b.1990, Saitama, Japan

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Shuto Okayasu is a visual artist based in New York. Okayasu’s paintings, drawings and sculptures reflect his everyday reality and dreams, mixing eastern and western sensibilities. His work records both mundane and transcendent aspects of urban living, and the often-unpredictable scenarios he encounters in New York City. Okayasu uses drawing and photography as a reference point for his patchworked painterly collages referencing such diverse sources as film, hip-hop culture, traditional Japanese painting and woodblock prints, manga, anime, abstract expressionism and European old masters.

 

Okayasu received his BFA from Tokyo Zokei University. He has apprenticed with two of perhaps the most well-known Japanese contemporary artists outside of Japan: Takashi Murakami (2012-13, Saitama, Japan) and Tomokazu Matsuyama (2015-2021, New York). Okayasu has participated in numerous solo and group exhibition internationally, including PLATO, New York (2025, 2024); Tang Contemporary, Hong Kong (2024); Kyoto Tsutaya, Kyoto, Japan (2024); The Rockefeller Center, New York (2023); Oil Gallery Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan (2023); Ginza Tsutaya Ginza Six, Tokyo, Japan (2022); Space 776 Gallery, New York (2021, 2020, 2018) and Greenpoint Gallery, New York (2018), among others.

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