Noritoshi Hirakawa

Noritoshi Hirakawa
平川典俊
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Noritoshi Hirakawa was born in 1960 in Fukuoka, Japan. Residing in New York City since 1993. Hirakawa is now an internationally known contemporary artist after studying Applied Sociology. He has created numerous works in photography, film, dance, installation and performance.

His work has been exhibited over 300 times at museums, art centers, and galleries all over the world including Venice Biennale Aperto, Istanbul Biennale, Site Santa Fe Biennale and Museum fur Modern Kunst, Frankfurt, Center Pompidou, Paris, PS 1 Museum, New York, Leeum, Seoul, Hermes Forum, Tokyo.

His works are held in numerous museum and public collections including M+ Museum in Hong Kong, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in Japan, Museum fur Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main in Frankfurt, capcMusée d’art contemporain in Bordeaux. He has worked on several collaborations with artists in other fields, such as poets, musicians, choreographers and architects as well as presented at Das TAT, Frankfurt, Danse Montpellier and Fondation Cartier, Paris and University of Toronto.

Hirakawa believes human activity forms the culture in which we live. His creation proposes to extend the capacity of human perception for furthering this culture. Within this framework, Hirakawa is pushing the boundaries of perception, altering aesthetic views for the future.

biography
略歴

Noritoshi Hirakawa was born in 1960 in Fukuoka, Japan.
In his early childhood, there were two goats dwelling in his home.

Selected solo shows;
2017: Fondazione Zimei, Pescara
2015: Gallery HAM, Nagoya
2014: Gallery 55, Shanghai, Chi-Wen Galllery, Taipei
2013: Gallery VER, Bangkok, Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto
2012: Christophe Guye Gallery, Zurich
Casa Barragan, Mexico City
Gunma Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
Tilton Gallery, New York
Galerie In Situ, Paris
2011: Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
Gallery HAM, Nagoya
Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi
2010: Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
2009: Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei
　　　Gallery HAM, Nagoya
In Situ / Fabienne Leclerc, Paris
2008: Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo
2006: Baukunst Galerie, Cologne
Gallery HAM, Nagoya
Ferdinand van Dieten, Amsterdam
Mars Gallery, Tokyo
2005: Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
In Situ, Paris
Salon 94, New York
2004: Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
The Eric Arthur Gallery
　　　University of Toronto, Toronto
Wrong Gallery, London (Frieze Art Fair)
2003: BMW Group Pavilion, Munich
2002: Noirmont Prospect, Paris
Hermes Forum, Tokyo
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
Art & Public, Geneva
2001: Magazin 4, Bregenz
2000: Art & Public, Geneva
1999: Kunsthalle St.Gallen, St.Gallen
1998: Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano
Deitch Projects, New York
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
Taka Ishii Gallery, Santa Monica
1997: Deitch Projects, New York
Gabriele Rivet, Cologne
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Centre d’art Neuchatel, Neuchatel
1996: Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
1995: Gallery HAM, Nagoya
Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
1994: American Fine Arts, Co., New York
Art & Public, Geneva
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
1993: Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt..

Selected group shows;
2019: “Noritoshi Hirakawa, Miriam Cahn / Landscapes”, Wako Works of Arts, Tokyo
2017: “AQUA”, Chateau de Penthes, Pregny-Chambesy
2016: “Desire”, Moore Building,Miami
“Shikijo: eroticism in Japanese photography” Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
2015: “Sinnliche Ungewssheit”, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich
2014: “JAPON”, Centre d’art contemporain Meymac, Meymac
“Le Mouvement - Biel/Biene 2014” Biel,
2013: “Coeurs Vaillants”, Eva Hober Gallery, Paris,
“Artist for Tichy - Tichy for Artist”, GASK museum, Kutná Hora
“Happy Birthday Galerie Perrotin”, Tripostal, Lille
“93”, Centro Gaiego de Arte Contemporánea, A Coruña
2012: “Question d’images”, Carre d’Art - Musee d’Art Contemporain, Nimes,
“MIE: A Portrait by 35 Artists”, Freight + Volume, New "Nocturnal Dream",
The Last Gallery, Tokyo
“En Plein Air”, Stux Gallery, New York
2010: "The Lucid Evidence", Museum fur Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt
“CAPC ou la vie saisie par l’art”, CAPC – Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux
“Inside nstallations”, SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
2009: “Walk on the Light Side”, Eggn’s Spoon, Zurich
“Flowers”, Galerie Walter Keller, Zurich
2008: “Darkside”, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
“Silence in the Light”, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Tokyo
“Diana und Actaeon”, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
“An Attribute of Living”, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
2007: “Mulher, Mulheres”, SESC, Sao Paulo,
“Lost#Format”, Be Part, Waregem,““FLASH CUBE”, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
“Vanihsing Point”, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
2006: “Into Me / Out of Me“, P.S.1 Museum, New York
"Sweet Ecstasy”, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich
“The Garden Party”, Deitch Projects, New York
“Don Giovanni”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
“Dark Places”, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica
2005: ”Femme(s)”, Museum Carouge, Geneva
“Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal”, Montéal
“Tirana Biennale 3”, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana
“Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht”, Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe
2004: “Mixed Farming”, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
2003: Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
“The History of Japanese Photography” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
“False Innocence”, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona
“Das Lebendige Museum”, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
2002: “Departures” Torch, Amsterdam
2001: The Beauty of Intimacy”, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
“Casino 2001” S.M.A.K., Ghent
2000: “Cold Burn”, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
“Contemporary Photography from Japan”, De Pont Foundation, Tilburg
“Autowerke”, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
1999: “Transmute”, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
“Missing Link”, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
1998: “Terminating Angel”, Galerie Ghislane Hussenot, Paris
“La Sphere de l’Intime”, Le Printemps de Cahors, Cahors
“Crossings”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
“Live and Let Die”, Apex Art C.P., New York
“Bangkok Art Project 1998”, Bangkok
1997: “Absolute Landscape”, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
“Lust und Leere,” Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
“Truce”, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, Biennale de Cetinie, Montenegro
“Heaven-Public View”, P.S.1 Museum, New York
1996: “Traffic,” CAPC, Bordeaux,
“Nudo & Crudo,” Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milano
“Phase 2,” Das TAT, Frankfurt
“Shopping,” Yohji Yamamoto, New York
“Playpen & Corpus Delirium”, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich
“a/drift”, Museum at Bard College, New York State
1995: “Shift,” De Appel, Amsterdam
“On Board” (Aperto ‘95), Venice
“Campo,” Corderie dell’Arsenale, Venice
“Ripple Across the Water,” Watarium, Tokyo
“Infra Sound,” Hamburg, “Feminin, Masculin,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
“Orient / Ation,” The 4 th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
1994: “Of the Human Condition,” Spiral, Tokyo
“A Vision of Japan for 21st Century”, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo
1993: “Prospect 93,” Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
“Viennese Story,” Wiener Secession, Vienna...

Public Collections;
M+ Museum, Hong Kong
Museum fur Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt
capcMusée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
Foundazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L’Art, Torino
Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent
FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Nantes,
FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Fonds minicipal d’art contemporain, Geneva
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Hauser & Wirth Museum, St. Gallen
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
MOCA, Los Angeles
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
NOMAS Foundation, Roma...

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