Biography               日本語 Japnese CV

Born in 1994. Based in Tokyo, Japan.

Works in painting and poetry.

At the core of his practice is extensive research into existing mythologies, natural environments, and regional cultures.

During his final year of university, Taro visited Yap Island in Micronesia. His experience living with the local community, coupled with his pilgrimage to Mt. Omine in Nara—the birthplace of Shugendo—exposed him to the otherworldly realms existing between humanity and nature. These encounters led him to pursue art as a means to materialize these invisible sensations.

He began working with photography and poetry in 2017, and painting in 2018. He also conducts auto Narrative, an ongoing archival project on WordPress that compiles fragmented poetry into a continuous series.

Poem: auto Narrative 1 (since 2024.9.1)

https://roytaro.wordpress.com

STATEMENT

My practice proceeds through painting and poetry — distinct disciplines that occasionally bleed into one another. Painting translates the world into image by way of color and form; poetry, by way of language. Each has its own mode.

Visits to Yap Island in Micronesia and to sites of Japanese mountain worship attuned me to what lies on the far side of the world I know — to the presence of the otherworldly. That sensation persists as a quiet dissonance as I move through the crowds of Tokyo, the capitalism castle in Japan.

To render the invisible visible, I paint into my works what I call Jade Sun : a sun emitting green light. When the chromatic logic of the light source is inverted, the world takes on color according to another set of laws. Jade Sun is a fictive luminary, hatched from an egg at the moment the world came into being. As it rises into the sky, the landscape grows unfamiliar, and the rules by which we ordinarily inhabit the world come undone. What rises in their place is the landscape of another dimension — one that may be seen by beings other than human.

The larger subject running beneath the work is the relation between the natural world and the human. Every painting carries imaginary notes, they belong to fiction. Fiction opens perception, yet in its wake the particulars of the reality fall away. Through fieldwork in particular places — undertaken via drawing, language, photography, and conversation — I gather those particulars back: myth, oral tradition, the textures of human activity. This sharpens the resolution of the experiences of mine, that born painting and poetry. 

Painting and poetry are an attempt to question the contour of the world and to widen — by a little inches — the territory of our inhabitation.

EDUCATION

2016, Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from Waseda University, Faculty of Law

SOLO / DUO EXHIBITION

2026 "Sun Gazer" Gallery Tanabe, Tokyo, JAPAN

2025 "Landscape of The Sun" ok gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN

2025 Duo "Jade Light Burns Still" Kyodo Atelier/ plum gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN

2025 Duo "Jade Sun And UnUsFLOWer" (Roy Taro, YORECORDAR), EnDehors, Tokyo, JAPAN

2024 "Landscape: Hidden Sun" CREATIVE SPACE HAYASHI, Kanagawa, JAPAN

2024 "Cosmo Egg" Open Studio, Kyodo Atelier/ plum gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN

2024 "The Yellow Sky" Space Noboru, Tokyo

2023 “Raven Eats The Sun” CREATIVE SPACE HAYASHI, Kanagawa, JAPAN

2023 “Jade Sun” SOMSOC GALLERY, Tokyo

2023 “Jade Room Represents” Kyodo Atelier/ plum gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN

2023 ”The Sky In Bright Like Stars”  Gallery TK2, Tokyo, JAPAN

2022 ”Sea Of Rage” CREATIVE SPACE HAYASHI, Kanagawa, JAPAN

2022  ”A Bird Flying To The Sea” Kyodo Atelier/ plum gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN

2022 “Jade Sun” Gallery TK2, Tokyo, JAPAN

2021 ”Jade Sun, And It Comes” Kyodo Atelier/ plum gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN

 2021   “Life Poesy”(Ryo Chin and Roy Taro) Chin Gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

2025 Hirono Artist In Residence, Hirono, Fukushima, JAPAN

2024  "Jade Sea" SAKE&GALLERY, Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, JAPAN

GROUP SHOW

2025 / 2026  "Enoshima Art Festival", Enoshima island / Samuel Cocking Garden, Kanagawa, JAPAN

2025 "Marginal Art Fair 2", Hirono, Fukushima, JAPAN

2024 ”Marginal Art Fair”, Futatsunuma General Park, Hirono, JAPAN

2024 - 2025

TSURUMI PUBLIC ART PROJECT, weTREES, Kanagawa, JAPAN

2024 ”Marble with...” LIGHTHOUSE GALLERY, Tokyo, JAPAN

2024 ”SOMSOC ART SHOW 24 A/W” SOMSOC GALLERY, Tokyo, JAPAN

2024 "Moon Put In The Spinning Water" Eri Kiwa, meow, Roy Taro,  Kyodo Atelier, Tokyo, JAPAN

2024 ”SOMSOC ART SHOW 24 S/S” SOMSOC GALLERY, Tokyo, JAPAN

2024 “Inbetween” Miyuki Inagaki, Naoya Ishikawa, Yuki Tsumura, Roy Taro,

CREATIVE SPACE HAYASHI, Kanagawa, JAPAN

2023 ”SOMSOC ART SHOW 23 A/W” SOMSOC GALLERY, Tokyo, JAPAN

2023 "Beyond the Soul" performance art festival, Nagano, JAPAN

2023 “LITTLE SHOP OF ZINES at ENOSHIMA”

Gallery＆Cafe Gigi, Kanagawa, JAPAN

 2022  3331 ART FAIR、Tokyo（CREATIVE SPACE HAYASHI）, JAPAN

 2022 “50＋α” Gallery TK2, Tokyo, JAPAN

2022.  “Salvation Room” （Eri Kiwa、meow、Roy Taro）Cadoromo Space, Tokyo, JAPAN

2022*Beyond The Invisible Border

(*The art project based in Tokyo, Sponsorship by Tokyo), Kyodo Atelier / plum gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN

CURATORIAL

2024 “Inbetween” Miyuki Inagaki, Naoya Ishikawa, Yuki Tsumura, Roy Taro, CREATIVE SPACE HAYASHI, Kanagawa, JAPAN

COMMISSIONS

 2025 Collaboration with RUMCHE POPUP, Omotesando Hills, Tokyo

PROJECT

2020

*Ré-enchantement, France

（*Project to reach art to medical scenes against COVID ）

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