About

Eri Harigai New Media Artist

Growing up as a third-culture kid, I've always wondered: where do you call home when you're a mix of different places?

My art is really just my way of trying to figure that out. The digital worlds I create mix East Asian and Western aesthetics to create a visual space where these influences can coexist.

What I've realized, especially from talking to people with similar backgrounds, is that belonging isn't really about a physical place on a map. It's more of a feeling you find. You can discover it in a digital space, in a shared story, or just in a piece of art that really connects with you.

So my work is always changing as I keep exploring what that feeling of connection can be, especially now with technology and AI moving so fast.

A graduate of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Eri Harigai is a Tokyo-based new media artist who blends East Asian and Western aesthetics in her work. Inspired by her cross-cultural background, she explores shifting ideas of home and connection through an artistic practice spanning both physical environments and immersive virtual worlds.

She brings over a decade of experience in large-scale live visuals for television and concerts to an artistic practice that now ranges from award-winning projection mappings to intricate digital sculptures. Her work has been seen on a global stage, including light art at the EXPO 2025 World Expo in Osaka, on the facades of European cathedrals, and on the iconic billboards of Times Square.

Awards & Recognition

  • Grand Prix "Zlatko Slavenski" Award, Skopje Light Art Festival, North Macedonia

  • Top Ten Finalist, Zsolnay Light Art Festival, Hungary

Selected Exhibitions

  • EXPO 2025 World Expo, Osaka, Japan

  • Ars Electronica Festival, XRE's Ars Electronica Festival Garden NYC Portal, New York

  • Japan Annual-Intl. Art Festival, UNESCO World Heritage Site Daigo-ji Temple, Kyoto

  • Art Dubai, NFTAsia, New Media Section, UAE

  • ARTECHOUSE, NFT Art Showcase, Washington DC

  • Tokyosaï, Magasins Généraux, Paris, France

  • #GROWINTHEDARK featuring Eri Harigai, Tokyo Love Hotels, Tokyo, Japan

  • “Secret Room” as part of Van Gogh x Japan, Theatre Of Digital Art Dubai (TODA), UAE

  • Temporal Vision Public Billboard Feature, Times Square, New York

Talks & Presentation

  • Invited Speaker, 'Color, Time and the Blockchain,' a DMINTI x MOCA Presentation

  • Invited Presenter, 映像作家100人+NEWCOMER100,
    '100 Japanese Motion Graphics Creators +NEWCOMER 100” Event

Press & Publications

  • Featured In: Harper's Bazaar Arabia, Metropolis Tokyo

  • Publication: 映像作家100人, 100 Japanese Motion Graphics Creators + NEWCOMER 100 Book

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