Tomoko Hisamatsu is a painter born in Mie, based in Saitama, Japan. She completed her MA in Japanese Painting (Nihonga) at Tohoku University of Art and Design, Yamagata. Moving between places, she creates mainly figurative paintings and drawing on research into the culture and history of each location, and on her encounters with people in local communities. Recent exhibitions include “VOCA 2026” (2026, Ueno Royal Museum of Art, Tokyo), solo exhibition “Geographical Conditions and Life” (2025, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery, Tokyo), “Shin Japanese Painting: Innovative Japanese Paintings” (2023, POLA Museum of Art, Kanagawa), etc. She received the POLA Art Foundation Overseas Study Grant for Young Artists and spent one year in New York City from 2022 to 2023.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 Geographical Conditions and Life (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery/Tokyo)
2024 Places and People (Trine Gallery/Tokyo)
2018 ARKO2018 Hisamatsu Tomoko (Ohara Museum of Art/Okayama)
2014 Kitakata Sake Barrel Paintings (Shinjuku Ophthalmology Gallery/Tokyo)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 VOCA2026 (Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo)
2025 Aoi the Gallerist & Leila the Villainess: A Glamorous Contract for a Second Life (TAV GALLERY/ Tokyo)
2025 Lingua Franca (Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo/Tokyo)
2025 Life without Art (Nito/ Tokyo)
2024 Fukushima Sake Brewing - Brewing Sake and Brewing Japanese Style - (Fukushima Prefectural Museum/Fukushima)
2024 Fellow Travelers of the Canvas: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection (Yamagata Museum of Art/Yamagata)
2023 Shin Japanese Painting: Revolutionary Nihonga (POLA Museum of Art/Hakone)
Awards and Scholarships
2022 Overseas Study Grant for Young Artists, POLA Art Foundation (Destination: The U.S.)
2015 Encouragement Prize, The 7th Koji Kinutani Award
2015 Toshiko Okamoto Prize, The 18th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art
Public Collections
Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Yamagata-city, Japan
