Taiyo Okamoto

Taiyo Okamoto is a Japanese artist born in the coastal town of Karatsu, where the horizon dissolves into memory. His early years were shaped by long hours beside the sea, gazing at light moving across water, and feeling the subtle dialogue between body and world.
He has lived in New York City since 2002.
Working across photography and painting, Okamoto explores the threshold where the visible and invisible meet. His practice is rooted in a sensitivity to presence, and to the moment just before form becomes recognizable. Influenced by his foundation in chigiri-e, a technique of tearing and layering paper by hand, his works carry a tactile awareness even when expressed through lens or pigment.
His images often reveal discovered fragments of larger inner landscapes, where nuance and intensity, motion and stillness resonate in a tender pas de deux. For Okamoto, the body is the locus of perception, the medium through which reality is experienced and transformed.
Rather than simply seeing, he invites the viewer to deeply sense and awaken to something that has always been there, just beyond the surface.
Okamoto appears in HANAGATAMI, directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi.

Solo Exhibition
“INVISIBLE PLANETS”, Astoria Art Center, Astoria, NY (2025)
“A Tender Time”, The Holy Art, London, England (2021)
“The Cosmic Vibes“, New York Art Wave Project, New York, NY (2021)
Greenville Country Club, Wilmington, DE (2021)
Blend, Brooklyn, NY (2018)

Group Exhibition
"PARADICE Social", Seven House Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2026)
NADA Miami | Gallery: Paradice Palase, Miami, FL (2023)
“No Love Without Humanity & Courage”, Rio III Gallery, New York, NY (2023)
“Sojourner”, curated by Kyoko Sato, Sojourner Gallery, New York, NY (2023)
“Spliced Connections: Intergenerational”, curated by Juan Hinojosa, JCAL, Queens, NY (2022)
“A Soft Many Colored Plain”, Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, NY (2022)
“The Secret Garden”, virtual, (2022)
“Persona”, The Holy Art, London, England (2021)
”Join Feelings”, Suho Memorial Paper Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (2019)
“Sheets”, d’Art Center, Norfolk, VA (2019)
Art on Paper | Gallery: New York Art Wave, New York, NY (2019)
Ashok Jain Gallery, New York, NY (2017, 2018)