Hiroshi Sugito (Japanese, b.1970) is a painter who gained international recognition in the context of the Tokyo-Pop movement. He was born in Nagoya, Japan, and spent his childhood in the United States. Sugito returned to Japan in 1986 and met Yoshitomo Nara, one of the founders of the Tokyo-Pop movement, from whom he took lessons in drawing in preparation for his studies in art. In 1992, Sugito graduated from the Aichi Prefectural University of Arts in traditional Japanese-style painting.

Sugito’s paintings depict imaginary, dreamy scenes that seem to originate from memory and childlike fantasies. Separate from the ‘Super Flat’ aesthetic of many of the Tokyo-Pop artists, who draw their inspiration from manga comics and animé films, Sugito’s work is rooted in a contemporary Japanese aesthetic and in the traditional painting style of Nihonga. His recurring themes, such as mountaintops, waves, blossoms, and birds, as well as military airplanes, missiles, or fire, are often hovering with vibrating colors and vaguely discernible objects.

Sugito has held solo exhibitions at the Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo, Arndt & Partner in Berlin, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York, Mark Foxx in Los Angeles, Galeria Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea in Milan, and Galeria Fortes Vilaça in São Paulo.

He currently lives and works in Nagoya, Japan.