Teiji Hayama
Teiji Hayama's work join together western and Japanese influences, combining different art historical periods varying from Christian art, Greek mythology, subculture to Japanese culture.
The portraits are pure and barly covered. Nudity is not nakedness, but a form of innocence – one and unique entity showing the purest essence of the human being.
Hayama's artwork depict young girls evolving into women, a physical and mental transitional stage involving social and psychological changes. They represent messengers whose glassy, ambiguous gazes remind the viewer of the importance of life.
"I want my portraits to have a psychological charge and the viewer to feel the fragility of this phase of life".
Teiji Hayama is a Japanese painter, he is known for his supernaturalism elongated, milk- skinned nymphs paintings. Hayama was born in Japan in the island of Kyushu, he grew up in Kumamoto in a large family of artists. Ancient and modern, traditional and eccentric, simply and extraordinarily contradictory, immersed in a Shinto environment and studying in a Protestant Christian school, influenced Hayama's artistic expression. After high school, Teiji Hayama moved to London where he studied art and fashion.
Born Japan 1975
Lives and works in Switzerland
EDUCATION
1995 -98 Central Saint Martins London College of Art and Design
1999 - Assistant designer & creation Cabane de Zucca, Issey Miyake Group, Tokyo
Nominated for the annual Swiss art scene exhibition organised by the Musée Cantonal des Beaux.Arts Lausanne Accrochage Vaud 2009
Nominated for the 2008 Sovereign Art Prize
Nominated 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide Luerzer's Archive 07/08
SOLO SHOWS
2013 Thomas Punzmann Fine Arts, Thir-Teen, Frankfurt
2012 E¦C Gallery, INNO-SCENTS... Chicago
2011 Krisstel Martin Gallery, INFANTARIVM, Singapore
2011 Galerie T40, Düsseldorf, Germany
2010 Galerie T40, NYMPHS, Düsseldorf, Germany
2010 Janine Bean Gallery, Is this desire?, Berlin, Germany
2010 Willem Kerseboom Gallery, IDENTITEEN, Amsterdam
2010 Kunstraeume Zermatt, MADONESSENCE, Switzerland
2009 SCOPE ART SHOW Basel 2009 with Galerie T40, Germany
2009 Leslie's Artgallery ContemporaryArt, Luxembourg
2009 Galerie T40, INNOCENCE, Düsseldorf, Germany
GROUP SHOWS
2016 Galerie Geraldine Zberro, Paris
2015 BLOOOM Art Show, Cologne, with PinkZeppelin Gallery, Berlin
2015 Galerie Géraldine Zberro, Beautiful Bizarre, Paris
2015 CHG CIRCA, Dreamlands, Culver City, CA
2015 PinkZeppelin Gallery, Floating Intersections, Berlin
2015 Metro Show Art Fair, NYC, with Stephen Romano Gallery
2014 Stephen Romano Gallery, Cornu Copiae, Brooklyn
2014 Manila Art Fair, Endangered Visions, curated by G. Semper, Manila
2014 Ayden Gallery, Hikari, Vancouver
2014 Dublin Art Fair with Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin
2014 La Luz De Jesus Gallery, The Coaster Show, Los Angeles
2014 Hillsboro Fine Art, Gallery and Invited Artists, Dublin
2014 Stephen Romano Gallery, Mysterium Cosmographicum, Brooklyn
2014 Hillsboro Fine Art, Collected, Dublin
2014 Scope Art Show New York with C.Emerson Fine Arts, Florida
2013 Galerie Rothamel, Dollhouse, Erfurt
2012 Scope Art Show Basel with Willem Kerseboom, Amsterdam
2012 Scope Art Show New York with C.Emerson Fine Arts, Florida
2011 Le Radar, Basse-Normandie, France
2011 C. Emerson Fine Arts, Lucid Dreams, Saint Petersburg, Florida
2011 Mio Mao Gallery, Perugia, Italy
2011 Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, The New Lost Generation, Roma, Italy
2011 Galerie T40, 7 Years Anniversary Review, Düsseldorf, Germany
2010 PAN Amsterdam with Willem Kerseboom Gallery, Amsterdam
2010 Aqua Art Miami with Galerie T40, Miami
2010 Berliner Liste with Galerie T40, Berlin
2010 SCOPE ART SHOW BASEL with Galerie T40 & Willem Kerseboom Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2010 Mess Gallery (at Saatchi Gallery), London
2010 Art Amsterdam RAI with Willem Kerseboom Gallery, Amsterdam
2010 Artantique Jaabeurs Utrecht with Willem Kerseboom Gallery, Amsterdam
2010 The Affordable Art Fair London with bo.lee Gallery, Bath
2010 Helene Nyborg Contemporary, The Hello Show, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010 The Affordable Art Fair 2010 Brussels with Leslie's Artgallery
2009 The Affordable Art Fair 2009 Amsterdam with Willem Kerseboom Gallery
2009 PAN Amsterdam 2009 with Willem Kerseboom Gallery
2009 Lelsie's Artgallery, New Figurative Contemporary Art, Luxembourg
2009 Holster Projects, GODS AND RITUALS, London
2009 Espace Arlaud Lausanne, Accrochage Vaud
2009, Switzerland
2008 SCOPE ART SHOW Basel 2008, represented by Saatchi Online London, Basel, Switzerland
2007 Transition Gallery, The Painting Room, London
