About

Hirooki Hatori, portrait by MinKyung Choi
Photo: MinKyung Choi @akindoming
“Along the way, I started realising that I feel colours when I look at people. Everyone gives me a different colour — from their heart, their core.”

Hirooki Hatori (b. 1996, Fukushima, Japan) is a painter based in Vienna. He has painted more than 3,000 portraits around the world, working across watercolor, acrylic, oil pastel, and live painting performance.

He studied painting with a focus on Western art at Sunhwa Arts School and Sunhwa Arts High School, Korea (2009–2015).

Lives and works in Vienna

Statement

羽鳥は自身の「弱さ」や「脆さ」に向き合うことで、ありのままの 自分をキャンバスの上に曝け出す。それは、「虚栄心」や「自尊心」、 「トラウマ」によって蓋をしていた根源的な感情や初期衝動を キャンバスの上で取り戻す行為でもある。

多様な色彩感覚で描き出される「喜び」「怒り」「哀しみ」や 「心地よさ」などの感情は、渾然と混ざり合いながらもキャンバスの 中で同時に存在する。

時に躊躇い、苦悩しながらも鮮やかな色彩で表現される作品は、 私たちのさまざまな感情を肯定する。多種多様な価値観が入り混じり、 正解がひとつではない現代社会において、羽鳥の表現は、人種や信仰、 文化の壁などさまざまな障壁、偏見を取り払い、私たちの心象風景に 強く訴えかける一筋の光となり得る。

By facing his own weakness and fragility, Hatori lays himself bare on the canvas. It is an act of reclaiming the primal emotions and first impulses that vanity, pride, and trauma had sealed away.

Joy, anger, sorrow, comfort — emotions drawn out through his manifold sense of color mingle into one another, yet exist simultaneously within the canvas.

Hesitant and anguished at times, yet rendered in vivid color, his works affirm the whole range of our emotions. In a society where countless values intermingle and no single answer holds, Hatori’s expression clears away barriers and prejudices — of race, faith, and culture — and can become a ray of light that speaks directly to our inner landscape.

Sora Hoshino, Gallery PUNIO

Selected CV

Solo exhibitions

18 Jul — 14 Sep 2026

Cores e Faces do Japão

Galeria de Arte da Villa Francioni · São Joaquim, Brazil

2024

Erosion — Trace of Journey

Bar Telc. · Tokyo, Japan

Apr — Jun 2024

Self Portrait

Instituto Juarez Machado · Joinville, Brazil

Jan 2024

浸触 — erosion —

another place · Kyoto, Japan

Dec 2023

EROSION

Raft Art Gallery · Himeji, Japan

2023

Erosion — Trace of Journey

galerie Overdrive · Florianópolis, Brazil

Aug 2023

波紋 — ring of the water —

PUNIO · Kitasenju, Tokyo, Japan

Apr 2022

浸触 — erosion — forest of color

HAKT&Co. · Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan

Dec 2021

浸触 — erosion —

PUNIO · Kitasenju, Tokyo, Japan

Group exhibitions

Nov — Dec 2023

曬興 — Winter Illuminations & Art Exhibition

Takahashi Korekiyo-o Memorial Park · Tokyo, Japan

2021

renovation

Gallery conceal · Tokyo, Japan

Auctions

2025

YAA2025 — young art auction

ARTCARE · Vienna, Austria

2025

Charity Auction

Rotary Club · Vienna, Austria

2022

YAA2022 — young art auction

Flomyca · Vienna, Austria