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 In his paintings, he uses a video game-like composition to depict social and historical content, and by having the characters that appear on the screen involve things that modern people cannot act upon, and by having characters that do not resemble humans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,
2020Acrylic on canvas
78.0×105.5cm
Hokuto Ichibayash
Fluid disturbance,
2020Acrylic on wood panel
147.0×145.3cm
Hokuto Ichibayash
M&A,
2019Acrylic on wood panel
89.5 ×115.3cm
Hokuto Ichibayash
Melee,
2018Acrylic on canvas
145.0×145.0cm
Hokuto Ichibayash
Outer world,
2020Acrylic on wood panel
67.0×179.0cm
Hokuto Ichibayash
Pressure,
2020Acrylic on wood panel
100.0×92.0cm