Tokyo is about to be swallowed whole by chrome, light, and fantasy. NANZUKA is opening the doors to SORAYAMA: Light, Transparency, Reflection – TOKYO, the most expansive exhibition the legendary artist Hajime Sorayama has ever had — and it’s less a show than a full-scale dive into his metallic universe.
Sorayama has spent decades perfecting his language of reflections, glass-like surfaces, and hyperreal bodies that blur the line between desire and machine. This retrospective turns those obsessions into a nine-part, walk-in experience that moves from early drawings to towering new sculptures and immersive video installations.
Photos: Hajime Sorayama courtesy of NANZUKA
Some sections feel almost cinematic. “The Gallery” displays his latest oversized canvases, where light bends and slides across bodies the way only Sorayama can render it. “Aquarium” resurrects his infamous shark — often called “the sexiest fish” — a piece that embodies the erotic-mechanical tension he’s built an entire career on.
Elsewhere, the show becomes interactive. “TREX,” inspired by the dinosaur books he loved as a kid, transforms prehistoric fantasy into something sleek and otherworldly. The “Mirror Maze” surrounds visitors with reflective sculptures that send distorted versions of themselves ricocheting through the space — part funhouse, part futuristic hallucination.
Photos: Hajime Sorayama courtesy of NANZUKA
For diehard fans, the Archive Room might be the most emotional moment of all. Here you’ll find original drawings from his work on the Sony AIBO robot dog, plus documentation from collaborations with Dior, Roger Dubuis, and other major fashion and luxury houses that have tapped into his glossy, eroticised vision of the future.
Together, the sections piece together a portrait of an artist who treats light, surface, and desire as materials — someone who has shaped science-fiction aesthetics as much as he has influenced fashion, tech, and pop culture.
SORAYAMA: Light, Transparency, Reflection – TOKYO runs from March 14 to May 31 at CREATIVE MUSEUM TOKYO.