Naotaka Hiro
Biography
Born in Osaka, Japan, 1972
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
2000 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, MFA
1997 University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, BA
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2025
Roppongi Crossing, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Of Two, Bortolami, New York, NY2024
Two Worlds, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
Limbs, Anatomy, Grandview, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo2022
Sand-man, Bortolami, New York, NY2021
Green Door, Herald St, London, UK
Armor, The Box, Los Angeles, CA2019
In the Ravine, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
Subterranean & Wanderer, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY2018
Breaking the Waves, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL2017
Gibbous, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY2016
Peaking, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
Big Question, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY2015
Red Olive, Golden Lips, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan2013
Pit and Log, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY2012
Unknown, Video Works 2006 – 2011, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY2009
To and From, with Sid M. Dueñas, Dobaebacsa, Seoul, South Korea2008
Wrong Person, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
Naotaka Hiro, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
To and From, with Sid M. Dueñas, The Box, Los Angeles, CA2007
Knows Nothing, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan1999
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan -
2026
New Paintings, ROH Projects, Jakarta, Indonesia2025
Roppongi Crossing 2025: What Passes Is Time. We Are Eternal, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Second Annual Exhibition, The Campus, Hudson, NY
No Boundaries, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Naotaka Hiro, Elliott Hundley, Tadáskía, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA2024
What It Becomes, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Painting Paintings: Collection 1980s – Present, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY2023
Papertrail, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles, CA2022
Shadow Tracer, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
New Abstracts: Recent Acquisitions, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Open Storage: 25 Years of Collecting, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX
The Hearing Trumpet, Part I, Galerie Marguo, Paris, France2021
Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY
Critical Path Method, Baltimore, MD
Sprits in the Material World, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY2020
Forevermore Part 1, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
Seven Stations: Selections from MOCA’s Collection, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Le Hangar, LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS / Misako & Rosen, Brussels, Belgium
Myselves curated by Joshua Friedman, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
In the Meanwhile...Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, curated by Julie Joyce, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
50+50: A Creative Century from Chouinard to CalArts, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
Cult of the Crimson Queen, curated by Michelle Segre, Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, NY
Rituals of Regard and Recollection, curated by Tricia Heuring, Law Warschaw Gallery, St. Paul, MN2019
Disruptive Selection, Popcorn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Flat Files, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
Miho Dohi, Naotaka Hiro, Wataru Tominaga, Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles, CA2018
Happy Mind – Natural High, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo
Naotaka Hiro, Eric Wesley, Pooneh Maghazehe & Robin Peck, Step Sister, New York, NY
Made in L.A., curated by Anne Ellegood and Erin Christovale, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Hog’s Curve, Halsey McKay Gallery, New York, NY
Alan Shields Project, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY2017
Abstract / Not Abstract, curated by Jeffrey Deich and Larry Gagosian, The Moore Building, Miami, FL
Sayonara Jupiter, curated by Misako & Rosen together with XYZ Collective, 356 S. Mission Rd., Los Angeles, CA
Between Words and Silence: The Work of Translation, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
The Ecstasy of Mary Shelley, curated by Virginia Broersma, Nick Brown and Kio Griffith, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA2016
Protuberances, LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA Placebound, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA
A Modest Proposal, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY
Human After All, VCUarts, Richmond, VA
impromptu, The Box, Los Angeles, CA2015
Guy Goodwin, Heather Guertin, Naotaka Hiro, Dave McDermott, Jason Meadows, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY
