Toyomatsu Riku

2021 Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Oil Painting

Using memories and daily activities as clues, he explores the contours of being alive through paintings and drawings.

Starting from “memories of bread shared by others” in Sakhalin during the war, which my grandmother told me, I am interested in the continuity that individual experiences are passed on across time and bodies.

It is depicted as scooping up acts such as touching, eating, and gifting, and the sense of life that appears in traces accumulated in objects and spaces.

Also, flowers are treated as symbols of life that will pass through time to express signs of life and its fragility.

2021 Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Oil Painting

＜Main exhibition history＞

solo exhibition

2019 “Life” Cafe Hi Famiglia (Tokyo, Japan)

2024 Primus Wellness Kitchen & Market (Shiga, Japan)

2025 “Everyday Hotori” gallery café NICCO (Tokyo, Japan)

Group Exhibitions

2018 “Millennial ☆ Revolution” Rental Space Sakura Harajuku Takeshitaguchi (Tokyo, Japan)

“Grape Picking” galeria.mano.a.mano (Tokyo, Japan)

“Kizuna Exhibition” Uptown Koenji Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

2019 “Sunny Pool” Gallery Majerca (Tokyo, Japan)

2021 “MUSASHINO ART UNIVERSITY DEGREE SHOW 2020” Musashino Art University (Tokyo, Japan)

2023 “You, too, for kindness,” GALLERY 33 NORTH A (Tokyo, Japan)

2024 “Small Decorations” GALLERY IRO (Tokyo, Japan)

“Fragrance Exhibition” between galleries (Tokyo, Japan)

2025 “EPIC PAINTERS Vol.15” THE BLANK GALLERY (Tokyo, Japan)

“SEE SOME SCENE” GALLERY IRO (Tokyo, Japan)

“Don't Forget Death” gallery hydrangea (Tokyo, Japan)

2026 “blue fingertips” TOUTEN BOOKSTORE (Nagoya, Japan)

“New Year Group Show: PAPER WORKS 2026” THE BLANK GALLERY (Tokyo, Japan)