Biography
Born in 1994
From Tokyo, Japan
Roy Taro is portraying a world where Jade Sun shines.
Jade Sun is the green sun glows in the sky.
His main media are painting and poetry.
What the artist expresses is the inner mythology within him,
as he crosses the boundary of the world with the fictional sun and local landscapes and cultures.
He graduated from Waseda University in Japan in 2016 with a major in law.When he was a senior, he visited Yap island in Micronesia. He lived as the local, saw the tropical wood where crabs walked on and fathoms of the blue ocean, the silver nights of the stars and the moon. Then, he realized that there is something like a valley between where he is and the world having the life breathing. He had felt being away from art. After graduation, he realized his path was art, started photography and writing in 2017, painting in 2018.
STATEMENT
Through the dual mediums of painting and poetry, I explore how images of landscape transforms between language and vision.
At the core of my work lies the fictional sun emanating green light, born from the egg at the beginning of this world. This symbol named Jade Sun, it exists outside the realm of known nature and functions as a device to defamiliarize familiar landscapes. The star with green light comes from the poem below, it is in between visual and linguistic signs:
Jade Sun is radiant
somewhere in this world
In my painting practice, I collect landscapes through drawings and photographs while conducting research at seas, mountains, and islands. Based on this research, I paint on canvases with the colors of a world where the green sun exists. As the colors of an unknown world are incorporated into the landscapes we see in cities, mountains, and seas, the scenery undergoes transformation. It can be said the process of familiar landscapes becoming unfamiliar ones.
Each landscape we see is unique in every moment. I aim to create images that only I can paint. While my works serve as documentation of specific places, they are simultaneously reconstructions through poetic imagination. The visual fragments collected through photographs and drawings transform through the painting process, taking on different hues. These connect to the linguistic, poetic world where the star emanating green light.
EDUCATION
2016, Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from Waseda University, Faculty of Law
SOLO / DUO EXHIBITION
2024 "Landscape: Hidden Sun" CREATIVE SPACE HAYASHI, Kanagawa, JAPAN
2024 "Cosmo Egg" Open Studio, Kyodo Atelier/ plum gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN
2024 "The Yellow Sky" Space Noboru, Tokyo
2023 “Raven Eats The Sun” CREATIVE SPACE HAYASHI, Kanagawa, JAPAN
2023 “Jade Sun” SOMSOC GALLERY, Tokyo
2023 “Jade Room Represents” Kyodo Atelier/ plum gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN
2023 ”The Sky In Bright Like Stars” Gallery TK2, Tokyo, JAPAN
2022 ”Sea Of Rage” CREATIVE SPACE HAYASHI, Kanagawa, JAPAN
2022 ”A Bird Flying To The Sea” Kyodo Atelier/ plum gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN
2022 “Jade Sun” Gallery TK2, Tokyo, JAPAN
2021 ”Jade Sun, And It Comes” Kyodo Atelier/ plum gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN
2021 “Life Poesy”(Ryo Chin and Roy Taro) Chin Gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2024.5.1 - 5.31 "Jade Sea" SAKE&GALLERY, Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, JAPAN
GROUP EXHIBITION
2024 ”Marginal Art Fair”, Futatsunuma General Park, Hirono, JAPAN
2024
TSURUMI PUBLIC ART PROJECT, weTREES, Kanagawa, JAPAN
2024 ”Marble with...” LIGHTHOUSE GALLERY, Tokyo, JAPAN
2024 ”SOMSOC ART SHOW 24 A/W” SOMSOC GALLERY, Tokyo, JAPAN
2024 "Moon Put In The Spinning Water" Eri Kiwa, meow, Roy Taro, Kyodo Atelier, Tokyo, JAPAN
2024 ”SOMSOC ART SHOW 24 S/S” SOMSOC GALLERY, Tokyo, JAPAN
2024 “Inbetween” Miyuki Inagaki, Naoya Ishikawa, Yuki Tsumura, Roy Taro,
CREATIVE SPACE HAYASHI, Kanagawa, JAPAN
2023 ”SOMSOC ART SHOW 23 A/W” SOMSOC GALLERY, Tokyo, JAPAN
2023 "Beyond the Soul" performance art festival, Nagano, JAPAN
2023 “LITTLE SHOP OF ZINES at ENOSHIMA”
Gallery＆Cafe Gigi, Kanagawa, JAPAN
2022 3331 ART FAIR、Tokyo（CREATIVE SPACE HAYASHI）, JAPAN
2022 “50＋α” Gallery TK2, Tokyo, JAPAN
2022. “Salvation Room” （Eri Kiwa、meow、Roy Taro）Cadoromo Space, Tokyo, JAPAN
2022*Beyond The Invisible Border
(*The art project based in Tokyo, Sponsorship by Tokyo), Kyodo Atelier / plum gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN
CURATORIAL WORKS
2024 “Inbetween” Miyuki Inagaki, Naoya Ishikawa, Yuki Tsumura, Roy Taro, CREATIVE SPACE HAYASHI, Kanagawa, JAPAN
COMMISSIONS
2025 Collaboration with RUMCHE POPUP, Omotesando Hills, Tokyo
PROJECT
2020
*Ré-enchantement, France
（*Project to reach art to medical scenes against COVID ）
