Hisham Akira Bharoocha

Animation, Illustration, Collage, Installation

Purple Brand

A collection of graphics built from handcrafted textures and cultural references, developed in close collaboration with Purple Brand.

Mortlach

A personal meditation on cultural intersection—a large-scale work created for Mortlach's celebration of Japanese and Scottish craft.

Adidas

An Adidas sneaker drop given a complete visual identity—original animal-pattern artwork extended into a moving image campaign.

Kesho

A collaborative Tokyo exhibition merging collage, Kabuki photography, and looping animation into a single cohesive world.

Love Injection

Visual identity for a Love Injection release, built from science fiction references and extended into motion across digital platforms.

JCRT

Collage artwork engineered for the body—key elements placed to land precisely on collar, cuff, and cut for JCRT.

Uniqlo

A participatory mural created at a Roger Federer x Uniqlo event and auctioned in support of Brooklyn youth.

Hisham Akira Bharoocha is mixed race (Japanese / Indian Myanmar) multidisciplinary creative based in Brooklyn. His work spans various mediums including collages, large-scale murals, paintings, drawings, audio/visual installations, and performances.

Raised in southern California and Tokyo, Japan, Bharoocha brings his multicultural background into his highly vibrant work, focusing on his fascination with hyper specific associations humans have to colors, shapes, imagery that triggers memories, and how those impressions affect our outlook on the world at large or expressly an art experience.

Hisham has had solo exhibitions around the world, including in Japan, New York, and The Netherlands. He has also concepted and designed workshops and events for Uniqlo, Instagram, and Sephora. Bharoocha is known for organizing large-scale musical performances with up to 100 musicians performing at once, often focused around drumming, but including other instrumentation as well.

His performances have graced prestigious venues worldwide such as Rockefeller Center Plaza, MoMA, MoMA PS1, MoCA, The Sydney Opera House (Australia) and Barbican (London) to name a few. Hisham has collaborated with brands including Apple, Puma, Saint Heron, Sephora, Ogilvy, Adidas, Nylon Magazine, Sony, Latest Revival, Imprint Projects, Zeit Magazin, Nowness, Creatures of the Wind, Spotify, Mortlach, Vice, and Facebook.

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