SAWA HIRAKI  澤 拓

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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

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