Who am I?

Education & Diplomas , Catalogues , Solo Shows , Selected Group Shows , International Exhibitions & Salons ,
Radio & Television (video) Reports , Prizes , Public Orders & Public Art , Bibliography , Catalogues , Miscellaneous , Collections , Virtual Galleries , E-mail

Shigeko HIRAKAWA

Born in Kurume (Fukuoka, Japan) in 1953.
Moves to Tokyo in 1961.
Begins to work as a visual artist in 1980.
Living and working in France receiving a French scholarship in 1983.
Settles in artist studio of Châtenay-Malabry (7 km in the south of Paris) allocated by French Minister of Culture in 1992.

Catalogues

	2006 Tree of Photosynthesis Catalogue of the solo show in Argenteuil City, France Texts by Adeline Tricher-Lardennois, Shigeko Hirakawa Supervision of English by Darran Biles	2006 Air Catalogue of the installations on the theme of Air Text by Shigeko Hirakawa Supervision of English by Darran Biles
2003 Connected Air & Domesticated Water 2003 Pamphlet regarding the installation commissioned by the Herault Department Council in Montpellier. Text by Shigeko Hirakawa Translation into English by Laurence Hanon	2001 Water Followed Catalogue of the solo show at the Maison des Arts of Malakoff City, France. Texts by Olivier Delavallade, Shigeko Hirakawa, Translation by Michelle Noteboom.	1999 Five Red Spheres Catalogue of the artwork for the collection of the Graduate School ofMathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo. Texts by Taketoshi Kohno, Katsumi Miyazaki, Shigeko Hirakawa. Translation by Stan Anderson.
1998 Selected Artworks 1993-1998 Text by Pierre Restany Translation by  Gerry Murtagh	1994 Shigeko Hirakawa - recent works Texts by Roger-Pierre Turine, Shigeko Hirakawa Translation by Kazutoshi Watanabe, Susan Marson	1991 Shigeko HIRAKAWA Published by the Gallery Jacques Losserand Text by Vera Székely

Education et Diplomas

1983-1986 Student of the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Olivier Debré's atelier
(1983-1986 Scholarship holder of the French Governement).
1976-1980 Student of Oil Painting,Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku / Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
Graduating in 1980
1971-1975 Student of Litterature,Tokyo Joshi Daigaku / University of Tokyo Joshi
Graduating in 1975 (History of Japan)

Solo Shows

2007 Energy Science Center/ Museum of Mine of the Nord/Pas de Calais, "Tree of Photosynthesis"  (Lewarde, France)
2006 Argenteuil City Hall Grounds "Tree of Photosynthesis" : Outdoor installation commissioned by Argenteuil City Council
Catalogue: Tree of Photosynthesis (Argenteuil, Fr.)
2005 Energy Science Center/ Museum of Mine of the Nord/Pas de Calais, "Air, lung" :
Outdoor installation commissioned by the Museum of Mine (Lewarde, France)
2005 Gallery Parisud "Air and Water" (Cachan, France)
2003 Grounds of the Château d'O "Connected Air & Domesticated Water 2003" : Outdoor installation commissioned by the Herault Department Council,
Pamphlet:Connected Air & Domesticated Water 2003 (Montpellier, France)
2001 Maison des Arts of Malakoff City "Eau Suivie" (Water Followed): Installations commissioned by the Maison des Arts Center
Catalogue: Water Followed (Malakoff, Fr.)
2001 Choisy-Le-Roi City Hall "Gesture" (Choisy-le-Roi City, Fr.)
2000 Gallery Pascal Vanhoecke - CIACC - (Paris & Cachan, Fr.)
1998 Choisy-le-Roi City Hall, Solo Show organized by The Department of Fine Arts of Choisy-le-Roi City
Catalogue: Selected Artworks 1993 - 1998 (Choisy-Le-Roi, Fr.)
1995 Gallery Lieu - Place "Photo Document in Europe" (Tokyo, Japan)
1995 Gallery Tom "More than 10 years in Paris" (Tokyo, Japan)
1995 Adelhauser Kloster Natural & Ethnological Museum and Schwarzes Kloster City Gallery;
"Torus Decoloration" organized by GEDOK / German Women Artists Association (Freiburg, Germany)
1994 Gallery Lunami (Tokyo, Japan), Catalogue: Shigeko HIRAKAWA recent works
1993 Gallery Imperts (organased by BWA National Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland)
1992 Gallery Pascal Polar (Brussels, Belgium)
1991 Factory Mutual International Ltd. in collaboration with Gallery Jacques Losserand (Annecy, Fr.)
1991 Gallery Jacques Losserand, Catalogue: Shigeko HIRAKAWA (Annecy, Fr.)
1991 Gallery Espace Archidé (Paris, Fr.)
1990 Gallery Athisma (Lyon, Fr.)
1988 Gallery Athisma (Lyon, Fr.)
1986 Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, Fr.)
1986 Galerie 8 (Paris, Fr.)
1985 Maison du Japon (Cité Internationnale Universitaire, Paris, Fr.)
1984 Maison du Japon (Cité Internationnale Universitaire, Paris, Fr.)
1982 Gallery Te (Tokyo, Japan)

