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born 1959 on the outskirts of london, england - went to school, went to art school, worked in graphic design studios, worked in advertising agencies, worked as a freelance illustrator - all very boring and irrelevant - till the mid eighties when begin publishing photocopy booklets of ink drawings in editions of around 100 copies (or sometimes only half a dozen) distributed via the underground "industrial music culture" mail order network - contact with william bennett led to supplying cover art for a number of whitehouse cds - and an important career motivating friendship with romain slocombe encouraged the start of airbrush paintings based on personal ideas - first exhibitions held at torture garden fetish nightclub events in london in 1993 - and moved to tokyo the same year with teddy bear artist konomi izumi (aka hippie coco) - work published in numerous japanese sex magazines but appeared a dead end - baby art was born as a new artistic direction combining cute images of dolls etc with previous less innocent interests - contributed regularly to the eroguro magazine too negative - the editor formed ng gallery who staged the first major trevor brown exhibitions - and also published (hear no, see no, speak no) evil, the first book collection of trevor brown art, in 1996 - the attention of editions treville was caught who've remained the major publisher of trevor brown art books since - the airbrush was replaced by oil painting around 2000 - the artist currently has one wife and three cats

 
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2013
女の子戦争 (girls war)
bunkamura gallery, shibuya, tokyo

2012
toy box
span art gallery, ginza, tokyo (with hippie coco)
2010

time of alice
bunkamura gallery, shibuya, tokyo (with yuriko yamayoshi)

2007 babies exhibition
taco che, nakano, tokyo

rubber doll (mini expo)
buro discount, zurich, switzerland

rubber doll
subterraneans, osaka, japan
rubber doll
gallery le deco, shibuya, tokyo
2005 sakura
taco che, nakano, tokyo
2004 li'l miss sticky kiss
gallery le deco, shibuya, tokyo
valentine fair
taco che, nakano, tokyo
2003 retrospective 1992-2003
mondo bizzarro gallery, bologne, italy
2002 new world
merry karnowsky gallery, los angeles (with keiti ota)
2001 medical fun
span art gallery, ginza, tokyo
rope rapture & bloodshed
mondo bizzarro gallery, bologne, italy (with antoine bernhart)
sexy nurse
taco che, nakano, tokyo
1999 my alphabet
merry karnowsky gallery, los angeles
1998 trevor brown and toshio saeki
merry karnowski gallery, los angeles (with toshio saeki)
1997 forbidden fruit
azzlo gallery, aoyama, tokyo
japabon
taco che, nakano, tokyo
1996 evil twin
ng gallery, tokyo
doll hospital
keibunsha art box, kyoto
1995 evil
ng gallery, tokyo
       
xs e l e c t e d x i n t e r v i e w sx
2009 with c b liddell
for metropolis / japan today
2007 with sloan freer
for bizarre / nude magazine
2004 with sloan freer
for bizarre
2003 with alicia allen
for child's play