Bio / CV

Go Hayakawa Art – Super Dekoboko
Bio / CV

Below is a concise overview of
Hayakawa’s artistic philosophy and career.

Artist Statement

“Super Dekoboko” is a framework for revealing the human misalignments and shifts that remain in a world increasingly driven by technological advancement and optimization.

My work comes from lived irregularities, not theories.

The traces on the surface—thickness, cracks, accumulated layers—are not emotional gestures but outcomes of continuous decisions.
They are not decoration, but the density of action itself fixed on the painting.

In a future where optimization becomes effortless,
efficiency, coherence, and the “correctness” of a finished form
will be accessible to everyone.
What becomes visible then are the differences—
where a person hesitates, where they lean, and what they respond to.

My practice fixes these individual variations directly onto the surface.
I do not reject technological progress;
I am interested in the “unevenness” of being human that emerges beyond it.

For a more personal context behind this practice, see
Journal 7 — When Boundaries Wear Down.

Bio

Born in Japan in 1976.
I did not enter the institutional art route,
but I have continued my practice consistently.

My working environments were never stable,
and that irregularity has become part of the “shifts” visible in my paintings.
Grounded in abstract expression,
I treat material thickness and layered surfaces as forms of human bias.

Selected involvement includes:

“The Trajectory of Nihonga
– Inheritance and Discontinuation, Imitation and Creation”,
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts (Tochigi, Japan)
“Contemporary Japanese Nihonga Exhibition”,
Shijiazhuang Art Museum (Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China)
Produced paintings featured in the film
“Under the Same Moon” (2005, Japan)

A full record is available in the CV.

CV

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Painting Contemporary Japan, Nine Gallery, Tokyo (2024)
Solo Exhibition, Sakuma Art Gallery, Tokyo (2023)
Hot Silence, Fuji Gallery Shinjuku, Tokyo (2020)
Solo Exhibition, The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo, Tokyo (2018)
Solo Exhibition, Galerie Paris, Yokohama (2022, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2011)
Solo Exhibition, Yasashii Yokan Gallery (now closed), Meguro, Tokyo (2015, 2012, 2010)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022 – The Trajectory of Nihonga – Inheritance and Discontinuation, Imitation and Creation, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi
2019 – Contemporary Japanese Nihonga Exhibition, Shijiazhuang Art Museum, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China
2024 – Byōbyō Exhibition, Sato Museum of Art, Shinjuku, Tokyo
2024 – SEN Exhibition – Nihonga, Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art, Kyoto

Awards / Recognitions

2016 – Selected for the Dojima River Award 2016, Osaka
2011 – Selected for the Garyūzakura Nihonga Grand Prize Exhibition, Gifu
2002 – Selected for the Nitten – The Japan Fine Arts Exhibition, Tokyo
2002 – Selected for the Setsuryōsha Firenze Prize Exhibition, Niigata
2002 – Selected for the Ryūshi Kawabata Prize Exhibition, Tokyo

Collections

Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan
Shijiazhuang Art Museum, China
Hebei Academy of Fine Arts, China
Yunma Art Museum, Shanghai World Financial Center, China

Selected Press / Media

Bijutsu-no-Mado (The Art Window), 2018–2024
Monthly Art Magazine Bijutsu, 2015–2019
Art Collectors’, 2015 & 2017
Hyakubei Art Magazine, 2007
TV interview, Chiba Television, 2011
Coverage in Asahi Shimbun, Yomiuri Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, and Kanagawa Shimbun (2013–2019)
Early coverage in local press and art magazines (2001–2012)

Teaching / Professional Experience

2013–Present – Founder and Director, Go Hayakawa Art Program (Tokyo, Japan)
An artist-run program offering drawing and painting instruction for adults, created to sustain and expand his own artistic practice.

Representation

Independent artist based in Tokyo, Japan.
Has previously exhibited with Sakuma Art Gallery (Tokyo, 2023) and Fuji Gallery Shinjuku (Tokyo, 2020).
Currently open to international gallery representation and exhibition opportunities.