Daisuke Takahashi

Born in Saitama, 1980. Lives and works in Saitama.

A painter. Following his debut, he began painting numerous works with several layers of thickly applied pigment, and became known for making pieces which powerfully show that paintings are materials before they are images. Starting around 2016, we may observe the seminal appearance of works with numbers, letters, and other signs, and a transition to paintings that take everyday objects as their motifs. Since around 2020, he has been experimenting in forms such as his Ashan series, which imagines and depicts a specific person of interest who is not known in any detail. Takahashi’s unflagging spirit of inquiry into painting is filled with anticipations of encountering an as yet unseen type of work.

His main exhibitions in recent years were Open Map (2025, ANOMALY, Tokyo), ASHAN (2023, CADAN YURAKUCHO, Tokyo), Doing Painting – A Bright Turnabout (2022, ANOMALY, Tokyo), Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2022 Energy Overflowing from the Gaze (2022, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum), Halfway Happy Vol. 5, Daisuke Takahashi – RELAXIN’ (2021, gallery αM), Sazaedo 2020 – Modern Spiral and a Hundred Paintings (2020, Art Museum & Library, Ota), NEW VISION SAITAMA 5 – The Emerging Body (2016, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama), Present-Day Paintings – Two-Dimensional Works of Four Artists (2015, Kawagoe City Art Museum), and The Way of Painting (2014, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery).

Public Collection

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Takahashi Ryutaro Collection