HISAMATSU Tomoko

Profile

Born in 1991 in Mie, Japan. Lives and works in Saitama, Japan. Painter. She received MA of Japanese Painting (Nihonga), Tohoku University of Art and Design, Yamagata in 2017. Left Ph.D. Program in 2019. In 2022, she resided in New York City with support from the Grants for Overseas Study by Young Artists, POLA Art Foundation. 

Recent Exhibitions
2024 “Fellow Travelers of the Canvas: the Takahashi Ryutaro Collection”, group show, Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata
2023 “Everyday Postcards from New York to Tokyo” solo show, Tri Gallery, Tokyo
2023 “Shin Japanese Painting: Revolutionary Nihonga”group show, Pola Art Museum,Kanagawa
2022 “The Circulation of Art”Solo Show, Mistukoshi Contemporary Gallery, Tokyo
2018 “ARKO 2018 Tomoko Hisamatsu Exhibition”Solo Show, Ohara museum of Art, Okayama

Awards
2022 The Grants for Overseas Study by Young Artists, POLA Art Foundation (Study in the U.S.)
2015 Encouragement Prize,The 7th Koji Kinutani Award
2014 Toshiko Okamoto Prize, The 18th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art

About works / performance

I am interested in the power, institutions, economy, and history of art. I travel to various places to explore the presence of a common language of art or their regional differences, creating figurative paintings and drawings. I perceive art, including painting, as something that goes beyond aesthetic experience to encompass social connections, including ownership and distribution of artworks. I engage in self-referential creation in response to this perception. My artistic mission is to convey the structure of that world through representational narrative paintings.