Hirose Shoko

Contemporary Artist / Illustrator

Tokyo-based contemporary artist and illustrator.

Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2018, majoring in Oil Painting.

After working as a designer in the video game industry, Hirose now develops her practice across both contemporary art and commercial illustration.

Hirose’s work explores contemporary perception in which the boundaries between information and materiality, fiction and reality have become increasingly ambiguous. By combining digital imagery with oil paint, resin, reflective materials, and semi-sculptural layered structures, she examines how images acquire physical presence and how material objects are transformed into information.

Under the name Hirose, she is also active as a commercial illustrator, producing work for video games, publishing, music, Hatsune Miku-related projects, and other forms of visual media.

Alongside her contemporary art practice as Shoko Hirose, she works in the field of commercial illustration under the name Hirose, developing the two practices in parallel.

Hirose graduated from the Oil Painting Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2018. After graduation, she worked as a designer in the video game industry, contributing to character design, 3D modeling, and other aspects of console game development.

She began publishing illustration work primarily through social media in 2019 and has worked as a freelance illustrator since 2022.

Under the name Hirose, she has produced commercial illustrations for HATSUNE MIKU: COLORFUL STAGE! and other Hatsune Miku-related projects, as well as Japanese and international game titles including Arknights, Azur Lane, GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE, and Reverse: 1999. Her commercial work also includes projects related to NIJISANJI VTubers, music video illustrations, and light novel-related projects.

Hirose’s commercial practice focuses primarily on character illustration and includes character design, costume design, promotional illustration, and music video illustration, with visual work developed according to the requirements of each medium and project.

https://shokohirose.com/commercial-illustration-works/