Hiraki Sawa

Born 1977 in Ishikawa, Japan. Lives and works in London*education
2001-2003 MFA Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
1997-2000 BA(hons) Fine Art, University of East London*solo exhibitions/screenings
04.15 Terrain, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
01.14 Under the Box, Beyond the Bounds, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo Japan10.13 Lenticular, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK
04.12 Lineament, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
03.12 Hiraki Sawa: Videos, Museum Goch, Goch, Germany
06.10 Hiraki Sawa – Carrousel, Musée du Temps and Musée National des Beaux-Arts de Besançon,Besançon, France
11.08 Hiraki Sawa, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, US
09.07 Hiraki Sawa – Hako, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
06.06 Hiraki Sawa – Six Good Reasons to Stay at Home, National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
11.05 Hiraki Sawa, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, US
02.05 Hammer Projects – Hiraki Sawa, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
11.04 Going Places Sitting Down, Hayward Gallery/Bloomberg Artist Commission for Waterloo Sunset, theDan Graham Pavilion, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
11.03 Dwelling, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK
07.03 Hiraki Sawa, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK* Group exhibitions/screenings
03.16 Roppongi Crossing ‘My Body, Your Voice’, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
09.13 The 12th Biennale de Lyon, group show, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
01.13 True Illusion, Illusory Truth, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
06.12 Flight and the Artistic Imagination, Compton Verney Gallery, Warwickshire, UK
09.11 Dark Matters, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
03.11 BYE BYE KITTY!!!, Japan Society, New York, US
05.10 The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

12.09 The 6th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art,
Brisbane, Australia
03.08 Artist File 2008, National Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan
10.07 12th Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
10.06 Dual realities, 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Media City, Seoul, South Korea
09.05 Art Circus: Jumping from the Ordinary, Yokohama Triennial, Yamashita Pier, Yokohama, Japan
09.05 Thoughts of a Fish in the Deep Sea, Valencia Biennial, Convent of the Carmen, Valencia, Spain
09.03 C’est Arrivé Demain, 7ième Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Musée d’Art §Contemporain, Lyon, France
11.02 New Contemporaries 2002, Barbican Curve, London, UK*Awards
2010 Goto Award
2006 Decibel Award for Artists
2002 East International Award*Public Collections
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
CAB, Burgos, Spain
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Leon, Spain
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, JapanArts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, US
The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, USDetroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, US
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, USAichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, JapanUBS Art Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Norton Family Collection, USNational Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia