Exhibitions

Transmit Studio presents “Echoes of Life and Nature” at SCOPE Miami Beach 2025, featuring three Japanese artists: Tomotoshi Hoshino, Risa Murakami, and Keiko Yamagiwa. Hoshino channels the elemental power of nature, Murakami captures the fleeting rhythms reflected on water, and Yamagiwa reflects the emotions and connections present in everyday life through her distinctive approach. Though their methods differ, all three share a sensitivity to unseen forces, movement, and interconnection. Together, their works create a space where nature, life, and human experience resonate with one another, offering viewers a layered and immersive encounter.

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The exhibition Where Nature Speaks represents the traditional art of Nihonga, through the artistry of Tomotoshi Hoshino. Guided by the strength and mystery of nature, Hoshino’s paintings lead viewers into a deep spiritual world. In his work, nature is not simply a landscape, but a teacher that reveals important truths and holds a quiet, essential power. At the heart of his creative practice is the desire to express the deeper meanings and unseen qualities of nature through the traditional techniques of Nihonga. Through his art, he hopes to share this sense of power and insight with those who experience his work.

Nihonga, literally meaning “Japanese painting” is commonly used to distinguish Japanese paintings from Western paintings, a distinction is based on the materials being used. Mastering the necessary techniques requires considerable time and determination. However, the resulting nihonga style suits the natural features of Japan and the Japanese aesthetic sense and spiritual qualities.

In traditional Japanese painting, the process usually begins by transferring an under drawing onto the main paper, defining the forms with ink lines, and then applying layers of color to complete the work.

Hoshino deliberately disrupts this sequence. He weakens the adhesive, crumples the finished painting, and removes part of the pigment. Over this surface he applies gold leaf, then scrapes away more than half of it before it dries, creating a texture reminiscent of ancient paintings. Ink lines and colors are once again layered on top, bringing the work to completion. This distinctive technique grew out of a study of classical painting.

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Presented in association with the Embassy of Japan in Norway, as part of the official program marking 120 years of diplomatic relations between Japan and Norway:

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Solo booth HOSHINO TOMOTOSHI — Reverence for Nature in Gold and Light

Having held solo exhibitions in New York and Paris, Japanese painter Tomotoshi Hoshino has garnered international recognition for his distinctive vision. His work is defined by a refinement and delicacy that defy imitation, rooted in a profound reverence for the natural world.

Through his original technique of dispersing gold leaf across the surface, Hoshino infuses his paintings with a shimmering radiance that evokes the fleeting brilliance of the sea and sky. Each work reflects not only the appearance of nature, but the artist’s deeply personal dialogue with it—a meditation on light, time, and the emotions born from respect and awe.

Hoshino’s practice expands the language of contemporary Nihonga, offering viewers a unique lens through which to encounter nature’s eternal presence.

At SCOPE Miami 2024, Transmit Studio will present Poetry of the Sea and Nature, a two-person exhibition featuring renowned Japanese painters Tomotoshi Hoshino and Risa Murakami. Both artists regard nature not merely as a subject, but as a living medium—one that reflects time, emotion, and atmosphere through their distinct sensibilities and techniques.

Tomotoshi Hoshino captures the many faces of the sea—its shimmer, tranquility, and at times its wildness—using bold applications of gold leaf to illuminate the interplay of light and water.
Risa Murakami delicately portrays the reflections of nature on the water’s surface. Traveling to remote landscapes, she begins with sketches made on site, gradually translating the quiet depth and fleeting brilliance of these places into her paintings.

Together, Hoshino and Murakami offer two unique visions of “sea and nature,” inviting viewers into a timeless encounter with the natural world.

At Volta 2024, Transmit Studio will present Resonance of Nature and Light, featuring Tomotoshi Hoshino, Risa Murakami, and Wakamatsu Takashi. The exhibition explores the expansion of perception and emotion through each artist’s unique approach.

In this exhibition, materials and techniques themselves serve as conduits for thought and sensation. Hoshino’s monumental folding screens depict dynamic seascapes and rock formations, Murakami’s pearl-accented works capture subtle natural shimmer, and Wakamatsu’s mixed media pieces—photographs printed on aluminum panels with intentional markings—transform material and time into expressions of beauty.

Through these works, Transmit Studio presents a space where materials, light, time, and nature intersect, offering a contemporary reinterpretation of Nihonga and mixed media, and expanding the ways viewers engage with the natural world.

At SCOPE Miami 2023, Transmit Studio will present Connection with Nature, featuring artists ○△⬜︎, Tomotoshi Hoshino, and Akinori Haga, who explore the enduring relationship between humanity and the natural world through distinct artistic languages. For these artists, nature is not merely a subject but an active medium—one that carries memory, identity, and emotion.

Visitors will encounter works spanning both physical and digital realms: ○△⬜︎’s The last Kuromatsu Garden, debuting in Miami, integrates the DNA data of Japan’s black pine with a living tree, creating a rare fusion of ecological information and organic life. Installed before a dry landscape garden, the work invites moments of meditative reflection.

Tomotoshi Hoshino’s large-scale Nihonga paintings, inspired by the sea, shimmer with gold leaf, evoking the brilliance of Miami’s ocean. Akinori Haga’s watercolors, striking in their chromatic intensity, express the human presence within nature with an energy that defies the medium’s delicacy.

Through the interplay of ecology, tradition, and technology, the exhibition investigates how art can serve as both expression and conduit—bridging the tangible and the intangible—and seeks to expand our sensory awareness toward a renewed connection with the living environment.