Selected Group Shows

2007 "Course of Contemporary Art" (Fontenay-le-Comte, France)
2007 Gallery St Jacques "Japanese Painting" (Saint Quentin, France)
2006 Festival de l'Oh (Choisy-le Roi, France)
2005 Monos Gallery "Michael BURGES, Shigeko HIRAKAWA and invited artist Ulrike BOLENZ" (Liège, Belgium)
2004 Maison Pierres et Nature Association, Outdoor show "des toiles, des astres" (Mellé, France)
2003 The Agora "The 14th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, détour 03 / The Four Elements",
Catalogue: détour 03 (Billère, France)
2002 "Japan Festival" (Phalempin City, Fr)
2002 Maison de la Culture du Japon/Japanese Cultural Center "NAC Exposition", Catalogue: Nac (Paris, Fr.)

2001 Mécénart.com "twenty contemporary artists" (Paris, Fr.)
2001 Festival de l'Eau (Water Festival) "Parcours Sculpté 3" ("sculpted route 3"), Catalogue: Sculpted Route 3
(St-Amand les Eaux, Fr.)
1999 Gallery Pascal Vanhoecke -CIACC- "Cachan Space Opening Exhibition" (Cachan, Fr.)
1999 Toki Art Space (Tokyo, Japan.)
1998 City Hall of the 6th district of Paris "Chosen Studios" (Paris, Fr.).
1998 Maison de la Culture du Japon/Japanese Cultural Center "NAC Exposition"  Catalogue: Nac (Paris, Fr.)
1997 Gallery Pascal Vanhoecke -CIACC- "Two artists Exposition" (Paris, Fr.)
1997 Bateau Lavoir "Selected Japanese Artists - The Year of Japan", Catalogue (Paris, Fr.)
1997 Akita City Museum "Seeing through the touch", Catalogue (Akita, Japan)
1997 Miyazaki County Museum : "Touch-me"  Exposition, Catalogue (Miyazaki, Japan)
1997 Despiau-Wlerick Museum and Mont de Marsan city "Mont de Marsan Sculptures",
Catalogue: Mont de Marsan Sculptures - Japan - Site Specific Artworks  (Mont de Marsan, Fr)
1995 Neuchâtel Art Center "Bedside Books" (Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
1994 Orne Art Festival "In 8 castles" (Orne, Fr.)
1993 Gallery Janus Avivson "11 Japanese Artists in Europe", Catalogue: 11 Japanese Artists in Europe (London, UK)
1993 Gallery Espace Archidé "3 Artists of the Gallery" (Paris, Fr.)
1992 Competition "Sculptors in the City; Homage to Henri Gaudier-Brzeska" (supported by the the French Ministry of Culture),
Catalogue: Sculptors in the City (St-Jean-de-Braye, Fr.)
1991 Point JAL/Japan Air Line's Art Gallery "Art Métabole" (Paris, Fr.)
1991 Contemporary Art Center of Rouen (Rouen, Fr.)
1990 Gallery Pablo Picasso "Féminin Singulier" (organaised by Association Féminin Singulier),
Catalogue: Féminin Singulier (Denain, Fr.)
1990 Gallery Jacques Losserand "Inaugural Exhibition of the Gallery" (Annecy, Fr.)
1990 Gallery Kohlenhof "Metamorphose des Raums" (Nurnberg, Germany)
1989 Pablo Picasso Cultural Center "Burst Spaces - Open Air Exhibition" (Trith-St-Léger, Fr.)
1989 Centre d'Art Actuel (Lachassagne, Fr.)
1989 Lyrical and Cultural Animation Center of Rochefort "Young Creators in the City", Catalogue: Young Creators in the City
(Rochefort, Fr.)
1988 Centre d'Art Actuel "Art 88" (Lachassagne, Fr.)
1988 Lyrical and Cultural Animation Center of Rochefort "Young Creators in the City - 40 Artists in 30 Places of the City",
Catalogue: Young Creators in the City (Rochefort, Fr.)
1987 Centre d'Art Actuel "Lyon - Japan" (Lachassagne, Fr.)
1986 Centre d'Art Actuel "Around Degottex" (Lachassagne, Fr.)
1986 Cité Internationale des Arts "Resident Artists Exhibition '86" (Paris, Fr.)
1985 Cité Internationale des Arts "Resident Artists Exhibition '85" (Paris, Fr.)
1985 The Val d'Oise Prefectorial Hall "12 Japanese Artists", Catalogue(Cergy-Pontoise, Fr.)
1985 Gallery Bernanos "Shigeko HIRAKAWA et Mark ALDERTON" (Paris, Fr.)
1983 Gallery Micro "Photo Express in Holland from Tokyo" (Holland)
1982 Gallery Wa "Photo Express in New York from Tokyo" (New York, USA)
1981 Gallery Te (Tokyo, Japan)
1980 Gallery G Art Gallery "Symbiosis" (Tokyo, Japan)