Alfred Jarry Archipelago: La valse des paintins – Act II, La Ferme du Buisson Centre d’Art Contemporain, Noisiel, Paris, France
RSVP Los Angeles: The Project Series at Pomona, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Mirror Effect, organized with Kate Costello & Liz Craft, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
Half Empty: Dan Finsel, Naotaka Hiro, Mateo Tannatt, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY Where The Sand Worm Slumbers, curated by Adam D. Miller and Devon Oder of The Pit, Charlie James, Los Angeles, CA2014
Is the art pretty? No, says Mummy. Pretty is not important. with James Buss, Beefhaus, Dallas, TX
Men in LA: Three Generations of Drawings, The Box, Los Angeles, CA East Side to the West Side, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY2011
PT. & PT. with Sid M. Duenas, High Desert Test Site, Joshua Tree, CA
Object for the Living, Post, curated by Karen Lofgren, Los Angeles, CA
Happy Mind My Pleasure – My View, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan2010
SYMPATHETIC MAGIC: VIDEO MYTHS AND RITUALS, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
ATLAS OF GIFTED IDEAS, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA 2009 GEBA GEBA, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
EXTRA EXTRA, China Art Objects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA2008
ARTIST AS PUBLISHER, The Center for Book Arts, New York
N FIGURES, curated by William E. Jones, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA2007
TRUDI: No Jerks, curated by Catherine Taft and Matthew Chambers, RENTAL, New York, NY2006
Many Many Guys And Girls, All Real Beauties, Circus of Books Gallery, curated by Julian Hoeber, LA, CA
AJA XX: API/2, curated by Kazuhiro Kosaka, JACCC, Los Angeles, CA
Polysphäre, raumcommander, Berlin, Germany Panic Our Older Brother, ALM Gallery, Munich, Germany2004
Mañana Art Fes, Yutaka Sone Studio, Pasadena, CA2003
Prague Biennale1, National Gallery Veletrzni Palac Dukelskych, Prague, Czech Republic2002
Young Japanese Artists, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, CA Landscape, Zero One Gallery, Los Angeles, CA2001
Hiropon Show, curated by Takashi Murakami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan New Romantic, Diannepruess Gallery, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA2000
Artificial Real, LOW, Los Angeles, CA1998
Re-Lax, Gallery Krinzinger, curated by Paul McCarthy, Vienna, Austria
Ero Pop Christmas, curated by Takashi Murakami, Nadiff, Tokyo, Japan1997
Doug Aitken, Alex Bag, Naotaka Hiro, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Imprudent, Wight Gallery at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA -
2019
Naotaka Hiro: Peaking #1 & #2 (Extended Edits), in collaboration with Misako & Rosen, Hove, UK2018
Bodies 2, France Los Angeles Exchange (FLAX), curated by Fabien Danesi, Los Angeles, CA2016
Raw 2016, Reed College, Portland, OR2010
Milwaukee International: NO SOUL FOR SALE, Tate Modern, London, UK2009
I Found Myself an Innovator, curated by Rachel Cook/ Yuki Okumura, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
The Young and Evil, REDCAT, curated by Stuart Comer, Los Angeles, CA2008
Murder Pretened, Festival Internacional Cervantino, curated by Naotaka Hiro, Guanajuato
The Young and Evil, tank.tv, curated by Stuart Comer
Murder Pretended, Casa Vecina, curated by Naotaka Hiro, Mexico City, Mexico Saison Video,
Physical, “Portrait”, “ideal #10”, Roubaix, France2007
Artwalk After Party 2007, LACMA MUSE, Los Angeles, CA2001
Inaugural Screening, c-level, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA1998
Good-Bye, Eniwetok, Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, CA1997
Carl’s Place 2, LACE, Los Angeles, CA Carl’s Place, Quon Bros., Los Angeles, CA -
2021
“Vitamin D3: Today’s Best in Contemporary Drawing”, Phaidon
“Moving a Painting (with Eight Notes on Atsuko)”, essay by Naotaka Hiro, You & i are Earth organized by Fergus Feehily, Paper Visual Art2020
“Polar Star”, X–TRA Magazine, Fall/Winter 2020, Vol. 23, No. 12018
“Made in L.A. 2018”, exhibition catalog2015
“RSVP Los Angeles: The Project Series at Pomona,” exhibition catalog, Essay by Glenn Phillips
“Where the Sand Worm Slumbers,” exhibition catalog 2008 To and From, with Sid M. Dueñas 2006 “Corona Issue no.1,” with Sid M. Dueñas -
2020
Artist Talk, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Artist Talk, MFA Fine Arts Lecture Series, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA2016
Artist Talk, Reed College, Portland, OR2015
Artist Talk, In Conversation with Glenn Phillips, Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, CA2014
Artist Talk, Pomona College, Pomona, CA2009
Podcast, Dialogue with artist Koki Tanaka, Kotobani su ru2008
Curator Talk, Casa Vecina, Mexico City, Mexico, June 26
Artist Talk, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, May 20 2006
Artist Talk, JACCC, Los Angeles, CA -
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
Santa Barbara Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA
University of Chicago, IL
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Taguchi Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Tumurun Museum, Surakarta, Indonesia
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
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