Toshiaki Hicosaka 彦坂敏昭
telephone: (+81) 90 – 2266 – 3916 ( JP)

3rd January, 2021

e-mail: t@hicosaka.com

website: http://hicosaka.com

Born in Aichi, 1982.

Education

BFA, Department of Information Design: Kyoto University of Art and Design

Profesional Experiences

Facilitator: Higashiyama Youth Activity Center Workshop, Kyoto, Japan (2018 - present )Lecturer(part-time): Onomichi City University, Hiroshima, Japan (2018)
Lecturer(part-time): Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts, Okayama, Japan (2014 - 2019)
Lecturer: Kyoto University of Art and Design (2012 - present)

Solo Show

2020

Flash, FINCH ARTS, Kyoto, Japan2018

We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam istaken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using the old beams anddriftwood the ship can be shaped entirely anew, but only by gradual reconstruction., HARMAS GALLERY, Tokyo2017

To Look at the Fire, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London

2016

Touching / Touched by, AISHONANZUKA, HongKong

2013

Joining Lines, Aisho Miura Arts, Tokyo / SANSEIDO Gallery, Hyogo, Japan

2010

Rule – Sule – Tule, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo

2009

ARKO 2009 Toshiaki Hicosaka, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan *catalogue( JP)2008

ARCO Solo Project, Ifema, Madrid, Spain

2008

Explorative Process Drawing, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo (Shiseido Art Egg Award #2)

2008

ARTIST ON BOARD, TAMADA PROJECT ARTSPACE, Tokyo

2006

edit edition, Stem Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2004

A Place Reached by Darkness, Gallery Te, Tokyo

2004

Explorative Process Drawing, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan*catalogue( JP/EN)

Group Show

2020

Rollin' Rollin', FINCH ARTS, Kyoto, Japan

2020

OBJECT at Anteroom, Hotel Anteroom Kyoto Gallery9.5, Japan

2020

OBJECT at VOU, VOU, Kyoto

2020

Big Hug Transformation, Galerie5, Paris

2019

Open Studio×10, Studio USA, Kyoto, Japan2019

MAIX（Malaysia Artist’s Intension Experiment）, TEMPAT BIBAH, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2019

Kiso Paintings, Ybuhara, Kiso-mura, Nagano, Japan *catalogue( JP/EN)

2018

VOCA, the Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo2018

Sensitivity and Emergence, POLA Museum Annex, Tokyo

2018

Oedinary Children of the 20th Century, Galerie Aube, Kyoto, Japan2017

Enokojima Art Days 2017 - OTHER WAYS -, Enokojima Art, Culture and Creative Centre, Osaka Prefecture [enoco], Osaka
Japan *catalogue( JP/EN)

2017

Sensitivity and Emergence, POLA Museum Annex, Tokyo

2015

Yabunonaka, Galerie Aube (Kyoto University of Art and Design), Kyoto, Japan2014egØ – Re-examining the Self, punto, Kyoto, Japan *catalogue( JP/EN)

2012

New Phases in Contemporary Painting, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan *catalogue( JP/EN)

2011

TRANS COMPLEX – The Painting in the Age of Information, Kyoto Art Center, Japan *catalogue( JP/EN)2010

No Man’s Land -Nouvelle Me’tamorphose Du Lieu, Ambassade de France au Japon, Tokyo

2009

RAIN MEETS THE SUN", MK Ciurlionis National Art Museum, Kaunas, Lietuva *catalogue(EN)2009tequila te quiero", Gallery ni mode, Tokyo

2009

Niche", Nroom artspace, Tokyo

2009

BAROCK PLASTIK", I-MYU Projects, London

2008

The White", MA2 Gallery, Tokyo

2009

Twenty., Dazed and Confused, London

2008

Drawing", Tsuchiya Contemporary Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan2008

MOT annual 2008 Unraveling and Revealing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo *catalogue( JP/EN)

2007

41st-rate Art Streams", Gallery Te, Tokyo

2006

GEISAI#10", Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo

2006

Echigo-tsumari Art Triennial, Tokamachi-city, Niigata, Japan *catalogue( JP)2006

Flowering Dogwood Street Everyone's an Artist", Fukagawa Museum Road Shopping Street, Tokyo

2006

Pyramid Scheme", maru gallery, Tokyo

2005

HIDDEN DIMENSION", The Temporary Contemporary, Tokyo *catalogue( JP)2005

Communication Art Exhibition", Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Japan2005