International Exhibitions & Salons

2007  Museum of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
"Vers Paris/　To Paris, Dream of Painters for One Hundred Years" (Tokyo)
2006 Province of Liège "Poetical Spaces" (Château of Jehay, Liège, Belgium)
2006 Tecomah "Les Environnementales, With and In the Nature"
The Biennial of Contemporary Art (School of Environment and of Life, Jouy-en-Josas, France)
2004 Art Omi International Artist Colony, residency program (New York, U.S.A.)
1999 "Progetto...in Cubo" - A contemporary art multivision projection of 480 artists from all over the world - (Firenze, Italy)
1999 Salon de la Jeune Peinture (Espace Quai Branly, Paris, Fr.)
1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985   Salon de la Jeune Peinture (Grand Palais, Paris, Fr.)
1998 Christie's "Asian Avant-Garde", Catalogue: Asian Avant-Garde (London, U.K.)
1997 Petit-Leez Castle (Grand-Leez, Belgium)
1997, 1996, 1995, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987 -  Salon de Mai (Grand Palais, Paris, Fr.)
1994  BWA National Gallery AWANGARDA "4 Sculptors", Catalogue: 4 Sculptors (Wroclaw, Poland)
1991, 1990, 1988, 1987, 1985 Salon des Grands et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui (Grand Palais, Paris, Fr.)
1990, 1987, 1985   Salon de Montrouge (Montrouge, Fr.)
1990  International Mérignac Biennale (Mérignac, Fr.)
1988 Art Jonction International (Nice, Fr.)
1988, 1986 Salon Comparaisons (Grand Palais, Paris, Fr.)
1986 Yamanashi Prefectorial Museum "International Exhibition of Small Works" (Yamanashi, Japan)
1985 Modern Art Museum / Château Musée "The 17th International Painting Festival",
Catalogue: The 17th International Painting Festival (Cagne-sur-Mer, Fr.)
1984  Salon d'Automne (Grand Palais, Paris, Fr.)
1983  Tokyo Prefectorial Museum "The 16th Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Mainichi-Shinbun" (Tokyo, Japan)

Radio & Television (Videos) Reports

2006, 9 juin - Ile-de-France 12/13 "Les Environnementale in Jouy-en-Josas": France 3 Television (Ile-de-France, France)
2006, 12 juin - "Chronicle of Frédérick Gersal" : France Info radio (France)
2005 October - Divertimento, RTV REGIONAL TELEVISION (Liège, Belgium)
2003 May - Local News Festival in Montpellier : FRANCE 3 TELEVISION (Montpellier, France)
1997 May-June - Local News: FRANCE 3 TELEVISION (Mont de Marsan, France)
(Exhibition "Mont de Marsan Sculptures" 7 Artists in residence)
1997 May - Local News: RADIO-FRANCE, EUROPE 2, RADIO MDM (Mont de Marsan, France)
(Exhibition "Mont de Marsan Sculptures" 7 Artists in residence)
1994 March - Cultural News, WROCLAW TELEVISION (Wroclaw, Poland)
(Exhibition "4 sculptors at the BWA National Gallery" in Wroclaw)
1992 November - Kunstzaak / Art Affairs, BRT FLEMISH TELEVISION (Belgium)
(Solo Show at the Gallery Pascal Polar, Brussels, Belgium)
1991 May - Local News, LOCAL TELEVISION (Annecy, Fr.)
(Solo Show at the Gallery Losserand, Annecy)
1991 April - The World of Beauty "Traces of Dialogues - Installations of Shigeko HIRAKAWA",
NIPPON TELEVISION NETWORK CORPORATION (NTV),
Director: Mutsuo KATO, 45 minute-program, Broadcasted in Japan on April 20th, 1991.
(Solo Show at the Gallery Espace Archidé, Paris, Fr.)

