Hiroki Takahashi

Hiroki Takahashi is a Tokyo-based painter and illustrator whose work explores intimacy, identity, and human relationships through vivid color and shifting forms.

Working primarily in acrylic on paper, he brings figures and their surroundings into close contact, allowing their boundaries to blur. Expressive brushwork, overlapping shapes, and blocks of saturated color give familiar subjects an unexpected emotional presence. His paintings hold tenderness, humor, and unease together, inviting viewers to find their own connections within each image.

His compositions develop through repeated revisions. Figures, colors, and relationships change as he paints, as he searches for visual beauty and emotional depth. Alongside his painting practice, he works in digital illustration and has created wine and champagne labels for bars and special events in Tokyo.

He holds a B.A. from Kyoto University of the Arts. His background also includes financial journalism, editing, and five published books.

Kyoto University of the Arts, Faculty of Art Studies (B.A.)