COVID-19
2020
Material : cotton, sewing thread
Dimension : ca.h.300×w.50×d.50cm
87
memento mori -grandmother-
2020
Material : underwear, accessories
Dimension : ca.h.200×w.35×d.35cm
84
ART SETOUCHI, Shodoshima
Quartz by the sea
2019
Material : unoccupied house, things left in the unoccupied house (Ikeda elementary school uniform, clock, sewing machine, futon dryer, record, etc.), record player, control panel, swallow
Dimensions variable
Exhibition : "Memory and History"
@POLA MUSEUM OF ART
22 July - 24 September 2018
Photo by Ken KATO
untitled -rain DDR-
2014
Material : umbrella
Dimensions variable
untitled -rain Nagasaki-
2018
Material : umbrella
Dimensions variable
untitled -rain Hiroshima-
2018
Material : umbrella
Dimensions variable
machine
2018
Material : industrial sewing machine, sewing thread spool, electric cylinder, control panel
Dimensions variable
78
rope #2
2018
Material : koinobori
Private collection
77
rope #1
2018
Material : koinobori
Private collection
76
Group Exhibition : “BINDING THREADS / EXPANDING THREADS”
@Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
untitled -ubugi-
2017
Material : kimono
Dimensions variable
68
untitled -koinobori-
2017
Material : koinobori
Dimension : ca. h.500 × w.300 × d.490 cm
Installation view : Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Collection : Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
69
untitled -koinobori red-
2017
Material : koinobori
Dimension : ca. h.280 × w.360 × d.370 cm
Installation view : Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
65
web #8
2016
Material : girdle
61_63
Group Exhibition : "Wardrobe Memories"
@Arts Maebashi, Gunma
10 October 2014 - 13 January 2015
Photo by Shinya KIGURE
untitled -70's women-
2014
Material : dress
Dimensions variable
Photo by Shinya KIGURE
untitled -rain DDR-
2014
Material : umbrella (made in Deutsche Demokratische Republik)
Dimensions variable
Photo by Shinya KIGURE
untitled -lady-
2014
Material : dress
Dimensions variable
Photo by Shinya KIGURE
58
untitled -a woman in black-
2012
Material : dress
Dimensions variable
Installation view : Familienchroniken, TextilWerk Bocholt, 2014
untitled -Berliner Family-
2011
Material : negligee(grandmother), shirt(father), polo shirt, miniskirt(daughter)
Dimensions variable
Installation view : Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 2012
Photo by Keizo Kioku
untitled -skirt-
2006
Material : skirt
Dimensions variable
photo by Nozomi Tomoeda
Installation view : L'Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo, 2006
12
untitled -stockings-
2006
Material : stockings
Dimension : h.150 x w.110cm
photo by Nozomi Tomoeda
Installation view : L'Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo, 2006
11
untitled
2005
Material : black shirt, time clock, time card
Dimensions variable
1975 Born in Nagasaki
2003 Ph.D., Hiroshima City University
2006 Art Documents Support Program by SHISEIDO
2007 shiseido art egg Award, Japan
2008 Fellowship, Asian Cultural Council (Japan - United States Arts Program at ISCP, N.Y., USA)
2009 Fellowship, Agency for Cultural Affairs Japan (Berlin, Germany)
2010 Fellowship, POLA ART FOUNDATION(Berlin, Germany)
2025 Grants, The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation 2025 Individual Support Grant
Solo Exhibitions
1998 STUDIO SAKO, Hiroshima
2002 GalleryQ, Tokyo
2003 Museum of Art, Hiroshima City University
2004 GalleryK, Tokyo
2005 GalleryK, Tokyo
2006 “arrangement”, L'Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo
2007 “aerosol”, SHISEIDO GALLERY, Tokyo
2007 SCAI X SCAI, Tokyo
2009 KUMUKUMU, New York
2012 “Re-Dress”, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
2017 “KOINOBORI -a retrospective aerial fish-” mm project, Hiroshima
2018 “Memory and History” POLA MUSEUM OF ART, Kanagawa
2018 SCAI PARK, Tokyo
2021 mm project, Hiroshima
2022 “Umbrella” Yebiden Gallery, Hiroshima
2024 “Contact #4 Spinning Spider” M’s Gallery, Hiroshima
2024 “Flag” mm project, Hiroshima
2025 “bunbuku chagama: a form of memento” TeoriyaL.D., Hiroshima
2025 “Covering Emptiness” EUREKA, Fukuoka
Group Exhibitions
2001 “Art Crossing Hiroshima Project 2001 spring”, Hiroshima
2002 “Four Exhibition”, Daiwa Radiator Factory, Hiroshima
