ARTIST

HOKUTO ICHIBAYASHI

Hokuto Ichibayashi was born in 1992, in Ishikawa, Japan. He graduated from Kyoto Seika University, majoring in Japanese painting.
After graduation, Ichibayashi continued to create Japanese-style paintings, but changed his style from the medium of Japanese-style painting, which focused on handling natural objects, which he had studied at university, to using more artificial materials and expressing them with his own colors. The reason for this change in medium was that when he went to sketch natural objects as his motif, he felt the beauty of the images of natural objects that he saw on the LCD of his PC, which he had been familiar with since childhood, rather than seeing them in person. In his paintings, he uses a video game-like composition to depict social and historical content, and by having the characters that appear on the screen involve things that modern people cannot act upon, and by having characters that do not resemble humans involved in fictional settings, he is able to depict events on the screen that have nothing to do with modern people in a way that is somehow linked to current events. By doing so, he depicts events on the screen that have nothing to do with modern people in a way that is somehow linked to current events.

BIOGRAPHY

1992
Born in Ishikawa, Japan
2015
Graduated from Kyoto Seika University, Department of Japanese painting Currently, based in Tokyo, Japan

EXHIBITIONS

2021
Solo Exhibition “Outer World” THE blank GALLERY, Tokyo
2020
Solo Exhibition “Outer World” MARCO, Osaka
Solo Exhibition “The tower” daitokai, Tokyo
“Input/Output” GINZASIX GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS, Tokyo
2019
Solo Exhibition “The tower” FUJII DAIMARU, Kyoto
“VIEWS and FACES” THE blank GALLERY, Tokyo

WORKS

Hokuto Ichibayash

Confused by figurines,

2020

Acrylic on canvas
78.0×105.5cm

Confused by figurines

Hokuto Ichibayash

Fluid disturbance,

2020

Acrylic on wood panel
147.0×145.3cm

Fluid disturbance

Hokuto Ichibayash

M&A,

2019

Acrylic on wood panel
89.5 ×115.3cm

M&A

Hokuto Ichibayash

Melee,

2018

Acrylic on canvas
145.0×145.0cm

Melee

Hokuto Ichibayash

Outer world,

2020

Acrylic on wood panel
67.0×179.0cm

Outer world

Hokuto Ichibayash

Pressure,

2020

Acrylic on wood panel
100.0×92.0cm

Pressure