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Raymond Ishii

Raymond Ishii (b. 1993) is an African-Japanese artist whose practice is shaped by a multicultural upbringing and a formal background in graphic design, having graduated from the Graphic Design Center in Japan. Working across painting and material-based experimentation, Ishii develops a visual language that examines difference not as something to be resolved, but as something to be sustained.

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Central to his work is the concept of Non-Assimilated Painting—a method in which materially and procedurally distinct elements coexist without collapsing into a single unified surface. Rather than blending materials into harmony, Ishii deliberately combines substances with conflicting physical properties and allows their separations to remain visible. The painting becomes a site where difference is not neutralized through integration, but held in tension and made structurally present.

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Through this approach, Ishii proposes an alternative understanding of diversity—one grounded in coexistence rather than assimilation. His work reflects an idealistic yet materially precise vision: a space where multiple identities, textures, and systems can occupy the same field without erasure, producing compositions that are both visually complex and conceptually charged.

EDUCATION
2020    BFA, Graphic Design Center, Tokyo, Japan


SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026    Focus Fair, Jakupsil, New York, USA

2024    Convergence des Matieres, Galerie Aki Arichis, Paris, France

              Young Creators Award 2024, Grand Prix, MI Gallery, Osaka, Japan
 

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