Hiraku Suzuki

Born 1978. After obtaining his MFA at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, he has undertaken residencies in Sydney, Sao Paulo, London, New York, and Berlin. Focusing on the interconnection between drawing and writing or picture and language, his practice encompasses a large variety of media, including two-dimensional works, installations, murals, video, performance, and sculpture. His art explores the potentiality of drawing in an expanded notion through the act of excavating the lines in time and space.

Recent solo exhibitions have included those held at The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma (Gunma, 2023), Aomori Contemporary Art Center (Aomori, 2015), Daiwa Foundation (London, 2013), Wimbledon Space (London,2011), Galerie du Jour (Paris, 2010). Group exhibitions include "MOT Annual 2019 Echo after Echo" The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Tokyo, 2019), "Very Addictive" Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art (China, 2016), "Think Tank Lab Triennale" Wroclaw Architectural Museum （Poland, 2015）, "Vancouver Biennale" (Canada, 2014), "Nissan Art Award" Bank Art (Kanagawa, 2013), "Son et Lumière, et sagesse profonde" 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Ishikawa,2013), and "Roppongi Crossing" Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2010). He has collaborated with musicians and poets, and has carried out many large-scale public projects. Since 2016 he has been organizing "Drawing Tube", an international platform for alternative drawing research and practices. Published books of his works include "SILVER MARKER―Drawing as Excavating" (HeHe, 2020) and "GENGA" (Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2010). Since 2021 he is an associate professor at Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Global Art Practice.

Biography

1978　born in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.
Currently lives and works in Kanagawa, Japan
【Education】
2008　MFA, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo
2001　BFA, Musashino Art University, Tokyo

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Solo Exhibitions

2023 ”Excavation Today" – The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma (Gunma)
2019 "Excavating Reflections" Galerie chantiers Boîte Noire (Montpellier, France)
2019 "The WALL 01 SUZUKI Hiraku" Sapporo Odori 500-m Underground Walkway Gallery (Hokkaido, Japan)
2018 "The Writing of Meteors, Each Modern" (Taipei, Taiwan)
2018 "Traffic" Art Front Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2017 "Project Exhibition - Hiraku Suzuki" rin art association (Gumma, Japan)
2017 "Road" Art House Asobara (Chiba, Japan)
2016 "Constellations" Seibu Shibuya (Tokyo, Japan)
2015 "GENZO" Misa Shin Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2015 "Signs of Faraway" Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (Aomori, Japan)
2013 "Excavated Reverberations" Daiwa Foundation (London, UK)
2011 "Glyphs of the Light" WIMBLEDON space (London, UK)
2010 "U" island MEDIUM (Tokyo, Japan)
2010 "GENGA and Recent Drawings" Galerie du Jour Agnes b. Librarie (Paris, France)
2008 "NEW CAVE" Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya(Tokyo, Japan)
2006 "dig" Galerie du Jour Agnes b. Librarie (Paris, France)
2004 "NAZO" Uplink Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2003 "Hiraku Suzuki" INAX Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2000 "bacteria sign" Gallery Fresca (Tokyo, Japan)

