BIO
ARTIST PROFILE
2019–2022 Hawaiʻi Preparatory Academy
2023–2025 Toyo Institute of Art & Design
2025–present Otis College of Art and Design
= 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.
<EXHIBITIONS>
【個展】
2024 「Takada Brothers: Twins Exhibition」(GAFU -gallery & space-、埼玉)
2025 「The Moment」(あかね画廊、東京)
【グループ展】
2025 「第 76 回 東洋美術学校卒業制作展」(東京都美術館、東京)
<WORKSHOPS/ PROJECTS/ DESIGNS>
2024 壁画制作プロジェクト(福岡)
2024 キッズアート教室ボランティア(東京)
2024 キッズアート制作ワークショップ(埼玉)
2025 T シャツデザイン制作プロジェクト(⻑野)
