biography of Noritoshi HIRAKAWA (1960)

Personal data


Birth : 1960 - Fukuoka, Japan
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : Japan - United States

Address

New York NY New York, United States

Work


Categorie and medium


Photography :
Audiovisual-Multimedia : Sound installation - Video

Subject

eroticism
women
female nude

Works

A Coherence of Instinct
Date of creation : 1999
Edition n° : 4
Medium : Bromoil gelatin silver print
Size : 130 x 155 cm
 
Witness of Uncertainty
Date of creation : 1999
Edition n° : 8
Medium : Photograph
Size : 80 x 55 cm
 
Spring of a Mum
Date of creation : 1998
Edition n° : 10
Medium : Cibachrome print
Size : 99 x 99 cm
 
A temtation to be a man
Date of creation : 1993
Medium : Installation
Technical data : slides, projector, screen (250x250 cm), spot, textual mural
 

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)


Solo exhibitions

2009

Seeking a Light
Galerie Art In Situ – Paris, France
01/06/2009 – 01/31/2009

1998

The Reason of Life
Deitch Projects – New York NY, United States
1998

The Flame of Wandering
Wako Works of Art – Tokyo, Japan
1998

Forty Years Behind Paris
Taka Ishii Gallery – Santa Monica CA, United States
1998

Galleria Massimo De Carlo – Milan MI, Italy
1998

1997

La Vertu dans le Vice
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin – Paris, France
1997

S Project
CAN Centre d’art de Neuchâtel – Neuchâtel NE, Switzerland
1997

Garden of Nirvana
Deitch Projects – New York NY, United States
1997

Reconfirmation
Gabriele Rivet – Cologne, Germany
1997

1996

Frostbite / Women, Children and Japanese
Wako Works of Art – Tokyo, Japan
1996

Complexe of Pieter Bruegel
Zeno X Gallery – Antwerp, Belgium
1996

1995

L’autre permanent
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin – Paris, France
1995

A Destination of Ego
Galerie Ferdinand Van Dieten-D’Eendt – Amsterdam, Netherlands
1995

Why do the Japanese dislike the Japanese ?
Galerie Ham – Nagoya, Japan
1995

Khaosan road
Rum – Malmo, Sweden
1995

1994

Women, Children and the Japanese
Wako Works of Art – Tokyo, Japan
1994

1992

Je veux être amoureux de vous !
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin – Paris, France
1992

Group Exhibitions (Selected)


Art shows / fairs

2007

FIAC Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais – Paris, France
10/18/2007 – 10/22/2007
Represented by : in Situ – 10 rue Duchefdelaville – Paris, France

2006

Frieze Art Fair
Regent’s Park – London, United Kingdom
10/12/2006 – 10/15/2006
Represented by : The Wrong Gallery – Tate Modern, Level Three – London, United Kingdom

2004

Art 35 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/16/2004 – 06/21/2004
Represented by : Zeno X Gallery – Leopold de Waelpein 16 – Antwerp, Belgium

2003

Art 34 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/18/2003 – 06/23/2003
Represented by : Zeno X Gallery – Leopold de Waelpein 16 – Antwerp, Belgium

ArtBrussels – 21st Contemporary Art Fair
Brussels Expo – Brussels, Belgium
04/04/2003 – 04/08/2003
Represented by : Galerie Gabriele Rivet – Jülicher Str.27 – Cologne, Germany

The Armory Show 2003
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
03/07/2003 – 03/10/2003
Represented by : Florence Lynch Gallery – East of 7th Avenue 147 West 29th Street, 3rd Floor – New York NY, United States

2002

Art 33 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/12/2002 – 06/17/2002
Represented by : Galerie Art & Public – 35 rue des Bains – Geneva GE, Switzerland

The Armory Show 2002
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
02/22/2002 – 02/25/2002
Represented by : Galerie Art & Public – 35 rue des Bains – Geneva GE, Switzerland

2001

Art Basel Miami Beach: cancelled
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/13/2001 – 12/16/2001
Represented by : Spencer Brownstone Gallery – 39 Wooster Street – New York NY, United States

FIAC, n°28
Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles – Paris, France
10/10/2001 – 10/15/2001
Represented by : Spencer Brownstone Gallery – 39 Wooster Street – New York NY, United States

