Chin pan

Panda artist Chinpan

Born in 1979

Graduated from the Social Studies Department of the Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University in 2002.

A panda artist who mainly draws panda characters.

What I want to portray is actually a somewhat foolish, lovable, and greedy human being. However, when I portray a human being, it somehow becomes very raw.

So, he wondered what kind of "animal is like an indulgence card" that he could make do anything without getting in trouble, and came up with the idea of ​​using a "panda" as his motif, which is black and white and has the ultimate "cuteness" as its weapon.

He boldly depicts various pandas and the events surrounding them in rich colors and unique compositions, and in recent years has been creating paintings of pandas that "strongly attract people and mysteriously make the viewer smile." The characters are depicted in a comical way as possessing "good fortune" and "good luck," and by combining them with gods and Buddhas , they are proposed as new auspicious paintings.The theme of the work is to capture "luck," which is an invisible and very vague concept, but which is inseparable from human desires and karma .

His main artworks include "Agopan Cafe" (2016), which commemorates the 70th anniversary of Roppongi Amandes.

Art direction, cover illustration for "Nokyo Goes to the Moon" by Yasutaka Tsutsui, published by Kadokawa Bunko (2017)

Kagoshima City Tram Sister City Train Wrapping Illustration (2021)

Kagoshima Airport boarding gate cafe interior wrapping illustration (2025), etc.

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agopanda/

Website: https://www.agopan.net/

[Solo Exhibition]

2025 Solo exhibition "Evening Cool of the Gods" at Yamagataya Gallery, Kagoshima

2025 Solo exhibition "Panda Blessing Picture" at Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore in Tokyo

2024 Solo exhibition "Lucky Panda Picture for Bringing Fortune" at Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore, Tokyo

2023 Solo exhibition "Happy Summer" at Yamagataya Gallery, Kagoshima

2021: Yamagataya Gallery, Kagoshima "Gods Playing in Water"

2021 Tokyo, s+arts "Gods Playing in Water"

2020 Tokyo・s+arts Drawing the Times ~ "Bonsai of Time" ~

2019 Kagoshima White Gallery Painting the Times ~ "Bonsai of Time" ~

2018 "Pandas Spin" at Shonandai Gallery, Tokyo

2017 "Panda Forest" at Kirishima Open Air Park, Kagoshima

[Group Exhibition]

2023 Art Jakarta, Indonesia Exhibited at Contemporary Tokyo

2023 BEIJING CONTEMPORARY 2023 Exhibitor: Contemporary Tokyo

2022 ART TAIPEI, Taiwan Exhibited at: Contemporary Tokyo

2022 Busan, Korea, ART BUSAN Exhibited by: Contemporary Tokyo

2021 Guangzhou Contemporary Art Fair

2021 Beijing Heaven/True/Existence/Evil Goude Art X Contemporary Tokyo

2021 Tokyo Contemporary Tokyo 4-person exhibition TERRADA ART COMPLEX 2:

2019 Hong Kong/Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong Exhibitor: Shonandai Gallery

2018 Hong Kong/Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong Exhibitor: Shonandai Gallery

2017 Hong Kong / Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong Exhibitor: Shonandai Gallery

Taiwan・YOUNG ART TAIPEI Exhibitor: Shonandai Gallery

[Awards]

2014 Liquitex Art Prize Runner-up

2010 U1 SPACE Illustration File Competition Grand Prize (Tonohara Norihisa Award)

ART MARKET Vol.15 Scout Judging Award (Maruya Gardens Award)

11th International Illustration Competition

Best in Character Award (sponsored by the Japan Illustrators Association)

Kagoshima Design Exhibition Visitor Voting 3rd Place

2009 ART MARKET Vol.12 Scout Judging Award (Minami Nippon Shimbun Feria Award)

KTS Namaiki Voice ART MARKET Vol.12 Grand Prix

2008 ART MARKET Vol.11 Runner-up

2006 ART MARKET Vol.8 Scout Judging Award (The Blue Bird Tea Room Award)

2005 ART MARKET Vol.7 3rd place

2004 ART MARKET Vol.6 Special Jury Award (Otera Satoshi Award)