Self-portrait: My name is Hiroomi Ito. “I am a safe person for everyone. I am a theist, but I don’t belong to any particular religion. I am not hiding anything., 2017

Hiroomi Ito (Tokyo, 1970), is a Japanese artist based in Barcelona. Due to his compositions,
technique and characteristics, when observing Hiroomi Ito’s work, the first impression is of
being in front of a Nihonga creation (日本画) or a Japanese classical painting. However, a
more in-depth study of the pictorial discourse, together with the artist’s life trajectory on
Catalan soil, shows us that there really is a latent identity debate, with much analysis of his
country of origin.