Artist & Creator

Masaki Hirokawa

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Contemporary Artist & Digital Creator — Masaki Hirokawa

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Recipient of seventeen international art awards. Exhibiting across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and featured in art books and academic journals, Hirokawa creates work grounded in a distinctly Japanese sense of prayer — exploring collective psychology, the structures of perception, and fundamental consciousness.

His images trace the boundary between dream and reality, where human consciousness, beauty, and decay quietly intersect.

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Archetypus元型 · 2020
Uriel静謐な世界 · 2020
Reclining Buddha涅槃像 · 2020
Forgotten Sky忘却の眺め · 2020
The World in a Birdcage啓示 · 2020
A Regenerated World新世界 · 2020
Bodhisattvas of the Earth地湧の手 · 2020
Causal Sets葬列 · 2023
Avatar化身 · 2021
Eden林檎が落ちた日 · 2019
Distance心 · 2020
Peace平和 · 2020
Condolences悼む · 2020
Hanyō半妖 · 2020
Glance視線 · 2020
Kuan Yin Bodhisattva救世菩薩 · 2020
Archon偽神 · 2020
Faith盲信 · 2019
Astaroth静寂に凍る光 · 2020
Gnosticism知恵の実 · 2020
Imaginary Dream虚数の夢 · 2020
Inside Of Meある情景 · 2020
Moirai運命の肖像 · 2020
Burial at Sea水葬 · 2020
Dioscuriふたり · 2020
Narcissism自己愛の變形 · 2020
Grounding · 2020
Karma業 · 2021
Quiet静粛 · 2020
Avalokiteshvara権化 · 2020
Hesychasmヘシュカスムにおける神化の思想 · 2012
Pandora冀望 · 2009
Rain雨の日 · 2009
Hera異界の嫁入り · 2009
DOMINUS DIXIT AD ME寵愛 · 2020
Haniel記号なき世界 · 2025
Snow純真 · 2019
Crimson薔薇苑 · 2019
Division孤独 · 2019
Cocoon宵の繭 · 2019
Baphomet偶像 · 2020
Crow烏 · 2019
Scars白い鬼 · 2019
Aprodite豊穣の春 · 2020
Jophiel雲海 · 2020
Ariel失楽園 · 2021
Entering Nirvana入滅 · 2020
On a spring day春の日に · 2021
Midori · 2021
Aurora極光 · 2020
ALLELUIA遠神恵贈 · 2020
Seraphiel光明 · 2020
Vermilion丹朱 · 2020
Amphiaster双星 · 2021
Hod伊邪那美命 · 2020
Hope希望 · 2020
Ascension飛天 · 2020
Colors are shades of light色は光の影 · 2020
Nightingale戦場に咲く花 · 2019
Somnambulism離魂病 · 2020
Dreaming夢想花 · 2020
Carminusカルミヌス · 2020
Vajrayaksa金剛仏 · 2020
Prayer祈り · 2020
Remiel靜寂 · 2020
Vanishing消失の君 · 2020
Gabriel福音 · 2020
Sleeping Beauty眠り姫 · 2020
VIRGO MARIA救世光 · 2019
Lucifer宵の明星 · 2020

A work of art can become a quiet bridge —
connecting generations and languages,
and reconnecting our inner worlds with the wider cosmos in which we live.

Artist Statement
Apps

iPhone / Android Apps

Technology, too, can be a vessel for beauty. Designed with the same eye as the artworks, these apps have surpassed 50 million downloads and are used every day by more than 3 million people each month.

Beautiful 4K/HDR Wallpapers — promotional image of the wallpaper app
4K/HDR Wallpaper App

Beautiful 4K/HDR Wallpapers

Over 100,000 wallpapers, each hand-picked and delivered in 4K/HDR quality — for your home and lock screens. Updated daily since its launch in 2013.

App Store ★4.58 (67,314 ratings)

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Ukiyo-e Wallpapers — promotional image of the Japanese woodblock art app
Japanese Woodblock Art App

Ukiyo-e Wallpapers

More than 1,000 masterpieces by Hokusai, Hiroshige, Utamaro, and Sharaku. Each print is individually restored — creases and stains carefully removed — to preserve the vivid crimson and indigo of the originals.

App Store ★4.59 (2,784 ratings)

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Law of Attraction Everyday — promotional image of the wish support app
Wish & Habit Support App

Law of Attraction Everyday

Putting a wish into words, and returning to it every day — an app designed for these two practices. Compose your own affirmation from around 200 sample phrases, and let it grow into a daily habit.

App Store ★4.59 (5,371 ratings)

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Relaxing Healing — promotional image of the sleep and relaxation sounds app
Sleep & Relaxation Sounds App

Relaxing Healing

Healing music and ambient sounds — rain, birdsong, waves. As sleep approaches, the timer lets each sound recede little by little.

App Store ★4.37 (2,509 ratings)

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Web Branding

Giving your brand its form.

A website is not a business card — it is a work in itself. When beauty of form meets beauty of structure, a site becomes a brand.

From design and development to post-launch care, every step is handled by a single craftsman. An aesthetic sensibility shaped through contemporary art, and the engineering behind 50 million downloads, devoted to your brand.

  • Landing Page Production

    A single-page site that carries your world — typography and whitespace included in the design, delivered with mobile optimization, SEO, and social sharing setup.

  • WordPress Development

    A site you can update yourself, built on a custom theme. No ready-made templates — a design drawn up for your brand alone.

