Hajime Sorayama

Japanese born, Hajime Sorayama graduated in 1969 from Chubi Central Art School in Tokyo. He started his career in advertising before freelancing in Hollywood, where he helped to produce visuals for sci-fi films. His works of female images, pursuing of robot and eroticism are well known both inside and outside of Japan. He is one of the rare artists acclaimed at the same time by the most prestigious institutions of the art world, as well as by renowned Haute-Couture houses, erotic publications and multinational companies specialized in new technologies. Sorayama’s extensive oeuvre that centers upon an on-going pursuit for beauty regarding the human body and the machine has continued to receive high international acclaim, and his signature body of work entitled, the “Sexy Robot” series (1978-) had served to established his world-wide reputation.

Courtesy of Almine Rech