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1. Bear Fishing, 2009, acrylic, oil on canvas, 30” x 40”
      Private collection
2. Above Clouds, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 52” x 64”
      Collection of Woodmere Museum
3. Future Home Town, 2004, acrylic on canvas, 24” x 30”
4. Hibachi Night, 2005, acrylic on canvas, 28” x 22”
      Private collection
5. Chrysanthemum & Praying Mantis, 2005, acrylic on
     canvas, 28” x 22”
      Private collection
6. Wind, Flower & Farewell, 2005, acrylic on canvas,
     22” x 28”
7. Great Wall, 2009, acrylic, oil on canvas, 72” x 96”
8. Endless Traveler, 2008,acrylic and ink on canvas,
     30” x 40”
      Private collection
9. Eye of the Harricane, 2009, graphite, watercolor on
     paper, 40” x 50”
10. Climber, 2007, graphite, watercolor on paper, 18” x 24”
11. Pin wheel, 2006, graphite, watercolor on paper,
       9” x 12”
       Collection of Philadelphia Museum of Art
12. My house is your house, 2009, graphite, watercolor,
       ink on canvas, 9” x 12”
13. Boat with Pin Wheel & Hibachi Engine, 2009, graphite,
        ink on paper, 42” x 58”
14. Anonymous Couple/ Miniature, 2007, graphite,
        watercolor on vellum, 3.25”x4”
15. Taste divider/ after green sushi grass Baren, 2009,
        plywood, reflective mylar, 48” x 62” x 8”

Contact Information
e-mail: hirothepainter@gmail.com
Please contact artist for purchases, commissions, etc.

Artist Statement
I am interested in making an object, which contains a fictional realm that is relevant to my experience as an artist and an individual. I depict images or making objects gathered from my everyday life experience, interest and memory. By making artworks, I am after a story, which leads the viewer’s visual and conceptual departure.

Education
1996
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
MFA

1993
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
BFA, Painting

Professional Experience
Present
Faculty
Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

Adjunct Faculty, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, PA

Packing and Installation Technician, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

2007 - 2010
Mentor: MFA Program, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2002
Adjunct Faculty, Painting Department, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Awards and Honors
2008
PULSE MIAMI, Miami, Florida,( Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo)

Panelist for artist discussion “Beyond Super-flat”, Philadelphia Museum of Art

2007
Visiting Artist “Food for Thought”, Summer MFA, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2006
90.1 WRTI, “Creatively Speaking” featuring “Picture journal Project”

2005
The Alumni Travel Grant, The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia PA

2004
The Choice of Award, City Paper, Philadelphia, PA

Fleisher Challenge Exhibitions, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

Melbourne Art Fair, Australia, (Mizuma Art gallery, Tokyo)

1998
Panelist for Artist Discussion, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Featuring RIKRIT TIRAVANIJA.

Collections
Night Kitchen Interactive, Philadelphia, PA
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Exhibitions

Solo

2009
Idle Daydreams, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2007
Traveler’s Tale, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2006
Away, The Center for Emerging Visual Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2004
ESORAGOTO (Untrue like in painting), Challenge Exhibitions 2, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

2000
I paint , Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA

1997
Cities on the Move, T. Ozawa’s Project, Nasubi Gallery, Wiener Secession, Austria

Group

2010
Philadelphia Story, Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Curator: Sarah Roche

2009
Landscape Show, Hubner & Hubner Gallery, Frankfult, Germany

2008
Fantastical Imagining, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Curator: Susan Isaacs

Global Suburbia, Abington Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
Curator: Sue Spaid

Sense of Place, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia.

Emerging to Established, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Useless Weapon, Green Lantern, Chicago, IL

2007
Naked Paper, Tower Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Drawnwork, Littman Gallery, Portland, OR

Christopher Hartshorne & Hiro Sakaguchi, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2006
Sub Terrane, The Center For Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA
Curator: Sean Stoops

Diorama!, Padlock Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Curator: Alina Josan

Works on Paper 2006, Arcadia University Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA
Juror: Cornelia Butler, curator of drawing, MOMA, NY

2005
Drawing for it 2, Spector Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Since 1994, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

NHABIT, Apartment show, Philadelphia, PA
Curator: Sean Stoops

2004
Answer with Yes and No, T. Ozawa Exhibit, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Kotatsu-ha 2, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan,
Curator: Makoto Aida

2003
Creative Artists Network at The West Collection at SEI,
Oaks, PA
Curator: Lee Stoetzel

2002
15 Exposure, US Artists, 33rd Street Armory, Philadelphia, PA

1999
Cities on the Move, Nasubi Gallery, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinski, Finland

1997
Kotatsu-ism, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Curator: Makoto Aida

Exhibitions Curated
2010
I can not get you out of my mind, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Caution Art in Here, Cerulean Art, Philadelphia, PA

2009
My Dog Speaks, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2008
Useless Weapon, Green Lantern, Chicago, IL

2006
Picture Journal project