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Hiraki Sawa
1977 Born in Ishikawa, Japan,
1997-2000 BA (hons) Fine Art, University of East London
2001-2003 MFA Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
lives and works in London
Selected solo exhibitions/screenings
- 2012
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“Hiraki sawa -Whirl”, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
“dwelling”, Kanazawa Artgummi, Kanazawa, Japan
“Postscript”, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
“Lineament”, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
video installation, 18'47"
music: Dale Berning
- 2011
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“Hiraki Sawa – Things Going Around”, Galeria Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, Spain
“Hiraki Sawa – did i?”, artclub 1563, Seoul, South Korea
“Hiraki Sawa – Other Dwellings”, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, Michigan, US
“Hiraki Sawa – O”, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US
- 2010
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“Hiraki Sawa – Carrousel”, Musée du Temps and Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’archéologie, Besançon, France
- 2009
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“Hiraki Sawa”, Yu-un, Tokyo, Japan
“Hiraki Sawa”, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
- 2008
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“Hiraki Sawa”, Faux Mouvement Centre d’art Contemporain, Metz, France
“Hiraki Sawa”, Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain
- 2007
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“Hiraki Sawa – Hako”, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
“Hiraki Sawa, Going Places Sitting Down”, Frist Centre for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, US
- 2006
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“Hiraki Sawa”, Sussel Gallery, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, US
“Hiraki Sawa – Six Good Reasons to Stay at Home”, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
“Hiraki Sawa”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
“Hiraki Sawa”, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US
“Hiraki Sawa”, Certain Places, firstsite, Colchester, UK
- 2005
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“Hiraki Sawa”, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., US
“Hiraki Sawa”, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
“Criterium 63 – Room”, Art Tower Mito, Japan
“Hammer Projects – Hiraki Sawa”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
- 2004
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“Going Places Sitting Down”, Hayward Gallery/Bloomberg Artist Commission for Waterloo Sunset, the Dan Graham Pavilion, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
“Hiraki Sawa”, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US
- 2003
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“Dwelling”, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK
“Hiraki Sawa”, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
“Hiraki Sawa”, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
single-channel video, black and white, stereo sound, 9'20"
Selected group exhibitions / screenings
- 2012
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“Art as Masic: Visionary Artists and Their Inner Supernatural World”, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art / Aichi Arts Centre, Nagoya, Japan
“The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream”, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Co. Meath, Ireland
- 2011
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“Melancholia”, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
“Pure Views”, Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
“Dark Matters”, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
“BYE BYE KITTY!!!”, Japan Society, New York, US
- 2010
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“Villa Aesthetics”, Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
“The Dissolve”, SITE Santa Fe 8th International Biennial, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, US
“The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age”, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
“Reflection: Alternative Worlds Through the Video Camera”, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
- 2009
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“The 6th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art”, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
“Voyage – Journey of Six Artists”, Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris, Paris, France (2009); Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan (2009); Galeria Municipal de Leiria, Leiria, Portugal (2010); Museo Modelo de Ciencias e Intustria, Toluca, Mexico (2010); Museo Archivo De La Fotografia, Mexico City, Mexico(2010); Instituto de Artes Plasticas Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico (2011)
“Automatic Cities: The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art”, The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, US
“Big in Japan: The Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition”, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
“Parades and Processions: Here Comes Everybody”, Parasol Unit, London, UK
“Incidental Affairs: Contemporary Art of Transient States”, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan
“Mind As Passion”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
- 2008
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“Promenades Insomniaques”, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
“Cinema Indeed, Narratives and Projections”, Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paolo, Brazil
“Sea Art Festival”, Busan Biennale 2008, Busan Museum of Art and other locations, South Korea
“In Between – Asian Art Video Weekend”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“Time Scape”, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art / Aichi Arts Centre, Nagoya, Japan
“Neoteny Japan. Contemporary Artists After 1990’s – From Takahashi Collection”, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima (2008); Sapporo Art Sculpture Garden, Museum of contemporary art, Sapporo(2008); The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo (2009); The Niigata Prefectual Museum of Modern Art, Nagaoka (2009); Akita Museum Of Modern Art, Yokote (2009); Yonago City Museum of Art, Yonago(2009); The Museum of Art, Ehime, Matsuyama (2009)
“The Alliance”, doART, Beijing, China
“Artist File 2008”, National Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan
- 2007
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“Have you eaten yet?”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
“12th Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement”, Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
“Beautiful New World – Contemporary Visual Art from Japan”, 798 Dashanzi Art District, Beijing; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
“La Chaîne – Japan and France Contemporary Art Exhibition”, BankART 1929 Yokohama, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan
“Thermocline of Art – New Asian Waves”, Museum of Contemporary Art, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
- 2006
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“From Encounter to Encounter: Expounding the Playground”, Taipei Children’s Recreation Centre, Taipei, Taiwan
“Fatamorgana”, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
“Enjoyable House”, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art / Aichi Arts Centre, Nagoya, Japan
“Around the World in 80 Days”, South London Gallery, London, UK
“Fast Futures: Asian Video Art, ACAW 2006”, Japan Society, New York, US
“Chaosmos ’05 Unreal Reality”, Sakura City Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan
- 2005
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“Experimenta: Vanishing Point”, Margaret Lawrence Gallery at VCA, Melbourne, Australia
“Art Circus: Jumping from the Ordinary”, Yokohama Triennale 2005, Yamashita Pier, Yokohama, Japan
“Thoughts of a Fish in the Deep Sea”, Valencia Biennial, Convent of the Carmen, Valencia, Spain
“Xanadu Variation”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
- 2004
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“Have We Met?”, Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
“The Encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony – Emerging Resonances”, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan
“Situations Construites, attitudes”, Geneva, Switzerland
“Spin Cycle”, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
“The 59th Minute”, Times Square Astrovision, New York, US
- 2003
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“C’est Arrivé Demain”, 7ième Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
single-channel video, black and white, silent, 7'40"
Public Collections
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Leon, Spain
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Arts Council Collection, London, UK
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, US
The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, US
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, US
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., US
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art / Aichi Arts Centre, Nagoya, Japan
UBS Art Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Norton Family Collection, US
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia