Hikaru Hori was born in Tokyo in 1995 and lives and works in Paris.

Working across abstract paintings, drawings, and texts, Hori’s practice explores memories as a source of imaginative energy. What draws him is that, by nature, our inner states are invisible, yet we can grasp emotional traces through analogies of physical phenomena — such as collisions and waves. Employing physics as a metaphorical framework, Hori investigates the materialisation of invisible movements of the mind through experimenting with the behaviour of pigments.

Inventing a distinct process for each project and medium, Hori’s practice seeks to discover a physical-mental alignment in which abstract patterns, gestures, and textures have the capacity to give form to our inner states. Central to this pursuit is the tactile quality of materiality. Referring to Walter Benjamin's concept of a dual mode of reception — touch and sight — bodily experiences are preserved in memory not as information, but as tactile sensation. It is this quality that materiality in his work aims to reawaken, allowing us to access sensations buried deep in the mind.

In 2017, he graduated from KEIO University in Tokyo, where he studied cognitive science, biology and geology before continuing his studies at the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL) in 2020. During his studies at ECAL, he was mentored by art historians and curators such as Claus Gunti and Marco De Mutiis. Since 2015, his works have been exhibited at the Tsubouchi Memorial Theater Museum, Tokyo, JP (2015), ANB Gallery, Tokyo, JP (2020), the Biennale dell'immagine, Chiasso, CH (2021), ECAL, Lausanne, CH (2022), Photobastei, Zurich, CH (2022), Galerie Eric Linard, La Garde-Adhémar, FR (2024), and Les Ateliers Wonder, Bobigny, FR (2025).