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Represented Artist

Shohei Takasaki

Born in 1979 in Saitama, Japan, Shohei Takasaki lived in Portland, USA for 7 years before settling in Sydney in 2021, where he continues to live and work.

Using an array of mediums ranging from oil pastels, charcoal, and paint to found objects and fabric, Takasaki’s works depict recognizable subjects and abstracted motifs in bold colors, lines, and forms. Human figures and still-life scenes make up the core of Takasaki’s current practice, often featuring recurring imagery related to gender, violence, domesticity, and the cycle of birth and death. Although the things he depicts change in tandem with his constantly evolving interests, subjects such as flames, daggers, wildly overgrown plants, grids, plates of food, and the occasional egg or skull can often be found amidst the heads and bodies that populate many of his recent works, sometimes morphing from simplified shapes into pieces of complete abstraction.

Selected Artworks

exhibitions

Couch on the Hill (the tower will fall in two weeks)

Couch on the Hill (the tower will fall in two weeks)

8 Mar–6 Apr 2025
3 Hearts 9 Brains Blue Blood

3 Hearts 9 Brains Blue Blood

26 Nov–25 Dec 2022
Juxtapose, Arrange, Compare

Juxtapose, Arrange, Compare

2 Nov–11 Nov 2018

fairs

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EASTEAST_TOKYO 2025

7 Nov–10 Nov 2025
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Art Fair Tokyo

8 Mar–10 Mar 2024
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Tokyo Gendai

7 Jul–9 Jul 2023
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Art Fair Tokyo

10 Mar–12 Mar 2023
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Taipei Dangdai

20 May–22 May 2022
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Art Fair Tokyo

11 Mar–17 Mar 2022