Senko Takahashi was born in Tokyo and worked as a graphic designer at HASHI STUDIO before turning to painting. Building on her interdisciplinary background in illustration, art direction, and visual design, she has gradually developed a unique artistic language. Since 2007, she has been active as a full-time artist in Japan and overseas, and since 2021, she has shifted her focus to deeper themes of physicality, life energy, and inner perception, creating works that combine philosophical depth with a contemporary context.
Profile
Born in Tokyo.
Graduated from Tama Art University (majoring in Japanese painting).
After graduation, I worked for four years at HASHI STUDIO (a design company related to photography and composition) in Tokyo.
She began working as an illustrator and graphic creator in 1999.
Since 2007, he has been creating art as an artist, with exhibitions as his main activity.
Starting in 2021, I will devote myself to artistic creation with a more focused attitude and carry out more authentic and continuous art activities.
Artist's Statement | Flow — A Perception of Life in Flow
After experiencing a serious illness, Nobumitsu Takahashi rediscovered the energy surging deep within his body and the subtle changes in his life structure. The "Flow" series was born from this rebirth-like experience.
The recovery process made her realize that the human body is not a collection of single organs, but a "microcosm" interwoven with cells, nerves and blood vessels, and its operation is closely connected with the natural world and even the broader cosmic order.
The "Flow" series uses visual terms such as "erosion, expansion, enlargement, and dissolution" to present the flow, fusion, and diffusion of energy, depicting the process of emotions and consciousness overlapping in change. Ultimately, it forms a life rhythm that symbolizes regeneration and cycle.
Our lives are always in flux.
Internal and external, pain and joy, brokenness and reconstruction are all constantly changing and together constitute part of the flow of life.
Nobumitsu Takahashi hopes that these works can become an opportunity for viewers to rediscover the rhythm of their own lives and realize that they are also cosmic particles that connect all things.
Artist's Statement | The Dissolution of Boundaries: The Birth of the "Face" as a New Landscape
"The outline is quietly loosening."
In today's era of rapid information flow and technological evolution, the boundaries between self and other, inner and outer worlds, emotions and information are becoming increasingly blurred. Social media has shaped new ways of seeing, and the rise of AI has further blurred the lines between "things created by humans" and "things not created by humans."
Nobumitsu Takahashi has been depicting the theme of "face" since childhood; for her, "face" is not only the entrance to perception, but also the outlet for the outward transmission of emotions, and a symbol of the complex communication structure of the contemporary world.
In an era where boundaries are gradually dissolving, people still yearn to retain their own "outline".
Through distorted, dissolved, and regenerated facial images, she captures "being in flux"—a moment as if conversing with another self, a process of redefining oneself within uncertain boundaries.
His work does not depict faces, but rather the gaps between faces, the flow between emotions and perceptions, and the constantly oscillating edge between self and the world.
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Solo Exhibitions
1994 Senko Takahashi Exhibition
2002 "Hana-Raku-fu" Ebisu Mitsukoshi / Mitsukoshi Gallery, Tokyo
2003 "Hanafuga" (Flower Style) - Matsuya, Ginza, Tokyo
2009 "The Story of Flowers" Art Complex Center, Tokyo
2019 "Bodhisattva's Mandarin" Ebisu Mitsukoshi / Mitsukoshi Gallery, Tokyo
2022 Solo Exhibition (Tomohiko Yoshino Gallery, Tokyo)
2023 The Frontier of Edge (Whitestone Gallery, Tokyo)
2024 "Flower Shadow - Landscape of Light" Fukuya Department Store, Hiroshima
2025 Edge—The Boundary Line That Flows (ShinQs Gallery 5, Tokyu Department Store Cultural Village, Shibuya)
/Touring exhibition "Edge—The Flowing Boundary Line", Tokyu Department Store Main Store / Plaza, Yokohama
