Fuzuki Arai
Contemporary artist integrating ancient aesthetics and multimedia performance. His work, influenced by the sound of the conch horn in Shugendo, an ancient Japanese practice that blends Buddhism and Shintoism, is a fusion of this age-old tradition and modern digital technology.
As a child, he was unable to walk freely due to a leg ailment, but miraculously recovered through the process of drawing. This profound experience sparked a lifelong pursuit of understanding the truth of this world, which can also be interpreted as living rightly.
Through the practices of waterfall meditation and mindful contemplation, he reaffirms the connection between his own existence and the world around him. The resulting works encourage viewers to contemplate the profound truth at the center of this world.
EDUCATION
2002 Tama Art University, Information Design, Japan
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 “Wind of Kanra, Vibration of the Earth”, Nagaoka Kesakichi Memorial Gallery, Gunma, Japan
2023 “Everything is Connected Exhibition 2023”, Night Out Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2022 “Galaxy Words Exhibition 2022”, Ginza 7th building gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2021 “Galaxy Words Exhibition 2021”, Hama House, Tokyo, Japan
2019 “Dual exhibit”, Whitestone Ginza New Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2019 “ALL IS IN YOURSELF EXHIBITION”, Hama House, Tokyo, Japan
2016 “Fuzuki Arai Exhibition”, Gallery Darmado, Tokyo, Japan
2014 “Flower Project”, D-labo Tokyo Midtown, Tokyo, Japan
2014 “Flower Project”, Consulate General of Japan, New York, United States of America
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 “Abstract Mind“, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo, South Korea
2025 “Marginal Art Fair Fukushima Hirono“, Futatsunuma General Park, Hirono
2024 “Peru Biennale“, Aeronautical Museum of Peru, Peru
2023 “Order & Chaos”, Art Collide, Wilmington
2022 “Abstract Art“, Collect art, Tbilisi, Georgia
2022 “WONDERS“, The Holy Art gallery, London, UK
2022 “Asia Digital Art Award”, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2021 “Katsushika Hokusai and Next Generation Artists”, Hokusai Museum, Nagano, Japan
2020 “Independent Tokyo 2020”, Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center, Tokyo, Japan
2018 “MONROE ART”, Nakameguro Lounge, Tokyo, Japan
2015 “Arab Week 2015 Art Exhibition”, Embassy of the Sultanate of Oman, Tokyo, Japan
2002 “Information Design Artworks”, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
2001 “Double-Takes”, About Cafe, Bangkok, Thailand
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Enjoying the color” Artwork Gallery Magazine, June, 2024
“The Expansion of Consciousness: Heading Towards Radiance” Geijutsu Shincho, December, 2023
“ONBEAT Feature” ONBEAT vol.18 , May. 2023
“Abstract Art Artists” Collect art Magazine, November. 2022
“Flowing jewelry box” Bijutsutecho, November. 2020
“Global fighting artists” D-labo Magazine, August. 2014
“Tokyo Artists” Art4D Magazine Thailand, September. 2001
LECTURES/PRESENTATION
2014 “Disaster and Art”, D-labo Tokyo Midtown, Tokyo, Japan
2007 “Dance and Development”, Akha Christians Church, Mae Suai District, Thailand
AWARDS
2024 Awarded the Charter of Transdisciplinarity 30th Anniversary Commemorative Award by the UNESCO Chair in Transdisciplinarity
2015 Certificate of Appreciation from the Ambassador of the State of Palestine and the Ambassador of Sultanate of Oman
Listening to the Voice of Mountains, Reading the Signs of Wind, and Sensing the Divine in Birds’ Songs
Ling Sayuri Chen Scholar of Ancient Arts and Culture
Born and raised in Gunma, Japan, Fuzuki Arai grew up surrounded by the mountains and rivers of his homeland, cultivating a sensibility deeply attuned to nature.
“To listen to the voice of mountains, to read the breath of wind, to perceive meaning in the song of birds — beyond the confines of reasoning,— what matters is to open the body and receive the sounds and presence of nature.”
This way of being is the very essence of Shugendō (修験道), Japan’s ancient tradition of mountain asceticism — a path that values experiential and sensory transformation over intellectual understanding. Through this rigorous discipline, Arai has forged a rare artistic practice grounded in the direct experience of body and spirit. A symbolic act within this practice is the blowing of the conch shell (法螺貝, horagai). Its resounding call across the valleys has, since ancient times, served as a medium connecting heaven and earth, a means for Yamabushi (山伏, one who prostrates oneself on the mountain) to commune with the forces of nature. Arai takes this tradition and augments it into the realm of contemporary art. Arai inherits this tradition , transforming it into the realm of contemporary art.
At the heart of Arai’s art lies not a mere pursuit of beauty, but a profound meditation on the relationships between “self and nature,” “inner and outer worlds,” and “human and cosmos.”
Among his representative works, “Galaxy of Hope” stands out as a unique creation in which the precision of digital technology harmonizes with traditional Japanese craftsmanship, employing Washi(和紙) acrylic, and ink. The work evokes abstract nebulae and flashes of light, portraying the rhythm of creation and respiration within the cosmic expanse — a rhythm in which human breath and galactic circulation intertwine. It holds within it what might be called a “memory of vibration,” as if the echo of a conch shell still resounds in the depths of the viewer’s being. For Arai, the galaxy is an extension of the inner spiritual world; He has created this unique visual language as “Cosmoglyph,”where the birth and shimmer of the stars resonate with the vital rhythm dwelling in the depths of human consciousness. His works thus propose a vision of the universe as a continuous field — one that bridges earth and cosmos, the minute and the infinite.
Arai’s art arises from visions born of revelation through nature, awakening in the viewer a deep resonance of the soul. His experimental spirit moves freely the abstract and the symbolic, reviving in the present the long-forgotten sense of communion once shared between humans and the natural world. Grounded in the ancient spirituality and cosmology of Shugendō (修験道), his practice employs installation-like methods and contemporary artistic language to create a unique expression.
In an era that questions how science and artificial intelligence can coexist, Fuzuki Arai’s work invites us to reconsider the role of human intellect and creativity. His work bridges tradition and modernity, the individual and the cosmos, inner experience and universal inquiry — opening new horizons for artistic expression.