Hikaru Fujii

Born in 1976, artist and filmmaker Hikaru Fujii lives and works in Tokyo. Fujii studied at ENSAD (Paris) and obtained DEA (MA) from Université de Paris 8. He creates video installations that respond to contemporary social problems. He makes use of extensive research and fieldwork investigating existing systems and structures, based on the idea that art is produced out of the intimate relationship between society and history. Rather than presenting his research into past events just as it is, he has continued to use his work to attempt reinterpretations of the issues from contemporary perspectives.
His work explores modern education and social systems in Japan and Asia as well as the nature of museums and art museums.

Working both in visual art and cinema fields, he has been working with various media addressing social and political situations in Japan. His recent fi­lms won both international and domestic acclaim. Recently He won Grand Prix of the Nissan Art Award 2017.