ARTIST

Yuuta Takada

Born in the United States, he spent his early childhood in Japan. He discovered his interest in art while attending high school in Hawaii, which led him to pursue a career as an artist. Since 2025, he has been studying at Otis College of Art and Design, where he continues to expand his artistic practice. Drawing on his experiences growing up between Japan and the United States, he aims to develop his practice with an international perspective.

In his artistic practice, he focuses on the irreplaceable moments and emotions that arise between people, seeking to explore the essence of human existence through his work. Working primarily in oil painting, he delves into the depths of emotion and memory, aiming to foster empathy and connection with others. This pursuit forms the core of his creative practice.

Artist Statement
At first, I did not know what I wanted to paint. So, I looked back through photographs I had taken in the past. There I found many photographs capturing joyful moments spent with friends. Though I had not often paused to reflect on them before, looking at the photographs made me smile without thinking, and I realized how precious memories are.

I decided to paint based on these photographs as a way of preserving those moments as works of art. I feel that by translating them into paintings, they become images reconstructed through my own memories and emotions — something more personal and deeply felt than a mere record.

Of course, since these are my own memories, they may appear to others as simply cheerful scenes. Yet I find that difference itself to be part of the work’s appeal — it leaves room for viewers to imagine what kind of time that was.

Today, smartphones allow us to capture everyday moments with ease, yet those moments remain somehow fleeting. I want to preserve those fleeting yet precious moments in the form of paintings.