ISHIGURO Hikaru
aaploit
2026
Artist Statement
Ishiguro Hikaru’s work traces the space between presence and absence, beginning from an experience of loss. Butterflies, moths, and seashells appear as signs of transience and return, while floating faces drift between memory and the unconscious. What emerges is not a narrative, but a condition—an opening through which viewers encounter their own sense of impermanence.
Whispered Conspiracy, 2025
Sleep with one body, 2025
Utsuse no Himitsu ha Watashi nomi zo Shiru, 2024
Biography
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. Tohoku University of Art and Design, BFA and MFA in Japanese Painting.
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EDUCATION
BFA in Japanese Painting, Tohoku University of Art and Design
MFA in Painting, Tohoku University of Art and Design
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
I Am Probably Not the Right Voice for These Paintings, aaploit, Tokyo
Ishiguro Hikaru (24th Kura no Machi Art Burari), Gallery Tsujirushi, Fukushima
witch craft, haco, Tokyo
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
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
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
ART FAIRS
Incheon Art Show 2025, Incheon, South Korea (aaploit)
AFAF – Art Fair Asia Fukuoka, Fukuoka (aaploit)
AWARDS & GRANTS
The 9th Ishimoto Sho Japanese Painting Grand Prize Exhibition, Special Prize (Nihonkai Shinkin Bank President's Award)
The 44th International Takifuji Art Award, Excellence Prize
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