Moriyama, Tadashi

Japan, 1979

Born in Tokyo in 1979, Moriyama grew up surrounded by anime and manga, which, together with his study of Eastern and Western Art, continues to inform his visual language. His complex compositions executed in ink and acrylic on paper and panel, address his unease about overdevelopment of the planet and the spiritual price we pay for technological interconnectedness. The artist has been influenced by science and science fiction, medieval paintings from the East and West, Buddhist philosophy and beyond. Moriyama strives to illustrate analogies across topics including cities and memories, dreams and myths, home and displacement. Moriyama’s vision of the world is bleak and colorful, dystopian and hopeful, all at the same time. His world encompasses chaos and order simultaneously and remains open to humanity’s ultimate recognition of its folly.