“HIROYUKI DOI Pen & Art 2025 Art Making Workshop”
led by Hiroyuki Doi and Yoshiko Otsuka

“HIROYUKI DOI Pen & Art 2025 Art Making workshop” led by Hiroyuki Doi and Yoshiko Otsuka; See more details in Japanese. 日本語でのイベント情報はこちら

This is our 13th “Art Making Workshop” in Chuo City Marugoto Museum in Tokyo.

Japanese chef turned self-taught artist, HIROYUKI DOI draws many small circles on washi, Japanese handmade paper to create his mesmerizing Circle Drawings. Through his artworks, DOI tries to express human dialog, the co-existence of living creatures, the soul and peace.

Through his artworks, DOI would like to send a message to future generations that we can create a lot of things with our own hands, even art.

Since 2001 when his artworks were shown at the Outsider Art Fair in New York, he has received critical recognition in the US, Europe, Australia and Japan.

HIROYUKI DOIʼs artworks were exhibited at American Folk Art Museum (New York), Halle Saint Pierre (Paris), La Maison Rouge (Paris), the Museum of Everything (London, Paris), Pinacoteca Agnelli (Torino), Museum of Old and New Art (Berriedale, Tasmania), Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College (Poughkeepsie), Pen Station Museum (Tokyo), Intuit: the Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art (Chicago), the Menil Collection (Houston), the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan), Collection de lʼArt Brut (Lausanne), Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery (Tokyo), Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati) and the Menil Drawing Institute (Houston).

HIROYUKI DOIʼs circle drawings were auctioned at Christieʼs New York in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2025.

HIROYUKI DOIʼs works are in the Collections of The Foundation to Promote Self Taught Art Inc (New York), American Folk Art Museum (New York), Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, New York), The FRAC Picardie (Amiens, France), The Foundation Antoine de Galbert (Paris), The Museum of Everything (London), The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation (Mount Kisco, New York), PILOT CORPORATION (Tokyo), John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, Wisconsin), The Menil Collection (Houston), Intuit: The Center for intuitive and Outsider Art (Chicago), The Rosenthal Collection (Cincinnati, Ohio), The Rockefeller Foundation (New York) and Kumaya Art Museum (Hagi-City, Japan).

Roberta Smith (2002) of The New York Times says, “ …They are delicate, mesmerizing and unusually beautiful…” on Hiroyuki Doi’s artworks.
Roberta Smith (2002), “ART IN REVIEW; Hiroyuki Doi,” The New York Times, December 27, 2002. https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/27/arts/art-in-review-hiroyuki-doi.html

HIROYUKI DOI will have a special show at Ozu Gallery, Tokyo in 2026 to celebrate his 25 years of artistic journey since he made a debut at Outsider Art Fair in New York in 2001.

HIROYUKI DOI New York Debut 25th Anniversary

March 30 - April 11, 2026
Ozu Gallery (OZU WASHI, Tokyo)
Mon-Sat: 10:00-18:00 Sun:Closed.
March 30: 13:00-18:00 April 11: 10:00-16:00
Organizer: Yoshiko Otsuka Fine Art International, Tokyo.
Artist will be at Ozu Gallery every afternoon.
We hope many visitors will enjoy HIROYUKI DOI’s mesmerizing circle drawings.

In our workshop, participants see HIROYUKI DOI’s artworks, express their impressions of DOI's art, ask him questions, then observe how DOI creates small circles on washi and create their own artworks using the same pen and washi DOI uses.
Finally, participants share each other’s artworks and express their own art making processes freely.

A short film, “HIROYUKI DOI: The World of Circles” shows how DOI creates his artworks and also his recent artworks. https://youtu.be/yfbXr8dGgIU

Yoshiko Otsuka is happy to serve as a facilitator for the workshop.
We look forward to seeing you.

HIROYUKI DOI, Artist
Yoshiko Otsuka, Facilitator for the workshop

Supported by Chuo City in Tokyo, Chuo Cultural and International Exchange Association, OZU WASHI and PILOT CORPORATION.

◉Free of charge.
◉COVID-19 is still here so please wear a mask in the workshop.
Thank you very much.

◎Pre-registration Required.

Dates:

Saturday, November 8, 2025 (15:30 - 17:00)

Participants:

Elementary school 1st grade children to Adults (Japanese or English speaking people ) up to 11 persons.

Place

OZU WASHI 3-6-2 Nihonbashi Honcho, Chuo-Ku, Tokyo

Map

Nearby Stations

7-minute walk from Mitsukoshimae Station on Subway Ginza Line and Subway Hanzomon Line. Exit A5.
2-minute walk from Shin-Nihonbashi Station on JR Sobu Express Line. Exit 5.
5-minute walk from Kodenmacho Station on Subway Hibiya Line. Exit 3.

How to apply

After Sunday, September 21, 2025 11:00 a.m., please email us at Yoshiko Otsuka Fine Art International (E-mail: yoshikootsukajapan@gmail.com Attn.: Otsuka )

Please note participantʼs name, age (grade), address, telephone number, email address. The first 11 persons can join our workshop.

Contact

Yoshiko Otsuka Fine Art International
E-Mail: yoshikootsukajapan@gmail.com
Attn.: Otsuka
[Instagram] https://www.instagram.com/yoshikootsukafineart/