Hiroshi Sugito was born in 1970 in Aichi prefecture, Japan. He graduated from the Department of Japanese Painting, Faculty of Arts, Aichi Prefectural College of Arts in 1992. He is currently Professor of the Department of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. He has exhibited extensively both in Japan and internationally since the 1990s.
His major solo exhibitions include “FOCUS” (Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA, 2006), “prime and foundation” (Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan, 2015), “frame and refrain” (Musée Bernard Buffet, Shizuoka, Japan, 2015), ”particles and release” (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan, 2016), and “Hiroshi Sugito module or lacuna” (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 2017). He has also held eight solo exhibitions at Mark Foxx Gallery in Los Angeles.
His Significant group exhibitions include “Winter Garden:The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art” (curated by Midori Matsui, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, 2009; traveled to Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Cologne, Germany, 2009 / The Japan Foundation, Tronto, Tronto, Canada, 2010 / Galeri’a Arnold Belkin, Museo Universitario del Chopo、Mexico City, Mexico, 2011), “Garden of painting – Japanese Art of the 00s” (The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, 2010), and “Logical Emotion – Contemporary Art from Japan” (Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland, 2014; traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK, Krakow, Poland, 2015 / Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle (Saale), Halle, Germany, 2015) among many others.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 | “apples and lemon” Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyobashi, Tokyo, Japan |
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2023 | "Remainder” Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico |
2022 | “the garden” NonakaHill, Los Angeles, CA “Hiroshi Sugito: Shifting Atmospheres” Semiose, Paris, France |
2020 | “Hiroshi Sugito: apples and triangles” Gana Art, Seoul, Korea |
2019 | “cut and restrain” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2017 | “Hiroshi Sugito module or lacuna” Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan “frontispiece and end leaf“ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2016 | “crimp and clamp” KENJI TAKI GALLERY, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan “particles and release” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan |
2015 | “frame and refrain” Musée Bernard Buffet, Shizuoka, Japan “prime and foundation” The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan |
2014 | Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Hiroshi Sugito - pit -” KENJI TAKI GALLERY, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan |
2013 | “Crazy for Painting vol.9 Masato KOBAYASHI + Hiroshi SUGITO” gallery αM, Tokyo, Japan |
2012 | “the orange tree” Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan |
2011 | “needle and thread” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “paintings and sketches” Japan Creative Centre (JCC), Singapore |
2009 | Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA |
2008 | “Triple Mountain” Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil Galleri Sjur Nedreaas, Bergen, Norway Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan |
2007 | “Passage to the Sky” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “always rain” with Rosilene Luduvico, Park Haus, Dusseldorf, Germany “under the cloud” Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY |
2006 | “April Song” The Sculpture Garden Museum VANGI MUSEO, Shizuoka, Japan “FOCUS” Modern Art Musuem of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland |
2005 | “BRIDGE” Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Aiichi, Japan Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA “1996 - 2000” Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland |
2004 | “the bird song” Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany Galeria Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil “Over the Rainbow : Yoshitomo Nara and Hiroshi Sugito” [traveled in Germany: Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich/ K21, Dusseldorf] “Somewhere” Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich, Germany |
2003 | Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY west gallery: Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA “under the shadow” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2002 | “voyager” Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA “ranger” Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan |
2001 | Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY “in the shadow” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2000 | “Hiding in the House” Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA |
1999 | London Projects, London, UK Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany Galeria Camargo Vilaca, San Paulo, Brazil |
1998 | Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan The Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo Japan Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY |
1997 | Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA |
1996 | Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Marc Foxx, Santa Monica, CA |
1993 | Stegosaurus Studio, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan |
1992 | Stegosaurus Studio, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan |
1991 | Love Collection Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan |
Group Exhibitions
2024 | “Ryushi Kawabata + Ryutaro Takahashi Collection: May It Be Your Tale” Ryushi Memorial Museum, Tokyo, Japan “How Did You Come into the World?” Hirosaki Museum Contemporary Art, Aomori, Japan “Let's See” ArtSpace@HeluTrans, Singapore “Studio Visits” Aranya Art Center, Beidaihe, China “Masterpieces Collection and Katsura Funakoshi Selection” The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan “an arena” BARBATI GALLERY, Venezia, Italy “Does the Future Sleep Here?” The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan "The TAD Collection IV” Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art & Design, Toyama, Japan “Perfect Camouflage” Watarium Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
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2023 | “Tsubaki-kai 8: This New World ‘Just/Here/Now’ ” Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Taguchi Art Collection: Your Compass in the “Incredible” Contemporary Art World” Nariwa Museum, Okayama, