Hikari Shimoda is a “child-like” painter from Nagano, Japan. An artist that portrays children at a surface that feels delicate, cute yet expressing a darker reality in children.

“Children aren’t the carefree souls we oblivious grown-ups presuppose them to be. They suffer humiliation, sexual embarrassment, loneliness and hollowed out abandonment. That’s some pretty heavy emotional baggage, but whatever these real or imagined children are thinking is buried in the pretty pastel world where they reside. The presence of Teddy bears, birthday cakes, blue skies with fluffy white clouds, however, are still no match for the sad biography of childhood, interrupted.” -Hikari Shimoda






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