Hiroto Tomonaga

Inspired by the moment between sight and recognition, Hiroto Tomonaga invites the viewer into a liminal world where vision and perception are disjointed. Working on large-scale canvases, the artist uses thin layers of oil paint, tempera, and wax to accumulate texture and evoke movement. The results feel untethered from the physical world, as if Tomonaga’s abstract forms exist only behind a shimmering, translucent veil. Tomonaga has exhibited across Tokyo, in solo shows at KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Gallery Binosha, and GALLERY WATER, and group shows at Changting Gallery and SOMPO Museum. In 2022, he won a judge’s prize at Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi and earned his MFA from Musashino Art University, where he studied painting.