Kazuhiro Hori
JAPAN
Painter Kazuhiro Hori creates cloyingly sweet, candy-coated dreamworlds inhabited by Japanese schoolgirls and bedeviled ephemera of their adolescence. Rendering evil stuffed animals, blood-colored gooey jam, and menacing toys with lifelike accuracy, his compositions directly reference traditional shunga (erotic Japanese prints) in order to explore pressing themes related to the mental health and abuse of Japan’s adolescent youth.
Born in Tokyo, Hori graduated from Kanazawa College of Art and currently teaches contemporary art and drawing in Japan. Awarded the 2018 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine art prize, his work is celebrated internationally. Kazuhiro began showing with Arch Enemy Arts in 2017 after applying to our Spotlight Showcase, and he has appeared in more than ten shows with the gallery since.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Catalog of works.
Below is a list of all works from solo and group exhibitions. Any pieces marked with a red dot have been sold.
"Offering" (2024) acrylic on canvas 25.7" x 12.8" $2050 USD
"Resurrection Spell" (2024) acrylic on canvas 19.7" x 19.7" $2,300 USD
"Temptation" (2024) acrylic on canvas 11.8" x 9.8" $1,300 USD
"Buried" (2023) acrylic on canvas 11.8” x 11.8” $1,450 USD
"Blue" (2024) acrylic on canvas 13.11 x 9.53” $1,350 USD
"Crucifixion" (2024) acrylic on canvas 19.7" x 9.8" $1,500 USD
"Breeze" (2022) acrylic, foil on canvas 17.25" x 20.25" framed to 26" x 23" $2950 USD
"Sanctuary" (2024) acrylic on canvas 17.7" x 17.7" $2050 USD
"Paeonia" (2023) acrylic on canvas 11.8” x 11.8” $1,450 USD
"Wave" (2024) acrylic on canvas 16.1" x 12.5" $1,700 USD
"Drifter" (2023) acrylic on canvas 11.8” x 11.8” $1,450 USD
"Still Pink Life" (2023) acrylic on canvas 12" x 12" framed to 13" x 13" $1850 USD
"Celebration" (2023) acrylic on canvas $2100 USD
"Falter" (2023) acrylic on canvas 17.71" x 9.84" $2000 USD
"Moon in The Daytime" (2022) acrylic and foil on canvas 12" x 12" framed $1700 USD
"Vertigo" (2022) acrylic on canvas 14" x 14" $1700 USD
"Invitation" (2021) acrylic on canvas 19.68" x 9.8" framed to 21.25" x 11.41" $2250 USD
"Sweet Rain" (2021) acrylic and foil on canvas 9.8" x 19.65" framed to 10.6" x 20.4" $2275 USD
"Melancholia" (2021) acrylic on canvas 17.75" x 17.75" framed to 20" x 20" $2850 USD
"Let it Snow" (2020) acrylic, oil, and foil on canvas 11" x 21" framed $2700 USD
"Blessing" (2020) acrylic on canvas 24" x 12" $2050 USD
"Paaaaang!" (2015) acrylic on canvas 15.75 x 27.5" $2400 USD
"Metamorphosis" (2016) acrylic and silver leaf on canvas 13.2 x 9.5" $1200 USD
"Rondo" (2016) acrylic on canvas 13.2 x 13.2" $1400 USD