Christian Hidaka UK, b. 1977

Anglo-Japanese artist, Christian Hidaka (b.1977, Japan) is known for his own dreamlike figurative and landscape paintings with a unique mood created by the appearance of timeless characters and the saturated, bold colour texture of oil tempera. Fascinated by the history of pictorial space and the evolution of representational methods, his complex mental landscapes, in which his imagination and inner need for self expression are depicted as if they were scenes of a ceremony or an important event, are animated by an intimate associative logic through that disparate temporalities and spatial structures collide in the search for new pictorial forms.

In his signature style, he combines cultural references drawn from his autobiographical experience of Oriental culture to the Western art, such as old Japanese landscapes, science fiction, psychedelic literature, surrealism, futurism and Renaissance painting. In particular, Hidaka's recent interest in perspective reveals that the current impasse in painting might be alleviated by a fusion of two cultural traditions merged together like a hybrid spatial structure combining the Chiaroscuro technique of the Western tradition with the oblique perspective of Asian art.   

Christian Hidaka lives and works in London. He has held solo exhibitions at National Museum of Contemporary Art of Bucarest, Romania (2018), Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto (2019), CAC La Synagogue de Delme, Delme (2013) and has participated in exhibitions at Le Forum Hermes, Tokyo (2022), CAC Meymac (2022),  Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (2019), The Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis (2008) and The 3rd Beijing Biennale, UK Pavilion, Beijing (2008). His work is represented in the collections of Centre National d'Art Plastique, France, The Israel Museum, The Saatchi Gallery, UK, Sigg Collection, Switzerland, Colas Foundation, France and The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, USA.