Sey Yes

Sey is a conceptual mixed media artist and award winning contemporary designer based in Los Angeles, CA. Sey was born in Tokyo , raised in New York and earned an art degree at Pratt Institute. Through Sey’s exposure to different cities and cultures, his art naturally reflects popular culture touching on topics such as consumerism and capitalism.

Sey has been able to lead conceptual design projects and develop new ideas of automation and aesthetic through various visual mediums using vibrant color with a vast range of mixed material allowing him to develop a relationship with his work. He has done solo exhibitions in Los Angeles and New York, as well as participated in art fairs in Miami Art Basel. He has also been awarded the top designer award for Tokyo Designers Week and has worked with brands like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Mattel and the Andy Warhol Foundation.

The bold graphic aesthetic and organic textural quality of his work creates a conversation about the obscurity between art and design. His unbounded method of combining a variety of material ranging from paint and wood, to resin and acrylic gives the work layers of depth. Sey presents a new perspective and flare to iconic imagery with a conscious yet humorous message on s...

Pratt Institute MBA

Art Basel Miami: Scope Art Fair (solo booth) December 2016
8Cube Gallery (Tokyo, Japan) : July 2016
Street Art Fair LA: June 2016
Group show Stone Malone Gallery: March 2016
Art Basel Miami-Conception Art Fair: December 2015
Cornbread group show at Gallery 38/Bruce Lurie Gallery: November 2015
Street Art Fair LA: October 2015
Solo Exhibition at Gallery 38 LA: August 2015
Coca-Cola Art bottle exhibition in Tokyo: August 2015
Brisk Ice Tea artist can design collaboration: August 2014
Coca-Cola charity auction event Tokyo: June 2014
K-town Artwalk group show LA: March 2014
SMA Gala art auction event Tokyo: March 2013
Downtown LA Artwalk solo exhibition: April 2013
SMA Gala art auction event Tokyo: March 2012
Downtown LA Artwalk solo exhibition: March 2011
Tokyo Designers Week Art poster group show: June 2008
Pratt Fish’s Eddy art show New York: April 2006
KEF exhibition Mori Aet Museum: Tokyo, Japan 2006
KEF exhibition World Trade Center: Boston MA 1995
KEF exhibition Pushkin Museum: Moscow, Russia 1994
KEF exhibition Pompidou Center: Paris, France 1992