Prizes and Grants

2006-2007 Grant holder of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, NY, U.S.A.
2004 June-July - Art Omi International Artist Colony, Residency Program (New York, U.S.A.)
2003 fall-winter - Grant holder of the Cultural Affairs Department (Bunka-Cho) of
the Japanese Government for a three-month stay in New York City, U.S.A.
1992 - Obtains the Prize of Realization. Competition "Sculptors in the City: Homage to Henri Gaudier-Brzeska"
with the participation of the French Ministry of Culture (St-Jean-de-Braye, Fr).
1989 - Obtains the First Adam Prize. Salon de la Jeune Peinture (Grand-Palais, Paris, Fr).
1985 - Obtains a unanimously Special Mention of Honorthe Jury, "The 17th International Painting Festival"
Modern Art Museum/ Château-Musée (Cagnes-sur-Mer, Fr).
1983-1986 - Three-year scholarship holder of the French Government  

Public Orders

2003 Outdoor site specific installation "Connected Air & Domesticated Water", commissioned by the Departmental Council of the Hérault for the Grounds of the Château d'O for Festival in May, Pamphlet: Connected Air & Demesticated Water 2003
2001 "Red Ellipse" artwork: purchased by Josai International University (Chiba, Japon)
1999 "Five Red Spheres" : collection of the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo
Catalogue: Five Red Spheres (Komaba, Tokyo, Japan)
1992 "Flotte Ile" sculptures: 1% Architecture. Realisation of a monument on the theme of ARTS & HIGH SCHOOLS,

organized by the Conseil Régional d'Ile de France. Van Gogh High School (Aubergenville, Fr.)
Catalogue: Le 1% Artistique en région Ile-de-France 1951-1993 (The 1% Artworks in the Ile-de-France Region 1951-1993)

