Tatsuhito Horikoshi (b. 1985 Gunma Prefecture, Japan, lives and works in Gunma and Kanagawa Prefectures) is an artist known for his narrative portraits of boys and girls using thin layers of oil paint. His work reflects influences from a wide range of cultural sources, such as music and movies, as well as manga, anime, and illustrations.
The adolescent boys and girls depicted in his portraits often have slightly melancholic expressions on their faces. Horikoshi says he wanted to express “the loneliness that one person may feel in the midst of a whirlwind of excitement”. In the beginning, many of his portraits reflected his own desire for transformation, but in recent years, Horikoshi's own stories have been projected into the backgrounds of his works, while the figures have become more anonymous. It can be said that the background and the person are drawn together, pulling at each other. It is as if Horikoshi shows us how he went on an introspective journey back in time, to gain the ability to move forward his next steps in existence.
Tatsuhito Horikoshi has mainly been exhibited in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, France, and China. He graduated from Tama Art University with a MFA in oil painting.