SAWA HIRAKI 澤 拓
Born 1977 in Ishikawa, Japan
Lives and works in London EDUCATION 2003 M.F.A. Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London, UK 2000 B.F.A. (Honors), Sculpture Course, University of East London, London, UK 1997 University of East London, Fine Art Foundation Course, London, UK SOLO EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS 2016 Parafin, London, UK 2015 James Cohan Gallery Shanghai, Shanghai, China Terrain, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan Hiraki Sawa: Lineament, Fig 2, ICA, London, UK 2014 Hiraki Sawa: Under the Box, Beyond the Bounds, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada Hiraki Sawa, Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2013 Hiraki Sawa: Lenticular, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK Hiraki Sawa: Figment, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY Airliner, Mori Art Museum, MAM SCREEN, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan 2012 Whirl, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Yokohama, Japan dwelling, Kanazawa Art Gummi, Kanazawa, Japan Postscript, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan Hiraki Sawa – Lineament, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Hiraki Sawa: Videos, Museum Goch, Goch, Germany Hiraki Sawa – Dwelling, Kunsthaus Essen, Essen, Germany 2011 Other Dwellings, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Elsewhere, Rockland Center for Arts, West Nyack, NY O, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY 2010 Carrousel, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie et Musée du Temps de Besançon, Besançon, France Animated Screen, Husets Biograf, Copenhagen, Denmark Hiraki Sawa, Void, Derry, N. Ireland, UK 2009 Hiraki Sawa, IUFM, Dijon, France Hiraki Sawa, Galeria Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, Spain Hiraki Sawa, Yu-un, Tokyo, Japan Hiraki Sawa, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan 2008 Hiraki Sawa, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME 2008 |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 RIVERRUN dis/continuous writing on history, memory and spirit, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 2016 Escape Routes, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI Gravity (and Wonder), Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, New South Wales, Australia Hitherland, ROOMING Room, London, United Kingdom 2014 Landscape: the virtual, the actual, the possible? Kadist Art Foundation, October 2014 - January 2015 Variations of the Moon, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin-si Gyeonggi-do, South Korea Rewritten by Machine and New Technology: Video Art, 1969-2013, University Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 2013 Mono no avare: Contemporary Japanese Artists, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Beyond the Surface, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore, Singapore Standing in the Shadow, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan Re: Quest –Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s, Museum of Art Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Spaces for Drawing, HITE Collection, Seoul, Korea Welcome to the Small World, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan What We See, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan True Illusion, Illusory Truth – Contemporary Art Beyond Ordinary Experience, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 2012 PARADE: Invisibles in Japanese Media Arts, ArtisTree, Hong Kong, China Encounter: The Royal Academy in Asia, touring exhibition – LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore; Middle East Katara Cultural Village, Doha, Qatar Olympic Games Media Art: Blue Crystal Ball, touring exhibition – Spencer House, London, UK; De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill On Sea, UK; AND Festival, Manchester, UK Very Fun Park, Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan Flight and the Artistic Imagination, Compton Verney Gallery, Warwickshire, UK HONORS AND AWARDS 2010 Gotoh Award, Tokyo, Japan 2006 Decibel Award for Artists, London, UK 2002 EAST Award for “dwelling” and “monumental vision” EAST International, Norwich, UK; Norwich Gallery Selectors: Lawrence Weiner and Jack Wender |
SELECTED WORKS
EXHIBITIONS
- 2015/04/11~2015/05/16 TERRAIN - Hiraki Sawa Solo Exhibition