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Group Exhibitions

2023 "The Universe" / Hankyu Men's Osaka, Osaka
2022 "MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2022" / Yebisu Garden Place, Tokyo
2022 "MOT Collection: Garden of Light / Continuing Whispers" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
2022 "Drawings – Plurality" Parco Musem Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2019 "MOT Annual 2019 Echo after Echo : Summoned Voices, New Shadows", Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
2019 "Globe as a Palette ; Contemporary Art from The Taguchi Art Collection", Sapporo Art Museum, Hokkaido, Japan
2019 "DES PHOTOGRAPHES … DES ARTISTES ET LE CARDIGAN PRESSION", 17 rue Dieu, Paris, France
2019 "Globe as a Palette ; Contemporary Art from The Taguchi Art Collection", Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan
2019 "BOOM, MO.CO. Panacée", Montpellier, France
2019 "Globe as a Palette ; Contemporary Art from The Taguchi Art Collection", Obihiro Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan
2019 "Globe as a Palette ; Contemporary Art from The Taguchi Art Collection, Kushiro Art Museum", Hokkaido
, Japan
2019 "Art Miyagi 2019, The Miyagi Museum of Art", Miyagi, Japan
2018 "Arawashi No Uta, Hajimari Art Centre", Fukushima, Japan
2018 "BEYOND WONDER -Perspectives of Utopia, Nagoya University of Arts", Aichi, Japan
2018 "Contemporary Art of the 21st Century" Hiratsuka Museum of Art, kanagawa, Japan
2018 "psmg vol.003 Hiraku Suzuki × contact Gonzo" contact Gonzo Office, Osaka, Japan
2018 "Collection Exhibition: 3 Adventure in Seeing" 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2017 "The Riddle of Art – Takahashi Collection" Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
2017 "Flap-flop, Clap-clop: A Place Where Words Are Born" Arts Maebashi (Gumma, Japan)
2017 "TAKAHASHI COLLECTION" Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto (Kumamoto, Japan)
2017 "Sensitivity and Saltation" at POLA MUSEUM ANNEX (Tokyo, Japan)
2016 "TAKAHASHI COLLECTION" Kanaz Forest of Creation (Fukui, Japan)
2016 "Very Addictive – Re extension of Aesthetics in Daily Life" MOCA Yinchuan (Ningxia Prov. China)
2016 "Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2016, Garden in Movement" Yebisu Garden Place (Tokyo, Japan)
2015 "THINK TANK Lab Triennale/ International Festival of Contemporary Drawing" Museum of Architecture (Wrocław, Poland）
2015 "5x3" Kunstraum Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf, Germany)
2015 "COSMOS/INTIME" Maison de la culture du Japon a` Paris (Paris, France)
2015 "TRAITS d'esprit" Galerie du Jour Agnes b. (Paris, France)
2014 "Kunisaki Art Festival" (Oita, Japan)
2014 "Vancouver Biennale" (Vancouver, Canada)
2014 "DRAWING NOW PARIS" Carreau du Temple (Paris, France)
2013 "NISSAN ART AWARD 2013" BankART Studio NYK (Yokohama, Japan)
2013 "TAKAHASHI COLLECTION - Mindfullness!" Kirishima Open-Air Museum (Kagoshima, Japan), Sapporo Art Museum (Hokkaido, Japan)
2013 "DRAWING NOW PARIS" Carrousel du Louvre (Paris, France)
2013 "Wall Art Festival Warli" Jivan Sikshan Mandir Ganjad (Dahanu, India)
2012 "son et lumie`re, et" 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Ishikawa, Japan)
2012 "Panta Rhei - Hiraku Suzuki / Takehito Koganezawa" TALION Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2012 "One And Many" Location One (New York, US)
2011 "Far Away From the Surface - Hiraku Suzuki / Takuro Osaka" TALION Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2011 "DRAWING" island MEDIUM (Tokyo, Japan)
2010 "Roppongi Crossing 2010" Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan)
2009 "House of Art" Hotel Central (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
2009 "100 Stories About Love" 21st Century Museum of Contemporay Art (Kanazawa, Japan)
2009 "Re:Membering -Next of Japan-" Gallery LOOP（ Seoul, Korea）
2009 "VOCA - vision of contemporary art" The Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo, Japan)
2009 "Between Places: Site, Space & History" ARTSPACE （Sydney, Australia)
2008 "FIX･MIX･MAX!2ーthe front line of contemporary art" Miyanomori Art Museum (Hokkaido, Japan)
2008 "MIMITOME" TOU SCENE (Stavanger, Norway)
2008 "Diorama of the city" Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya (Tokyo,Japan)
2004 "Tokyo Style in Stockholm" Karl_Jjohans Torg (Stockholm, Sweden)
2004 "Tokyo Style in Gothenburg" Roda Sten (Gothenburg, Sweden）

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Awards

2017 　Grand Prize of The FID Prize International Drawing Contest (Paris, France)
2013　Nissan Art Award 2013 finalist (Japan)
【Residence program】
2023 　Japanese Government Oversea Research Program Grant, Agency for Cultural Affairs, residency at DRAWinternational (Caylus, France)
2012 - 2013　 Pola Art Foundation Fellowship (Berlin, Germany)
2011 - 2012 　Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, Residency at Location One (New York, US)
2011 　Tokyo Wonder Site exchange program, Chelsea College of Art & Design (London, UK)
2009 　Redbull House of Art (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
2009 　ARTSPACE (Sydney, Australia)

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Collection / Public Art

21st Century Museum of Contemporay Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
Agnes b. Collection, Paris, France
Arts Maebashi, Gumma, Japan
Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Nissan Art Collection, Kanagawa, Japan
City of Oita, Oita, Japan
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan
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