YOSHIROTTEN
Born in 1983. Pisces. YOSHIROTTEN is an artist who moves fluidly between the realms of fine art and commercial art, digital and physical, urban youth culture and the natural world.
After solo exhibitions in Tokyo, London, and Berlin, YOSHIROTTEN held a large-scale exhibition FUTURE NATURE at TOLOT heuristic SHINONOME in 2018. Under the theme of “visualization of invisibles”, he presented a huge installation combining two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and video works in a 1,300 square meter space. Since then, YOSHIROTTEN has been active internationally: he participated in the Tokyo Pop Underground exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch in New York, and his Resolution series, which reconstructs photographs by Daido Moriyama and Wing Shya, was exhibited at Isetan Shinjuku, Tokyo, and then in Guangdong, China, and Hong Kong.
In 2021, YOSHIROTTEN began working on the SUN series, which consists of 365 digital images depicting silver suns in a variety of media, including installations, aluminum prints, NFT, vinyl records, and books, then a large-scale installation of the series was exhibited in April 2023 at the Japan National Stadium’s Large Vehicle Parking Lot. He is also an art director with a wide range of clients spanning European and American luxury fashion brands, domestic and international musicians, Tokyo underground clubs to contemporary art fairs. With his own design studio YAR, he handles a vast amount of work in almost all areas of commercial visual arts, including advertising, events, logotypes, interior/exterior design, web, and video.
Two collections of his works, GASBOOK28 YOSHIROTTEN and GASBOOK33 YOSHIROTTEN were published from GASBOOK.
Selected Projects