Bibliography

2006 summer, "Water - Art and Water" area magazine No.12 (Berthe Génévrier, France)
2006, juin - "Land Art" FRENCH NEWS No. 205  (Julie Hourim France)
2006, mai - "Land Art - Les Environnementales, version 2006 - Coup de coeur" TELERAMA No.2941, Télérama  Sortir  (B.P.)
2005, April 22 - Exhibition "Artworks of the Japanese artist, Shigeko Hirakawa at Energy Science Center of Lewarde -
Art to Marry Tradition to Cotemporaneity", LA VOIX DU NORD daily paper (Jean-François Guybert)
2003, April 28 - Montpellier Culture, L'HERAULT DU JOUR daily paper (Catherine Vingtrinier)
2003, May 8, 9, 12  - "Dans les allées d'O, sur les chemins de l'imaginaire" Montpellier Culture,
L'HERAULT DU JOUR daily paper (Catherine Vingtrinier)
2003, May 10  - "Rondes d'enfants d'O" Montpellier Spectacles, MIDI LIBRE daily paper (Marie-Christine Harant)
2002 December - A letter to Sculptors, MICHITANI Publishing (Tadayasu SAKAI, Japan)
2001 December - "Shigeko HIRAKAWA's solo show in the Maison des Arts"
LA FRANCE monthly, Hakusuisha (Shigeko HIRAKAWA, Tokyo, Japan)
2001 December - "Shigeko HIRAKAWA, de 'dé-peindre à colorer l'eau (from anti-painting to colouring water)"
CITY BULLETIN (Shigeko HIRAKAWA, Choisy-le-Roi, Fr.)
2001 October - "Les Essentiels - Esprits d'Eau (The Essentials - Water Spirits)"
LA VIE monthly (Olivier DELAVALLADE, Fr.)
2001 September - "Culture / Histoire d'Eau - expo Shigeko HIRAKAWA (Culture, Water story - Solo Show of Shigeko HIRAKAWA) "
CITY BULLETIN (Renée LESTOQUOY, Malakoff, Fr.)
2001 September - "Alchimie de l'eau (Water Alchemy)"
CITY BULLETIN (Carole TESTA, Choisy-le-Roi, Fr.)
2001 July - "Les artistes japonais en France à partie 1945 (Japanes artists in France after 1945) "
Doctoral thesis (Valérie DOUNIAUX, Fr.)
2001 July - "Festival de l'eau (Festival of Water)"
LA FRANCE monthly, Hakusuisha (Shigeko HIRAKAWA, Tokyo, Japon)
1998 May - "World News, Shigeko Hirakawa's show" NIKKEI ART (Yoshio YOSHIMURA, Japan)
1998 January, February, March - "Shigeko Hirakawa's Solo Show" Choisy Informations
CITY BULLETIN (Choisy-le-Roi, Fr.)
1997 September - "World News, Mont-de-Marsan Sculptures"
NIKKEI ART monthly art magazine (Yoshio YOSHIMURA, Japan)
1995 July - "Ausstellungen Galerien - Shigeko Hirakawa"
BADISCHE ZEITUNG daily paper no.149 Kur 01 (Freiburg, Germany)
1993 - "New Age, New Power in France"
ART VISION (Sho FUKUMOTO, Japan)
1993 - "Art Work that Charms You..., Shigeko HIRAKAWA"
AN AN weekly (Yumi IDA, Japan)
1992 November - "Cloth and Wood, HIRAKAWA "
LA LIBRE BELGIQUE daily paper, Culture no.156 (Roger-Pierre Turine, Brussels, Belgium)
1992 October - "Art Expo", THE NEW ART GUIDE (Belgium)
1992 May - "Six Sculptors in the City, Homage to Henry Gaudier-Brzeska"
LA REPUBLIQUE DU CENTRE daily paper (Fr.)
1991 July - "3 Japanese Artists in the Contemporary Art Center of Rouen"
PARIS-NORMANDIE daily paper (Fr.)
1991 - Invitation to Japanese Culture, LA DECOUVERTE Publishing (Jean-François SABOURET, Fr.)
1991 September - "Shigeko HIRAKAWA, Gallery Jacques Losserand; Annecy"
ART PRESS no.161 (Stani CHAINE, Fr.)
1991 June - "Shigeko HIRAKAWA, Gallery Jacques Losserand"
LYON POCHE (Stani CHAINE, Annecy, Fr.)
1991 April - "Exhibitions in Paris, Shigeko HIRAKAWA "
BIJUTSU NO MADO, Mali-Antoin FUNAKOSHI, Japan)
1990 June - "Shigeko HIRAKAWA, Gallery Athisma"
LE TOUT LYON (René DEROUDILLE, Fr.)
1990 March - "Galerie Streifzug", AZ NURNBERG (Germany)
1990 - "Art & Culture, the verb 'create' is conjugated in the feminine singular "
LA VOIX DU NORD daily paper (Jean-Pierre HUART, Fr.)
1989 - "Shigeko HIRAKAWA "
FIGARO JAPON (Makoto MURATA, Japan)
1989 - "News from abroad "
BT Bijutsu-Techo monthly (Aomi OKABE, Japan)
1989 August - "3 Japanese Artists"
MITTILUNGEN DES INSTITUTS FUR MODERNE KUNST, NURNBERG (Germany)
1989 February - "People, Yesterday and Today, the Adam Prize: Shigeko HIRAKAWA"
ASAHI SHINBUN daily paper (Tei SHIMIZU, Japan)
1988 February - "Shigeko HIRAKAWA / Gallery Athisma "
LYON POCHE (Stani CHAINE, Lyon, Fr.)
1988 February - "Shigeko HIRAKAWA / Metamorphosis"
LE TOUT LYON (René DEROUDILLE, Lyon, Fr.)
1987 June - "Lyon - Japan"
LE TOUT LYON (René DEROUDILLE, Lyon, Fr.)
1985 - "The 17th International Painting Festival in Cagnes-sur-mer"
NICE MATIN daily paper (Fr.)

Miscellaneous

2004 November - Gives a lecture on the theme of  "Environmental Art and Gardens" for the 19th cultural week on the theme of  "Gardens", Ecole supérieure Estienne des arts et industries graphiques (Paris)
2004,2003,2002, 2001, 2000,1999 - Writes essays and articles for the Japanese monthly magazine LA FRANCE
2002,1995 - Gives lectures at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Waseda University and Meiji University.
1994 - Member of the Jury awarding the National Superior Diploma of Artistic Expression, (Brest Fine Arts University, Fr.).
1990, 1989, 1988, 1987 - Member of the Selection Committee of the Salon de la Jeune Peinture.
1987 - Obtains artist's status in France.

Exhibitions in Virtual Galleries

1999 April - "Artist of the month". Artnet Gallery (Sweden)

Collections

Paris (Fr) - Cochin Hospital, private collections
Lyon (Fr) - Centre d'Art Actuel, Gallery Athisma, private collections
Annecy (Fr) - Gallery Jacques Losserand, private collections
Tokyo (Japan) - University of Tokyo, Shiseido Co., Gallery Moris, Gallery Lunami, private collections
Chiba (Japon) - Josai International University, private collections
Osaka (Japan) - Agok Co., Agok Factory, etc.