Kotaro Machiyama

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Japanese artist Kotaro Machiyama creates distinctive abstract paintings inspired by the beauty of time and space.
The colourful and cartoon-like nature of Kotaro’s canvases make for eye-catching statement pieces.
Kotaro majored in Dye at the Tokyo Zokei University of Art & Design.

Japanese artist Kotaro Machiyama lives and works in Tokyo and creates bold and colourful abstract paintings inspired by the beauty of time and space. Kotaro’s powerful and vibrant works transport viewers out of the present and into another realm.

Kotaro Machiyama’s Craft

Kotaro’s craft has a refreshing illustrative style; there is something of Roy Lichtenstein and the Pop Art movement but with a difference. Kotaro is interested in the desire to get closer to an object because of our attraction to it. Acrylic paintings such as the flamboyant and all-consuming Be Different appear to be zoomed in on, transporting viewers into another cartoon-like dimension. Kotaro often drafts his work on photoshop first to streamline that crisp, digitally accomplished quality that characterises his paintings. Block colours and flat surfaces enhance the vitality and animated nature of Kotaro’s canvases, making for eye-catching statement pieces.

Press and Exhibitions

Kotaro has taken home numerous awards in Japan, including the prestigious Daikokuya Contemporary Art Award as well as the International Art & Design Visual Art Award from 6F Citizens Gallery. The artist has also placed in the top 3 at the US ARTslant Showcase Competition. Kotaro has showcased his works in group and solo exhibitions at prominent galleries in Japan and South Korea.

Selected Works

Fly by Kotaro Machiyama

Fly

Paintings - 80x100 cm
Reason/ (clipping series - frame) by Kotaro Machiyama
Time (clipping series - frame) by Kotaro Machiyama

Time (clipping series - frame)

Paintings - 27x22 cm
See-parallel by Kotaro Machiyama

See-parallel

Paintings - 100x80 cm
Give (clipping series - frame) by Kotaro Machiyama

Give (clipping series - frame)

Paintings - 27x22 cm
Give (clipping series - understand) by Kotaro Machiyama
See (clipping series - understand) by Kotaro Machiyama

I (clipping series - receive)

Paintings - 91x73 cm

Half awake

Paintings - 97x130 cm

Reason

Paintings - 130x97 cm

Time

Paintings - 117x91 cm

Give

Paintings - 117x91 cm

There is

Paintings - 117x91 cm

On to the next

Paintings - 130x97 cm

Which

Paintings - 146x97 cm

Breath

Paintings - 97x146 cm

From

Paintings - 53x46 cm

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