Ki-ha(Qi School)", Gallery Te, Tokyo

2005

Selected Artists in Kyoto: New Wave 2005, The Museum of Kyoto, Japan *catalogue( JP)2004TOKYO COMPETITION", Marunouchi Building, Tokyo *catalogue( JP)Public Lecture & Talk event

2020

Kyoto:Re-Search | Nantan City Hall, Kyoto, Japan 15th September

2019

MAIX(Malaysia Artist’s Intension Experiment) | MAIX HOUSE, Kuala Kangsar, Malaysia 7th July2016

DECOBOCO Gathering Toshiaki Hicosaka | Mark Studio, Osaka, Japan 18th April

2016

Newspaper Sketches of Ocean Waves: Technosphere at the Edge of Globalisation | Cultural Typhoon2016, Tokyo 3rd July

2014

Ohara Contemporary at Musabi | Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo 30th June *catalogue( JP)2005

Speaking New Faces, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Workshop

2019

Root｜Organizer: Children's Academy of Art and Education, Kyoto, Japan2019

To draw a sea｜Organizer: KISO Paintnings, Nagano, Japan2018

Higashiyama Art Space｜Organizer:Higashiyama Youth Activity Center, Kyoto, Japan2017

To pick up the shadow｜Organizer: The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, UK

2017

To pick up the shadow｜Organizer: Enokojima Art Days, Osaka, Japan2014

Self-portrait｜Organizer: Osaka City Museum of Modern Art

2014

Self-portrait｜Organizer: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

2012

Self-portrait｜Organizer: Ichijigahaku, Fukushima, Japan2011

Drawing | Organizer: Arts Alive, Tokyo

2011

Drawing | Organizer: Arts Alive, Tokyo2010

The painter | Organizer: Arts Alive, Shizuoka, Japan2010

The painter | Organizer: Arts Alive, Tokyo

Contribution & Publication

NEWSPAPER SKETCHES OF OCEAN WAVESANTHROPOCENECURRICULUM
Berlin）（HKW、WEBSITE：https://www.anthropocene-curriculum.org/contribution/newspaper-sketches-of-ocean-waves（2017）

Awards & Grants

2017

Nominated for VOCA, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
Recommended by Mizuki Endo

2016

Shortlisted for Hariban Award 2016, the Benrido Collotype Atelier, Kyoto, Japan
Judged by Peter Barberie, Marc Feustel and Mariko Takeuchi

2016

Shortlisted for 500m Award 2016, Sapporo Odori 500-m Underground Walkway Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan
Judged by Noi Sawaragi and Mizuki Endo2015

Grant for Overseas Research (London and Iceland), Pola Art Foundation, Japan2014

Shortlisted for The 6th Kinutani Koji Award, The Mainichi Newspaper, Japan
Recommended by Tomoyuki Mitsui

2011

The winner of The DRAFT of Exihibition, Kyoto Art Center, Japan
Judged by Yuko Hasegawa and Koji Hirayoshi

2009

Selected as a Grant Award recipient, The Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York, USA

2009

Nominated for ARKO2009, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan

2008

Nominated for The Shiseido Art Egg Award, Shiseido Gallery, Japan
Judged by Okabe Aomi, Curator, and Tsutomu Mizusawa)

2004

TOKYO COMPETITION, Tokyo, Japan

Residencies

2016MAIX(Malaysia Artist’s Intension Experiment), Kuala Kangsar, Malaysia (2 weeks)

2016

NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland (2 months)

2015

STANLEY PROJECT, London, UK (11 months)

2014

Tool, Aichi, Japan (10 days)

2009

ARKO 2009, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan (3 months)

Collections

JAPIGOZZI Collection, Japan
Ohara Museum of Art, Japan
Takahashi Collection, Japan

Bibliography(EN)2017

Cleo Roberts (UKIERI PhD Researcher): To Look at the Fire Toshiaki Hicosaka, Art Asia Pacific
Web: http://artasiapacific.com/Magazine/WebExclusives/ToLookAtTheFire

2014

Isabella Tam (Curator of M+, Hong Kong): Emerging voice in Japanese contemporary art,egØ – Re-examining the Self, p.14

2014

Hiroshi Yoshioka (Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory, Kyoto University, Japan): On Hicosaka’s works,
Joining Lines, pp.15-16

2013

Dehara Hitoshi (Curator of Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan): The Whisperings of Painters,
New Phases inContemporary Painting, pp.109-113

2012

Yuko Hasegawa (Curator of Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo): On Murayama and Hicosaka’s works,
TRANS COMPLEX – The Painting in the Age of Information, pp.61-62

2008

Mihoko Nishikawa (Curator of Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo): Asian Contemporary Artist,
Art in Asia No.04, Hong Kong