Naoto Hattori

About

Naoto Hattori is a Japanese surrealist painter born in Yokohama in 1975, renowned for his intricate, dreamlike artworks featuring bizarre hybrid creatures with wide eyes reflecting landscapes. He studied graphic design in Tokyo before moving to New York to earn a BFA in illustration from the School of Visual Arts in 2000. Influenced by street art, graffiti, traditional Japanese culture, Buddhist philosophy, and surrealists like Salvador Dalí and Hieronymus Bosch, Hattori paints intuitively in acrylic on small panels, a style necessitated by cervical spondylosis that limits his movements to wrists and fingers.

Surrealist with dreamlike hybrid creatures, fuzzy wide-eyed beings, and biomorphic landscapes