Outlaw Waltz

“The fear of ‘not understanding anything’ makes me terrified, so I want to expose and uncover the ‘you’ standing right in front of me.” This raw mixture of fear and desire toward genuine, life-sized communication is the root of my creative concept. In my practice, while continuing to create works that deal with macro perspectives on society and the times, I have also begun to work on pieces that take my own extremely personal experiences and emotions as their motifs. For example, just as both the time I spend time outside connecting with society and the time I return home to be alone in my room lost in thought are equally indispensable to me, in my creative process I feel like I’m constantly moving back and forth between micro and macro viewpoints. I feel that these different scales have recently begun to coexist naturally within me. August 2019 – Honorable Mention, High School International Art Exhibition April 2023 – Entered Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Oil Painting October 2023 – Grand Prize, Gallery Minoya Student Selection Exhibition 2023 November 2023 – Group Exhibition “Ichiren Kairō” by four first-year oil painting students, Higashi-Ginza Hikohiko Gallery January 2024 – “Watashi Tokyo vol.15 Kowairo,” ABAB UENO Uenoshita Studio May 2024 – Group Exhibition “ANA” by eight second-year oil painting students, Koenji gallery33 June 2024 – “ABAB Closing Grand Appreciation Festival,” ABAB UENO Uenoshita Studio August 2024 – Blue Period × CONVERSE Collaboration Exhibition “BLUE'S,” CONVERSE TOKYO Miyashita Park September 2024 – First Solo Exhibition “What Lives Beneath Your House,” Gallery Minoya February 2025 – “CROSS OVER Vol.50,” Senso Art Gallery Cafe, Johor Bahru, Malaysia March 2025 – Group Exhibition “Arutokoro,” Harajuku Art in Gallery March 2025 – “Ari Tazaki Exhibition,” Ginza Tsutaya Books, in front of the information counter July 2025 – Group Exhibition “Chiasm,” aplloit August 2025 – “CROSS OVER Group Exhibition in Hong Kong from Japan,” LO Gallery, JCCAC, Hong Kong September 2025 – “ROOM 206 vol.3 ‘still alive’,” Shibuya Hikarie November 2025 – Solo Exhibition “My Room on the Second Floor,” GALLERY ROOM・A November 2025 – “INCHEON ART SHOW,” Songdo Convensia Hall 2, 3, 4 December 2025 – “Ari Tazaki Exhibition,” Kyoto Tsutaya Books December 2025 – The NY Resilience Award: Healing Through Art 2025, Agora Gallery, Chelsea, New York