Artist in Residence: Tomohiro Hanada

Artist in Residence
Ruang MES 56

Public Presentation
19/4/2024
19:00 WIB

Ruang MES 56
Jl. MAngkuyudan no 53A
Mantrijeron Yogyakarta 55143

Tomohiro Hanada (1986) is a Japanese visual artist working with photography as a tool to reflect and deconstruct the invisible in visible. His artistic practice is deeply rooted in personal experience, based on observation, exploration and questioning of the extraordinary that emerges from the ordinary.

Moving between familiar and unfamiliar, Hanada continually investigates the possibilities of photography, layering reality and abstraction. Memory and emotions play an important role in the creative process, and intuition and calculation make up his photographs. His creative philosophy aims to challenge the suspension of thought caused by daily routines and to shed light on the overlooked in everyday life.

Hanada is a graduate from the Neue Schule Für Fotografie in Berlin, Germany and the Omura Beauty Fashion College in Fukuoka, Japan. Before moving towards photography and visual art, he has worked in New York and London as a fashion designer’s assistant and stylist. After living abroad for 10 years, He moved to Fukuoka Prefecture, where He was born and raised in 2019, and moved into the Art Residence Kiyoshima Apartment, Beppu, Japan in 2022. Currently based in Fukuoka and Beppu.