Hideaki Kawashima (1969)

Hideaki Kawashima

Hideaki Kawashima is a Japanese artist who lives and works in Tokyo.

After graduating from the University of Tokyo, he underwent two years of Buddhist temple training before beginning his career as an artist in 2001.

Hideaki Kawashima uses portrait painting and self-portrait masks to show the ambiguity of human life. His characters with expressive eyes express a spectrum of emotions: fear, desire, anxiety, longing. Yet these emotions are ambiguous. Kawashima brings touches of folklore, mythology and surrealism to androgynous faces.