Jim Nagoya - Le Chien

- Unique work with certificate of authenticity
- Original work on canvas and wooden frame

Jim Nagoya is a French visual artist whose powerful, instinctive work sits at the crossroads of expressionism, street art, and contemporary abstraction. Trained at the prestigious Écoles des Beaux-Arts of Paris and Amiens, he develops from an early stage a visceral artistic practice, fueled by an inner need to represent and reinvent the world.

His oeuvre, rich in symbols and raw energies, draws inspiration from major currents such as the Cobra movement, German expressionism, Street Art, Surrealism, New figuration, and American expressive abstraction. He joined the Street Art collective TBS alongside Jone Hopper and Skepa, exploring the interaction between art and urban space.

Jim Nagoya’s universe is a fusion of major influences: Basquiat, Bacon, Picasso, Corneille, Condo, Jonone… but also the literary and cinematic worlds of the Beat Generation and the underground California of the 1960s. This inspiration even takes him to Los Angeles, where he collaborates for several years with a renowned painter of the art scene.

Back in France, Jim Nagoya continues a pronounced trajectory. He has been awarded several times at national salons, regularly exhibiting at the Grand Palais in Paris, and his works today are part of numerous private and public collections (town halls, departmental councils, etc.).

A personal, free, vibrant and engaged pictorial language — a mirror of the pulsions of the contemporary world, imbued with a unique symbolism.

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