2005 “New Art Competition”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
2005 “GIFT OF HIROSHIMA”, Braunschweig University of Art, Germany
2006 “New Art Exhibition 2006”, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa
2007 “HIROSHIMA ART PROJECT”, Hiroshima
2007 “NAKANOJO BIENNALE”, Gunma
2008 “Voyage a NUNO”, Takamatsu Historical Museum, Kagawa
2008 “OFF SITE 2007 hirano kaoru/sullen”, YOKOHAMA MUSEUM OF ART, Kanagawa
2008 “The House”, Nippon-Homes Model House in Nishi-Azabu, Tokyo
2008 “KOGANECHO BAZAAR”, Kogane-cho, Kanagawa
2008 “OPEN STUDIO”, ISCP, New York
2008 KUMUKUMU, New York
2009 “imMATERIAL WINTER GROUP SHOW”, BLACK AND WHITE GALLERY, New York
2009 “ECHIGO TSUMARI Art Triennial”, Fukutake House, Niigata
2009 “HIROSHIMA ART PROJECT -Kippo Maru: Exploring inside the Ship!-”, Hiroshima
2010 “almost the same, but not quite”, Berlin
2010 “Universität der Künste Berlin Rundgaung 2010”, Berlin
2010 “WE ARE THE ISLANDS”, Bethanien Kreuzberg, Berlin
2011 “Durchgang”, Wostel, Berlin
2011 “MAGICAL WORKS”, Nakanojo Biennale, Gunma
2011 “Vision & Fashion”, Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
2012 “blooming in the dark”, historischer Keller, Berlin
2012 “Takamatsu Contemporary Art Annual vol.02”, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa
2012 “A BURNT-OUT CASE?”, NGBK, Berlin
2013 “DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow 2013”, The National Art Center, Tokyo
2013 “More or Less”, WCW Gallery, Humburg
2013 “TAKAHASHI COLLECTION Mindfulness!”, KIRISHIMA OPEN-AIR MUSEUM
2013 “TAKAHASHI COLLECTION Mindfulness!”, Kagoshima/SAPPORO ART PARK, Hokkaido
2014 “Meet! 2014 Aus der Luft gegriffen”, Städtische Galerie KUBUS, Hannover
2014 “Familienchroniken”, TextilWerk, Bocholt
2014 “Berlin Art Prize”, Kuehlhaus, Berlin
2014 “Wardrobe Memories”, Arts Maebashi, Gunma
2015 “The Exhibition of the Yokohama Museum of Art：Collection 2015 Part 1”,Kanagawa
2015 “STELLAR - WANDERING STARS SUITE”, Nord/LB Art Gallery, Hannover
2016 “Remembering Textiles”, tim | Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum Augsburg
2016 “Phenomenon”, ART GALLERY miyauchi, Hiroshima
2016 “Remembering Textiles”, LWL-Industriemuseum TextilWerk Bocholt
2017 “The Life in Satoyama”, Kake shopping street, Hiroshima
2017 “KUNSTstoff-TextilART”, Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen
2017 “BINDING THREADS / EXPANDING THREADS”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
2019 Arts Maebashi, Gunma
2019 “Setouchi Triennale 2019”, Syodoshima, Kagawa
2019 “Threads of Thoughts”, GALLERY GALLERY, Kyoto
2019 “Carp swim”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
2020 “SCAI 30th Anniversary Exhibition”, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo
2021 “dawn”, TOKYU PLAZA SHIBUYA, Tokyo
2021 “Motoi no Machi”, M98, Hiroshima
2022 “Motoi no Machi”, display, Hiroshima
2022 ”ARTIST TRANSFER in Hiroshima”, ART GALLERY miyauchi, Hiroshima
2023 “Collection Exhibition 2023-Ⅰ” Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
2023 10 Years Anniversary Collection +, Arts Maebashi, Gunma
2024 “interference” Motomachi Apartments, Hiroshima
Collection
TAKAHASHI COLLECTION, Arts Maebashi, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Workshop
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima City University
Catalogue
Art Crossing Hiroshima project 2001” “HIROSHIMA - CITY ART WORKS 2003” “New Art Competition at Hiroshima City Museum of Art” “HIRANO Kaoru -arrangement-” “New Art Exhibition 2006 - The Form of Thread and Fabric” “shiseido art egg 1” “Voyage à NUNO” “HIROSHIMA ART PROJECT : former naka waste incineration plant art project” “The House -How to live with modern art-” “yokohama art navi” “KOGANECHO BAZZAR GUIDEBOOK + TEXTBOOK” “THE WINDOW OF ARTS June 2009” “BIJUTSU TECHO October 2009” “HIROSHIMA ART PROJECT -Kippo Maru: Exploring inside the Ship!-” “NAKANOJO BIENNALE 2007-2009” “NAKANOJO BIENNALE 2011” “blooming in the dark” “Takamatsu Contemporary Art Annual vol.02” “DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow 2013” “TAKAHASHI COLLECTION Mindfulness!” “kaoru hirano gali cnaani textile erinnerungen remembering textiles” “BINDING THREADS / EXPANDING THREADS”
Bibliography
Writing by the Artist Dissertation: “What conceal one and concealed one”
