TEIJI HAYAMA

Teiji Hayama's paintings join together western and Japanese influences, combining different art historical periods varying from Christian art, Greek mythology to contemporary Japanese pop culture and Ukiyo-E.   They depict pale, ethereal figures with frail bodies and pale tinted eyes, often inspired by well-known images of female deities, portraying an angelic appearance which clashes with a penetrating and unnerving glare directed at the viewer.   The figures are rife with sympbolism, a tradition in Christian art, there are signs of religious and spiritual devotion, pledges of love.   The tattoos depicted in the portraits, represent the seat of the emotions of the young girls, their convictions, belonging or identification with particular groups.

Teiji Hayama communicates the innocence of children by portraying nude girls. Nudity combined with innocence and vulnerability is often depicted in Japanese pop art.  Hayama also wants to show the transition from childhood to adolescence, a physical and mental transitional stage involving social and psychological changes.

"I want my portraits to have a psychological charge and the viewer to feel the fragility of this phase of life".

Education:
1998: Central Saint Martins London College of Art and Design

Awards:
2009: Nominated for the annual Swiss art scene exhibition organised by the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne Accrochage Vaud
2008: Nominated for the Sovereign Art Prize
2008: Nominated 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide Luerzer's Archive

Exhibitions:

Solo Exhibit
2009: solo exhibit, Galerie T40 Dusseldorf, Germany
2009: solo exhibit, Espace Arlaud Lausanne, Switzerland
2009: solo exhibit, Leslie’s Art Gallery, Luxembourg
2008: solo exhibit, Celebrities and Ghosts, Galerie L’Oiseau, Switzerland
2007: solo exhibit, Scenes d’interieurs, Nestle Centre de recherche Switzerland
2006: solo exhibit, Moon Project, Galerie Luna, Switzerland
2006: solo exhibit, WasserWaterEauAqua, Galerie Bassins, Switzerland
2005: solo exhibit, Dorobushi Ginza & Hiroo Tokyo

Group Exhibit
2009: group exhibit, Helene Nyborg Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009: group exhibit, Accrochage Vaud 2009, Espace Arlaud, Lausanne, Switzerland
2008: group exhibit, Saatchi emerging artists, Scope Basel, Switzerland
2008: group exhibit, The Painting Room, Transition Gallery, London, UK
2008: group exhibit, En Beauregard Gallery, Switzerland
2007: group exhibit, Zone Bleue, Villa Dutoit, Switzerland
2007: group exhibit, Galerie Edgar, Paris
2006: group exhibit, Talons Aiguilles, Art Generation Gallery, Paris
2005: group exhibit, CAMK, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan
2004: group exhibit, Supernatural, Sekiun Gallery, Tokyo