Takashi Harada is a Japanese Painting (Nihonga) artist and lives and works in Manhattan, NY. He was born in a small porcelain-making town, Arita, Saga, in Japan. 

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After completing the PhD program of the Graduate School of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and in 1998, he moved out from Japan. Since then he had stayed in Germany, France, and Canada, before arriving in U.S in 2001. He was granted a fellowship “Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists” from the Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunkacho) of Japanese Government in 2005. Staying outside of Japan made him to face the identity of himself being Japanese, at the same time it gave him opportunities to contemplate about the connection between human beings and other natural matters while collecting the images of nature in other countries. 

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Harada believes that all natural things, including human beings, have a sort of common structure, and that each of them exist having the equal value of a molecule or an atom. He also believes that when humans place their bodies in nature, the information recorded in those bodies since conception dissolves into the natural world, that their common genetic structure reconnects them to the rest of nature, one small atom at a time. He wishes to create artworks that can evoke such a feeling. 

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His artworks have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions over 30 years in Japan and US including his solo exhibition at Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in 2018 and Sato Sakura Gallery New York in 2020, both in Manhattan NY.