Art Forum Berlin, n° 6
Messegelände Berlin / Exhibition Grounds Berlin – Berlin, Germany
10/03/2001 – 10/07/2001
Represented by : Galerie Serge Ziegler – Limattstrasse 275 – Zürich ZH, Switzerland

Art 32 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/13/2001 – 06/18/2001
Represented by : Zeno X Gallery – Leopold de Waelpein 16 – Antwerp, Belgium

The Armory Show 2001
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
02/23/2001 – 02/26/2001
Represented by : Spencer Brownstone Gallery – 39 Wooster Street – New York NY, United States

Art Miami, n° 11
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
01/18/2001 – 01/22/2001
Represented by : Florence Lynch Gallery – East of 7th Avenue 147 West 29th Street, 3rd Floor – New York NY, United States

2000

Kunst 2000 Zürich, n° 7
Zürich ZH, Switzerland
11/24/2000 – 11/27/2000
Represented by : Galerie Serge Ziegler – Limattstrasse 275 – Zürich ZH, Switzerland

Art Frankfurt – Die europäische Messe für junge Kunst, n° 12
Frankfurt, Germany
03/24/2000 – 03/27/2000
Represented by : Florence Lynch Gallery – East of 7th Avenue 147 West 29th Street, 3rd Floor – New York NY, United States

Sthml Art Fair, n°20
Sollentuna, Sweden
03/09/2000 – 03/12/2000
Represented by : Florence Lynch Gallery – East of 7th Avenue 147 West 29th Street, 3rd Floor – New York NY, United States

photo L.A. 2000 – 9th Los Angeles Photographic Print Exposition
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium – Santa Monica CA, United States
01/20/2000 – 01/23/2000
Represented by : Taka Ishii Gallery – 3-27-6 Kita Outsuka – Tokyo, Japan

1999

Art Cologne, n° 33
Cologne, Germany
11/07/1999 – 11/14/1999
Represented by : Galerie Gabriele Rivet – Jülicher Str.27 – Cologne, Germany


Festivals

1998

La Sphère de l’Intime – Le Printemps de Cahors
Cahors, France
1998


Group exhibitions

2006

The Garden Party
Deitch Projects – New York NY, United States
03/09/2006 – 04/29/2006

2002

The Overexcited Body
Queens Museum of Art – New York NY, United States
07/2002 – 09/2002

Alfredo Jaar / Noritoshi Hirakawa
Torch Gallery – Amsterdam, Netherlands
2002

2001

The Overexcited Body
SESC Pompéia – São Paulo, Brazil
10/16/2001 – 12/02/2001

The Overexcited Body
Velodromo Vigorelli / Palazzo dell’Arengario – Milan MI, Italy
2001

Dévoler – Vivent les FRAC (suite)
IAC Institut d’art contemporain – Villeurbanne, France
06/22/2001 – 11/18/2001

The Overexcited Body
ONUG Office des Nations Unies à Genève / UNOG United Nations Office at Geneva – Geneva GE, Switzerland
03/21/2001

1999

Spaceship Earth
Art in General – New York NY, United States
1999

1998

Where I am
Galerie Municipal Da Mitra – Lisbon, Portugal
1998

Fétiches/Fétichismes
Passage de Retz – Paris, France
1998

Exterminating Angel
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot – Paris, France
1998

1997

AJAR
Galleri F15 – Moss, Norway
1997

Noritoshi Hirakawa & Philip Reilly
Galerie Ferdinand Van Dieten-D’Eendt – Amsterdam, Netherlands
1997

Absolute Landscape – Between Illusion and Reality
Yokohama Museum of Art – Yokohama, Japan
1997

1996

Non ! Pas comme ça !
CAN Centre d’art de Neuchâtel – Neuchâtel NE, Switzerland
1996

Joint Ventures
Basilico Fine Arts – New York NY, United States
1996

Urgence
CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux – Bordeaux, France
1996

Playpen & Corpus Delirium
Kunsthalle Zürich – Zürich ZH, Switzerland
1996

Nudo & Crudo, La sessualità e il corpo nell’arte contemporanea
Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea – Milan MI, Italy
1996

Passions privées
ARC Animation, recherche, confrontation – Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris – Paris, France
1996

Bibliography (Selected)


On the artist


Books

2000

Fresh Cream
Publisher: Phaidon Press – Regent’s Wharf – London, United Kingdom
11/2000
ISBN : 0714891142

Legals