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The themes her works question — existence and absence — overlap with questions many people face today, creating a dialogue with the works.\n\nThe motifs of butterflies, moths, and seashells that frequently appear in her works symbolize the transience and cycle of life beyond the boundaries of material existence. They function beyond mere visual stimulation, serving as vessels for confronting impermanence, encouraging viewers toward inner exploration. The floating women’s faces that appear in her paintings. The figures depicted as “precious children” leave an impression as beings exploring the boundary between reality and deep consciousness, with expressions that could be interpreted as either girlish or adult. Their timeless appearance suggests both eternity and the existence of hidden stories, leaving room for the viewer’s imagination.\n\nThe description of her creative process as Freud’s “work of mourning”[1] gives her works a deep psychological layer. This process, which begins with personal loss, evokes themes of grief and regeneration in the viewer, and emotions overflowing from her inner self trigger empathy and introspection. Beyond the artist’s experience, her works resonate with many people.\n\nIshiguro Hikaru’s works connect Japanese spirituality and cultural background with contemporary psychological themes, engaging in dialogue with the human interior in today’s complex world.\n\nReference: [1] Sigmund Freud, Shingu Kazushige (Supervisor), Freud Complete Works Volume 14 1914-15, Iwanami Shoten, 2010", "cv": [ { "section": "EDUCATION" }, { "year": "2024", "entries": [ "BFA in Japanese Painting, Tohoku University of Art and Design" ] }, { "year": "2026", "entries": [ "MFA in Painting, Tohoku University of Art and Design" ] }, { "section": "SOLO EXHIBITIONS" }, { "year": "2025", "entries": [ "I Am Probably Not the Right Voice for These Paintings, aaploit, Tokyo" ] }, { "year": "2024", "entries": [ "Ishiguro Hikaru (24th Kura no Machi Art Burari), Gallery Tsujirushi, Fukushima", "witch craft, haco, Tokyo" ] }, { "section": "GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)" }, { "year": "2025", "entries": [ "Dust in the Teeth of the Comb, aaploit, Tokyo", "The 33rd Nihonga Exhibition: Tohoku University of Art and Design Graduate School Three-Person Exhibition, The Sync, UNPEL GALLERY, Tokyo" ] }, { "year": "2024", "entries": [ "The 9th Ishimoto Sho Japanese Painting Grand Prize Exhibition, Sekisho Art Museum, Shimane Minamihara", "Art Week, Yonezawa", "SQUARE EXHIBITION, ART FOR THOUGHT, Tokyo", "Emerging Echoes: Presenting Realism, Seoul, South Korea", "Amadare 2024, Garo Suiran, Gunma" ] }, { "section": "ART FAIRS" }, { "year": "2025", "entries": [ "Incheon Art Show 2025, Incheon, South Korea (aaploit)" ] }, { "year": "2024", "entries": [ "AFAF – Art Fair Asia Fukuoka, Fukuoka (aaploit)" ] }, { "section": "AWARDS & GRANTS" }, { "year": "2024", "entries": [ "The 9th Ishimoto Sho Japanese Painting Grand Prize Exhibition, Special Prize (Nihonkai Shinkin Bank President's Award)" ] }, { "year": "2023", "entries": [ "The 44th International Takifuji Art Award, Excellence Prize" ] } ], "biography": [ { "year": "", "entries": [ "Positions painting at the interface arising between the material and spiritual realms. Retrieves the contours of unspoken dissonance, tremors, and presences stripped of substance.", "Selected exhibitions include witch craft (solo, haco-art brewing gallery-, Tokyo, 2024) and Chiasmus (group, aaploit, Tokyo, 2025). Awards include the Excellence Award, 44th International Takifuji Art Award (2023) and the Special Prize, 9th Ishimoto Sho Nihonga Grand Prize Exhibition (2024).", "Born 2002 in Yamagata, Japan. 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