Hiroshi SUGITO

Biography

• 1970: Born in Nagoya, Japan.
• 1992: B.F.A., Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music.
• 1996–1997: Artist-in-Residence, Bemis Foundation, Nebraska, USA.
• 1998: VOCA Prize (Encouragement Prize), The Vision of Contemporary Art (VOCA).
• Currently: Lives and works in Nagoya and Tokyo, Japan.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 1991: Love Collection Gallery, Nagoya
• 1992: Stegosaurus Studio, Nagoya
• 1993: Stegosaurus Studio, Nagoya
• 1996: Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo / Marc Foxx, Santa Monica, California, USA
• 1997: Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA / Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, USA
• 1998: Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo / Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo / Marc Foxx, Santa Monica, California, USA / Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA
• 1999: London Projects, London, UK / Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya / Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil / Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
• 2000: Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy / Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USA
• 2001: Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
• 2002: voyager, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya / Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USA / ranger, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
• 2003: Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA / [West Gallery] Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USA / under the shadow, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
• 2004: the birdsong, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany / Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
• 2005: BRIDGE, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya / Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA / Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USA / 1996-2000, Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland
• 2006: April Song, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Nagaizumi, Shizuoka / Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland / Focus: Hiroshi Sugito, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA
• 2007: A Shortcut to the Sky, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo / under the cloud, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA
• 2008: Triple Mountain, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil / Galleri Sjur Nedreaas, Bergen, Norway / Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya (~2009)
• 2009: Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USA
• 2011: Hiroshi Sugito x Jun Aoki: needle and thread, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo / paintings and sketches, Japan Creative Centre (JCC), Singapore (~2012)
• 2012: the orange tree, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
• 2014: Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USA / pit, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya [Dec 16, 2014 – Feb 7, 2015]
• 2015: 21st Century Art Project – Hiroshi Sugito: frame and refrain, Bernard Buffet Museum, Nagaizumi, Shizuoka / Hiroshi Sugito: prime and foundation, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai [May 2 – Jul 26, 2015]
• 2016: particles and release, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Aichi / crimp and clamp, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
• 2017: Hiroshi Sugito: module or lacuna, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo / dust and margin, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 1994: Sign of a Neighbor, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya [Planned by Nagoya University of Arts, Art Planning Seminar]
• 1995: Two-person Exhibition (Hiroshi Sugito, Shin Morikita), Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
• 1996: Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Nagoya Citizens’ Gallery, Nagoya [Exhibited by Kenji Taki Gallery] / Kind of Blue, Hakudosha, Nagoya
• 1997: Gallery Artists Exhibition, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo / Alive and Well, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, USA / Best of the Season, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA / Untitled Group Show, Marc Foxx, Santa Monica, California, USA
• 1998: VOCA ’98: The Vision of Contemporary Art, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo / Hanging, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo / Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro / Fundação Cultural do Distrito Federal, Brasília, Brazil / Gala Benefit, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA / Audiello Fine Art, New York, USA / Innocent Minds, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya / New Works by 6 Artists, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
• 1999: Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Nagoya Citizens’ Gallery, Nagoya [Exhibited by Kenji Taki Gallery] / MOT Annual 1999: Modest Radicalism, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), Tokyo / Art is Fun 10: Heaven in Hell, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma / Meditation – Midday Meditation: Japanese Art of the 90s, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
• 2000: Kaleidoscope of Time, Fukui City Art Museum, Fukui / Yume no Ato – Was vom Traum blieb, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden / Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany / SCOPE, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya / Gendai: Japanese Contemporary Art – Between the Body and Space, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
• 2001: Galerie Michael Zink, Munich, Germany / Ghost, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy / Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA / The Big ID, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA / Reflection of the Earth, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Iowa, USA
