Space776

Rainy day, 2022

Strange day So Wat Cha Sayin'

Strange Day, 2021

<SENIOR SKIP DAY>, LE DECO gallery, Tokyo, Japan


<Strange city>, Nepenthes NY Gallery, New York, USA


<COMPOSITION>, Cafe Grumpy, New York, USA


<Daidarabotchi>, Space776, New York, USA


<The Night Has a Thousand Eyes>, Space776, New York, USA


<Midnight Tour>, Space776, New York, USA


<WAH bridges to man's best friend dog>, WAH center Brooklyn, New York, USA


<In serch of verses>, The Sampler, New York, USA


<SHANTY EXHIBITION>, CS gallery at Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo, Japan


<STRANGE ʻNʼ BEAUTIFUL>, ANAGRA, Tokyo, Japan

<Strange day and night>, McCarren park, New York, USA


<STRANGE ʻNʼ BEAUTIFUL>, Shapeshifter Lab, New York, USA

<”see sea light”>, IAM gallery, New York, USA    

<Walk Night>, 3RD ETHOUS Gallery, New York, USA


<THE END IS ACTUALLY THE BEGINNING>, Masuii R.D.R gallery, Saitama, Japan

<Dance on Glass>, I am Gallery, New York, USA


<Itʼs a small gallery>, ANAGRA, Tokyo, Japan

<McCarren play center present: ART SHOW>, McCarren play center, Brooklyn, USA

B.F.A., Graphic Design, Tokyo Zokei Art University, Tokyo, Japan

Shuto Okayasu’s work explores the dual nature of the same thing; strange and beautiful, real and imagined, loud and quiet, chaos and harmony. Through the process of art marking, what he considers as an endless practice of recording and rebuilding, he lets his mind travel freely between the two worlds; offline and online, the present and the dream, and the past and the future. In Okayasu’s work, a complicated foreground with a crowd of vivid colors creates contrast with a simple and smooth background. Yet, they harmonize with each other in a consistent lonely quiet mood. Influenced by the sampling technique of hip hop, Okayasu chooses from what he caught visually and auditory in everyday life and his culture; Japanese Edo painting, anime, and cartoon, and combines their essence on canvas to appreciate and represent the world where he belongs to. His world is decadent and surreal, but at the same time, it is true to the actual world in some way and leaves us with hope.