1959年生于日本青森县。1981年毕业于武藏野美术大学造型系建筑科。在从事建筑工作三年后，转而专业从事艺术创作。晋身画家初期，虽然日本的艺术市场仍均偏重“超扁平”及日本动漫风格，但七户优依然故我，集中钻研现实主义画风，并逐渐蜕变成为超现实主义。在七户优的世界里气压趋近于零。他画面里的少男少女、玻璃眼兔子、机械摆设、天体、飞艇以及永远停留在12点的时钟无不渗透着触之可及的沉默。连撞球的运动轨迹都被表现为停留在不同时间点的半空，令人联想意大利未来主义艺术家的多重曝光摄影实验，它们在七户优创造的静谧空间中掀起波澜。
Born in 1959 in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from Musashino Art University, College of Art and Design, major in architecture. After working in architectural firm for three years, he started his career as professional painter. The atmospheric pressure on Masaru Shichinohe’s planet also approaches zero. Apalpable stillness pervades his tableaus of young boys and girls, glassy-eyed rabbits, mechanical baubles, celestial bodies, led zeppelinds, and clocks eternally set at 12 o’clock. Even demonstrations of movement like the trajectory of a billiard ball are stopped in mid-air at different points in t, recalling the Italian Futurists’ experimentations with multiple exposure photography. They are stutters in Shichinohe’s otherwitse frictionless space.