• 2002: Emotional Site, Shokuryo Building, Tokyo / Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA / The Japanese Experience Inevitable, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany [Traveled to Museum der Moderne Salzburg in 2004] / Jap in the box, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK / Connections (Evan Holloway, Matthew Ronay, Hiroshi Sugito), Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USA
• 2003: Opening Exhibition, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo / Antonio Calderara and Hiroshi Sugito, Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich, Germany / Interview with Painting, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy / Japan Rising, Museum of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida, USA / 8th Istanbul Biennial Poetic Justice, Istanbul, Turkey / Gulliver Art Expedition, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo / Temporary exhibition space in Chicago, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany / Antonio Calderara & Hiroshi Sugito, Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich, Germany
• 2004: Japanese Experience Inevitable, Museum der Moderne Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria / Time of My Life: Art with Youthful Spirit, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo / Why Not Live for Art?, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo / Over the Rainbow – Hiroshi Sugito and Yoshitomo Nara, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany / K21, Düsseldorf, Germany (Traveled Mar 2005) / VOCA 1994-2003: 10 Years of Award-winning Works, Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki / Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo / Somewhere – Hiroshi Sugito and Yoshitomo Nara, Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich, Germany / 10th Anniversary, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany / REAL WORLD: The dissolving space of experience, Modern Art Oxford, UK
• 2005: The Triumph of Painting, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK / Japan Pop, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
• 2006: Talking Pictures, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany / March part 1, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya / A to Z, Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki, Aomori / 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo / Approaching Landscape, Galerie Michael Zink, Munich, Germany / Everyday Life and Beyond, Musée Hamaguchi Yozo: Yamasa Collection, Tokyo
• 2007: Portrait Session, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima / Portrait Session @ NADiff, NADiff, Tokyo / Painting as Forest: Artist as Thinker, Mindscape Museum (Okazaki City Museum), Okazaki, Aichi / Silly Adult, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark / The Door into Summer: The Age of Micropop, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Ibaraki
• 2008: 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea / drawings – Thinking Hands, Nagoya Citizens’ Gallery Yada, Nagoya
• 2009: In the Little Playground: Nobuya Hitsuda and his students, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya / Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo / Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln (The Japan Foundation), Cologne, Germany
• 2010: Garden of Painting: Japanese Art of the 00s, The National Museum of Art, Osaka / Paintings of Stories, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata
• 2011: Art in an Office, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi / CAFE in Mito 2011, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Ibaraki
• 2012: A Stroll through the Garden, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Nagaizumi, Shizuoka
• 2013: Painting, let’s call it love vol.9: Masato Kobayashi + Hiroshi Sugito, gallery αM, Tokyo / Re: Quest – Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, South Korea / Aichi Triennale 2013, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya [Collaboration with Jun Aoki]
• 2014: Logical Emotion – Contemporary Art from Japan, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
• 2015: Logical Emotion – Contemporary Art from Japan, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (MOCAK), Poland [Feb 12 – Apr 26, 2015] / Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle (Saale), Germany [May 22 – Jul 26, 2015] / Hiroshi Taguchi Art Collection: Paradigm Shift – Journey Around the Contemporary Art World, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu [Feb 3 – May 17, 2015]
• 2016: TABLE OF THREE (Masato Kobayashi, Takeshi Makishima, Hiroshi Sugito), ShugoArts Weekend Gallery, Tokyo [Jun 26 – Aug 7, 2016] / 50th Anniversary Exhibition Art Begins from the Forest, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Art Museum, etc., Nagakute, Aichi [Sep 3 – 24, 2016]
• 2017: 15th Anniversary Exhibition Tree of Life, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Nagaizumi, Shizuoka / THE ART SHOW – Millennium Art in the Taguchi Art Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki, Gunma / Atsuhiko Misawa: Animal House, The Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo

Selected Public Collections

Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art / Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) / The National Museum of Art, Osaka / Takamatsu Art Museum / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) / The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Limited / Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum / Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota Art Collection) / Saatchi Collection, London / Goetz Collection, Munich / The Japan Foundation / Fuchu Art Museum / Oita Prefectural Art Museum (OPAM)