People, animals, nature. Children. All the things she encounters.
Anz Kanie views the world and the elements therein based on keen, singular perspectives, warmly embracing within herself all of the happiness, anger and sadness they exude, enveloping them like the gentle light of the moon.
Her lines are bold yet supple, the finished works immensely powerful and vibrant yet somehow fleeting and fragile in their color usages.
The viewer feels as if they are bathing in a spot of warm, comfortable sunlight, yet the works also evoke a sense of pathos.
Kanie employs lines and colors in magical ways to create the worlds seen in her pieces, and we encourage you to open yourself up to the messages each work conveys based on the viewpoint of an artist who looks at our contemporary world in novel and unusual ways.
This exhibition and sales event includes new, never-before-seen works created in 2020 through the artist's dedicated and passionate efforts.

Anz Kanie was born in Tokyo. She graduated from the Jiyunomori Gakuen Junior & Senior High School and afterward went on to study graphic art in London.
She is the chief director of The 3.11 Children's Library Nonprofit Organization. Kanie has participated in numerous exhibitions at venues throughout Japan and abroad, including art museums, galleries, and well-known department stores throughout Japan. Her activities as an artist are wide and varied, encompassing children's picture books, essays, set design, mural paintings, lectures and more.
Following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, she established a dedicated picture book library for children in the disaster-struck city of Soma in Fukushima Prefecture. In addition, Kanie organizes and coordinates art events for children as parts of larger urban art events held in Tokyo's Shinjuku and Nerima Wards, Hino City, and other locales.
She also serves as a coordinator in the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Reconstruction Education Support Program, working to bring children throughout the nation together with art, and engages in a number of corporate collaboration projects with BMW Japan, Japan Transocean Air (JTA) and other companies. As a reflection of her endeavors thus far, Kanie has been chosen to collaborate with the Japan Civil Society Network on SDGs, working to link art and artists with sustainable development goals (SDGs) as well as NPOs and NGOs.