Hiroshi Tachibana

Hiroshi Tachibana is a Japanese artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His work focuses on capturing pre-verbal, bodily sensations, the subtle fluctuations we feel before language or thought intervenes. Believing that our bodies react before our minds comprehend, Tachibana’s abstract portraits explore how these fleeting physical dissonances shape personal memory and social experience.

Using a unique mono transfer technique, he transfers gestural marks and traces of visual memory onto canvas, layering atmospheric textures drawn from his own photographs. This process allows him to fix residual sensations of encounters with people and moments throughout his life, building spaces where unspoken sensations linger. Tachibana has exhibited widely in the United States, Japan, Pakistan, and the UK.Notable exhibitions include I Shit You Not (2025) and The Night I Want to See You and Can’t Sleep (2020) at Young Knee Cool in New York; 50 Seconds at The Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo (2023); Asemic at Kristin, Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2015); and Displace / Reinstate at Ulterior Gallery, New York (2017). Additional presentations include MAT Nagoya, Soda Kyoto, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Zahoor-ul-ikhlaq Gallery in Lahore, and AAN Gandhara-Art Space in Karachi. His work has appeared in Artforum, Interview Magazine, ArtBridge, and NY Arts Magazine, which featured him in 30 Artists to Watch 2012. He has participated in residencies at Vermont Studio Center (2014), Murree Museum Artist’s Residency in Pakistan (2015), and Studio Project Vol.3 at MAT Nagoya (2016). Through his paintings, Tachibana offers viewers a moment to reconnect with dormant, pre-linguistic sensations, quietly unsettling the unconscious frameworks that shape how we perceive the world.

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