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紅乃谷 安那（べにのや あんな）1972年に石川県金沢市で生まれる。
日本画家の祖父を持ち、伝統美を重んじる金沢で育つことで、洗練された街並みや日常的に目にする芸術を当たり前のものとして幼少期を過ごした。
子供の頃から絵を描いてきた彼女は１０代の多感な時期に日本のアニメ・マンガに出会い、その後の作風や表現活動に影響を色濃く残すことになる。
中学・高校と美術部に所属、デッサンを学びつつ、地域のイベントポスターコンペで採用されるなど、積極的に活動。
絵で食べていきたいという夢をもち、金城短期大学短大美術学科グラフィックデザイン科を選考、グラフィックデザインを学ぶ。
卒業後、グラフィックデザイナーとして印刷会社に就職。
しかし、アニメ・マンガの世界への憧れを捨てきれず上京。
萌え絵の元祖的作家、こげどんぼ*氏のアシスタントに入り、漫画家を目指すが思うように雑誌社に採用されず挫折。
金沢へ帰郷し、以後フリーランスのイラストレーターとして絵を描き続ける。
一方、１０代後半から趣味としてパロディ漫画やイラストを描くなど、同人誌活動を長年続けており、８０～９０年代のオタクカルチャーにどっぷりはまっていた。
会社勤めをしながら、イラストレーターの仕事は副業として活動していた彼女は出産による退職により、本業イラストレーターとして活動を始める。
似顔絵師として北陸各地のイベントで活動しつつ、似顔絵とデザイン、漫画制作の経験をかして、チラシやパンフレット、名刺、Webデザイン、商用漫画、アイコン制作などを手がける。
その間１０年以上自分の作品を描くことがなかった彼女は、ある自己啓発セッションを受けた際、コーチに「何故自分の絵を描いて発表しないの？」という言葉を投げかけられた。
そのときに、彼女は自分が子供の頃に描いたアーティストという夢が自分が本当にしたかったことだということに気づく。
そこから、自分の描きたい絵は何か？何を表現したいのか？を試行錯誤し、デジタルアート制作を始める。
彼女の中にある、金沢の伝統美や、アニメ・漫画カルチャーを表現しつつ、現代をしなやかに生きる若者達の姿を描いた作品は、彼女の芯の強さと情熱、金沢人としての美意識の高さを感じさせるものとなっている。
【受賞履歴】
２０２２年１０月
「第３回Gates Art Competition」入選
【展示会活動履歴】
２０２２年
６月 大阪市ギャラリーIYN主催「美しい人展」出展
７月 ギャラリーIYN主催 神戸阪急「私の世界展」出展
８月 石川県で初の自主開催のグループ展「「個」展」を開催。
６日間で６０人弱の来場者を迎え、大盛況のアート展となった。
９月 金沢市芸術祭「oterat金澤２０２２」出展。
Anna Beninoya was born in 1972 in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture.
Kanazawa City is a city with an ancient history, just like Kyoto and Nara in Japan.
Having a grandfather who was a Japanese-style painter, she grew up in Kanazawa, where traditional beauty is valued, and spent her childhood taking for granted the refined cityscape and the art she saw on a daily basis.
She has been drawing pictures since childhood and was exposed to Japanese anime and manga during her impressionable teenage years, which strongly influenced her later style and expressive activities.
She was a member of the art club in junior high and high school, where she studied drawing and was actively involved in local event poster competitions.
With a dream of making a living by drawing, she was selected to study graphic design at Kinjo Junior College, Department of Graphic Design, Junior College of Art and Design.
After graduation, she worked for a printing company as a graphic designer.
However, she could not let go of his yearning for the world of anime and manga, and moved to Tokyo.
She became an assistant to Kogedonbo*, the original moe artist, and set his sights on becoming a manga artist, but she failed to get hired by a magazine as she had hoped.
She returned home to Kanazawa and continued to draw pictures as a freelance illustrator.
On the other hand, she has been active in coterie magazine activities for many years, drawing parody manga and illustrations as a hobby since his late teens, and was immersed in the otaku culture of the 80s and 90s. culture of the 80s and 90s.
While working at a company, she had been working as an illustrator as a side job, but when she left the company due to childbirth, she started her career as an illustrator in her own right.
While working as a portrait artist at events throughout the Hokuriku region, she also used her experience in portrait drawing, design, and manga production to create flyers, pamphlets, business cards, web design, commercial manga, icons, and more.
She had not drawn her own work for more than 10 years, and during a self-development session, her coach asked her, "Why don't you draw your own pictures and present them to the public? She was asked by her coach, "Why don't you draw your own pictures and present them?
It was then that she realized that her childhood dream of becoming an artist was what she really wanted to do.
From there, she began to ask herself, "What is it that I want to draw? What do I want to express? She began creating digital art through trial and error.
Her works, which express the traditional beauty of Kanazawa and anime/manga culture while depicting young people living flexibly in the modern age, show her core strength and passion, as well as her high sense of beauty as a Kanazawaite.