  • Website Production

    Multi-page sites such as corporate and portfolio websites.

  • Care & Maintenance

    Launch is not the end. Minor updates and fixes are covered for one year after release, included in the production fee.

  • Photo Retouching

    Color, texture, and detail — each photograph refined carefully by hand. Offered as dedicated retouching work, devoted to drawing out the beauty of the photograph itself rather than the creation of artwork.

  • Store Assets & Global ASO

    Screenshots, icons, and promotional imagery for the App Store and Google Play, produced with full multilingual support. Grounded in the global ASO experience behind 50 million downloads — store listing copy included in the conversation.

From ¥100,000 Tax included; care & maintenance included; one year of support after launch. Estimates and consultations are free of charge.
Profile & Awards

About Masaki Hirokawa

Masaki Hirokawa — Contemporary Artist & Digital Creator. A graphic and contemporary artist and app developer, recipient of 17 international art awards. Through exhibitions across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and features in art books and academic journals, he creates work grounded in Japan’s distinctive sense of prayer — exploring collective psychology, the cognitive world, and fundamental consciousness.

Drawing on natural symbolism, philosophical reflection, and imagery inspired by contemporary science, he seeks to soften the divide between the sacred and the secular, and to restore the subtle bonds between human beings and the natural world. Across his practice, subtle synesthetic sensibilities and a quietly mystical inspiration coexist.

Beginning with self-taught web design in 1997, his path led through systems engineering, writing for design publications, and game development to founding an independent app business in 2013. Since 2019 he has resumed full-scale art production — bridging art and technology, pursuing expressions that inhabit the space between the digital and the poetic.

  • PracticeContemporary art, graphic art / digital media
  • Awards17 international art awards (A’ Design Award, Fondazione Effetto Arte, and others)
  • ExhibitionsEurope, Asia, the Americas — Milan, Rome, Barcelona, Paris, Los Angeles, Ansan
  • Publications365 Art+ Magazine, Le Musee Plus, Imago, and many other international titles
  • Apps50M+ downloads in total; 3M+ monthly active users
  • CareerNearly 30 years since 1997 — from web and systems to art

Awards

受賞歴
2026 — 2026 POPDES #115 World Rankin…
2025 — International Prize: Award of…
2025 — International Prize: The New …
2025 — Luxembourg Art Prize: Meritor…
2025 — W* Recognition Winner - World…
2025 — Recognized as One of the Worl…
2024 — International Prize Phoenix f…
2024 — Global Art Virtuoso Award 202…
2023 — Harmony for Humanity - The Gl…
2023 — International Career Art Awar…
2023 — International Prize Michelang…
2023 — 2022-2023 Golden Design Award…
2022 — ITSLIQUID International Conte…
2022 — A' Design Award & Competition…
2022 — ITSLIQUID International Conte…
2021 — ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2021
  • 2022BEST COVER ARTIST AWARD - 365 Art+ Magazine (365 Art+ Business Magazine)
  • 2006MTV SO-ZO Competition (MTV Japan / AMD)

Exhibitions

展覧会歴
2025 — Ansan International Photo Fes…
2025 — KINTSUGI
2025 — TRACES OF DREAMS
2024 — LA ART SHOW - Los Angeles Art…
2023 — ENIGMI
2023 — RenovArt | Shapes of Nature
2023 — CENSORED
2023 — RenovArt | Panta Rhei
2023 — RenovArt | Flowing Identities…
2023 — FROM THE DISTANCE
2023 — RenovArt | Flowing Identities
2023 — artbook Gallery
2023 — Paris 2023 International Cont…
2022 — BRAIN CAKE 2022
2022 — ADRENOCROMO FOR DINNER 2022
2022 — RenovArt | 100 Artists for th…
2022 — GUARDIANS OF DREAMS 2022
2022 — PRETTY PERV 2022
2022 — International Digital Art Exh…
2022 — ORIZZONTI TRASVERSALI 2022
2022 — CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2022
2022 — RenovArt | 100 Artists for th…
2022 — International Contemporary Ar…
2022 — LIQUID ARSENAL 2022
2022 — RenovArt | 100 Artists for th…
2022 — ROME INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2…
2022 — VIFAF 2022 - Virtual Internat…
2022 — Avant Garde Exhibition
2022 — NFT - NEW FREEDOM THINK 2022
2022 — CANVAS INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR…
2022 — I THE WORLD REVOLVES AROUND ME
2022 — THE BODY LANGUAGE 2022
2021 — SACRIFICE 2021
  • 2023International Good Design Exhibition

Publications

掲載誌・書籍
2026 — Le Musee Plus Magazine Vol. 3
2025 — ANTHOLOGY THE LAST DECADE 201…
2025 — Le Musee Plus Magazine Vol. 2
2025 — Imago / Imago 2
2024 — Le Musee Plus Magazine Vol. 1…
2024 — Rothschild Fine Art -2
2024 — People Creating the 21st Cent…
2024 — The Best Contemporary Masters…
2024 — The Luxury Collection of Cont…
2023 — WORLD ART GUIDE 2023
2023 — PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE VISUAL CUL…
2022 — WE CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL…
2022 — ART ANTHOLOGY V: MADRID EDITI…
2021-2026 — 365 Art+ Magazine
  • 2026365 Art+ Mars City Project Vol. 1
  • 2024Digital Art Creators
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