’Arts Graphiques (ESAG). After living in the Ivory Coast for several years, Kyoko has developed a style offering an original synthesis between Japanese and African culture. Expressing a dreamlike and naive universe, she has collaborated as an illustrator with several publishing houses, French (Bayard, Tourbillon), Ivorian (Nei, Eburnie), Japanese (Kodansha, Child, Chuokoron-Sinsha), and obtained in 2021 the 3rd prize of the competition of the city of Boulogne-Billancourt and in 2001 the first prize of the competition of illustrated books of the Pinpoint gallery in Tokyo.
EXHIBITIONS
Kobe Art Marché – Kobe – May. 2025
Atelier 7 en Art– Boulogne-Billancourt – Sep. 2024
Tom’s Garden – Nagoya – Aug. 2024
TOMO– Paris – May. 2024
Carte Blanche aux ateliers BB– Boulogne-Billancourt – Feb. 2024
Atelier 7 en Art – Nov. 2023
Salon d’automne – Boulogne-Billancourt – Nov. 2023
Marchal & Co – Boulogne-Billancourt – March. 2023
Hokanbijutsu– Nagoya – Dec. 2022
Looloolook – Paris – Nov. 2022
Treize dix – Paris –Sep. 2022
Looloolook – Paris – Jul. 2022
Maisonwa – Paris – Oct. 2021
Les quatre saisons – Paris – March. 2021
Marchal & Co – Boulogne-Billancourt – March. 2020
Expo 4 Art – Paris – Dec. 2019
Tom’s Garden – Nagoya – March. 2018
Title – Tokyo – Oct. 2017
Ciasmo – Milan – May 2017
Tom’s Garden – Nagoya – Oct. 2016
Maison de Kiso – Jardin d’acclimatation, Paris – Sep. 2016
Médiathèque Opale-Sud – Berck-sur-Mer – May 2016
Association Henri Collet – Paris – Feb. 2016
Galerie Nobili – Milan – déc. 2015 à Jan. 2016
Galerie Grand Eterna – Paris – May 2014 and Jul. 2015
Galerie Pinpoint – Tokyo – every year from 2006
Associazione Culturale Arte Giaponne – Milan – 2011, 2012 and 2013
PICTURE BOOKS
Les atomes de bois– Editions du pont suspondu (France) – 2021
J’aime lire, La poésie – BAYARD (France) – 2016 et 2017
Andel – couvertures mensuelles de la revue CHUOKORON-SINSHA (Japan) – depuis 2015
Le petit cheval rouge de Dalarna – NEI (Côte d’Ivoire) – 2013
Chiisai nakama – brochures éducatives CHISAINAKAMASHA (Japan) – de 1999 à 2017
Français collège 6e HLI – HACHETTE (France) – 2011 et 2012
Jiraigen no Pon – KODONSHA (Japan) – 2011
Haïti – NEI (Ivory Coast) – 2008
Ayanda – NEI (Ivory Coast) – 2009
Le petit garçon bleu – NEI (Ivory Coast) – 2009
Kabano chindonya san – SEIRYU SYUPPAN (Japan) – 2009
Piisuke no sora – CHILD (Japon) – 2007
Un monstre dans la ville – ÉDITIONS EBURNIE (Côte d’Ivoire) – 2002
Fait d’hiver en Laponie – TOURBILLON (France) – 2002
FRESQUE
Des couleurs à l’hôpital – Mural for the Necker Hospital project – 2008