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KEI HINOTANI Kei Hinotani
Kei Hinotani is a contemporary artist from Kanazawa, Ishikawa, based in Okinawa. Experiences associated with meditation led him from figure modeling into contemporary art. Through historical civilizations, currency sy...
Artist Profile
History, currency, idols.
Reconsidering values across time.
About the artist
Kei Hinotani is a contemporary artist from Kanazawa, Ishikawa, based in Okinawa. Experiences associated with meditation led him from figure modeling into contemporary art. Through historical civilizations, currency systems and idolatry, his work reconsiders social values and the structures of belief.
He worked under the name TARTAROS until June 2026 and began using his real name, Kei Hinotani, as his artist name in July 2026. TARTAROS continues as his studio and trade name.
Artistic practice
Ukiyo-e banknote paintings
Using genuine banknotes and gold and silver leaf, this series connects ukiyo-e, other traditional Japanese art and classical imagery from around the world with the present. Historical images and the currency supporting today’s economy share one surface, making the mechanisms of beauty and value visible.
Contemporary idol art
Beyond mythological and religious images, he treats nations, money, film, games, characters and fashion as contemporary objects of devotion. Reassembling symbols from antiquity to the present, he questions forms of belief and consumption in the twenty-first century.
Meditation and making
His paintings approach images arising in meditation at the boundary of figuration and abstraction. Working across sculpture, digital modeling, modeled forms and conceptual methods, he makes the emergence and formation of an image a subject of his practice.
Selected solo exhibitions
- 2017「PULP FICTION」Lumpa Lumpa (Ishikawa)
- 2020「IDEA」Minnano Gallery (Tokyo)
- 2021「Ukiyo-e banknotes」Gallery Atos (Okinawa)
- 2021「World exchange」Gallery TAGBOAT (Tokyo)
- 2022「浮世絵紙幣2022」Contemporary Tokyo (Tokyo)
- 2023「AFTER POP」Gallery TAGBOAT (Tokyo)
- 2024「Variation」Contemporary Tokyo (Tokyo)
- 2025「浪速のことは 夢のまた夢」Hankyu Men’s Osaka
- 2025「浮世絵紙幣絵画展」Daimaru Tokyo Art Gallery
- 2025「浮世の美ら海」Ryubo Gallery (Okinawa)
- 2025「波ノカミ 写シ移シノ 美シキ」Ginza Tsutaya Books
- 2026「浮世絵紙幣絵画展―北斎と筍崖夕照―」Urasoe Art Museum
- 2026「黄金ノ波上」ryubo art gallery (Okinawa)
- 2026「BUKE」Matsuzakaya Nagoya
Selected art fairs and exhibitions
- 2023 ART TAIPEI (Taipei)
- 2023–2025 ART021 Shanghai (Shanghai)
- 2024–2026 The London Original Print Fair (London)
- 2026 paper positions (Berlin)
- 2026「Re-Composition」Gallery TAGBOAT (Tokyo)
Collections and awards
- Collection of Hanling Art Museum, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
- 2014 Work selected for the 9th TAGBOAT AWARD
- 2014 TDW ART FAIR Special Jury Prize, Yusaku Imamura Prize
Curatorial projects
- 2019「VR工芸 今日の神殿―Regeneration」Planning, curation and participation
- 2022「Post Imagine」ASTER (Ishikawa)
- 2023「Post landscape」ASTER (Ishikawa)
Sources and artistic practice
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