Hiraku Suzuki (b. 1978 in Miyagi, Japan) currently lives and works in Tokyo. Suzuki considers “drawing” to be something that exists between images and language, and explores the new potential that this definition implies through an artistic practice that encompasses two-dimensional works, sculptures, installations, murals, videos, and performances that often utilize light-reflective media. This intermedia approach is informed by excavating fragments of glyphs and signs from our ever-changing environment, and rearranging them to generate tube-like circuitry in space and time—a method he describes as “alternative archaeology”. By archiving and reworking various forms and lines emerging from cave murals, music notations, urban traffic, plants, minerals, and cosmic phenomena, Suzuki attempts to reinterpret “drawing” from a cosmic perspective and expand its conceptual boundaries.

Suzuki’s major solo exhibitions include "Excavation Today" at The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma (2023). He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions in Japan and abroad, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2019, 2022, 2024), MO.CO. Panacée, France (2019), the Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, China (2016), the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2009, 2012, 2018, 2025), and the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2010). His works are held in collections including the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, agnès b. collection (France), and University of the Arts London (UK).

Since 2016, he has served as the head organizer for the international drawing research platform Drawing Tube. He has also collaborated with artists from other fields, such as musicians and poets, and has created numerous public artworks. His publications include SILVER MARKER—Drawing as Excavating (HeHe, 2020) and Drawing—Point, Line and Plane to Tube (Sayusha, 2023).

Suzuki received his MFA from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2008. In 2011, he completed a residency at Chelsea College of Arts in London. From 2011 to 2012, he lived and worked in the United States with support from the Asian Cultural Council, and from 2012 to 2013 in Germany with a grant from the Pola Art Foundation. In 2023, he was awarded the Japanese Government Overseas Research Program Grant from the Agency for Cultural Affairs and undertook research in France. He received the Grand Prize of the FID Prize International Drawing Contest in 2017 and the 35th Takashimaya Art Award in 2025.