Chiho Aoshima

Chiho Aoshima (青島千穂, born 1974 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese pop artist and member of Takashi Murakami's Kaikai Kiki Collective.

Much like the traditional ukiyo-e compositions, her subjects are drawn with a well defined flat line[10] and are placed in a single plane of depth.

Using digital drawing tools Aoshima creates unique scenes featuring nymphettes cavorting with animals, cheerleaders gone awry, and blood-stained sashimi slicers, all depicted with soft, cool colors, little modeling, and a dreamy, teen point of view.

For Superflat, a 2001 exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Aoshima scaled up The red-eyed tribe, a highly detailed landscape filled with stylish young women, originally made for an Issey Miyake advertisement, to a massive fifteen by fifty-two feet.

[12] Because of the nature of the medium, there was no loss of clarity in the production of the giant digital prints, and the transference of the intimate, hand-held scale of mango to billboard bombast illuminates the possibilities of the simplified manga look for environmental applications.

[9] Artists who use shōjo techniques are often critiqued for perpetuating cultural norms through their use of gender defining roles for their female characters.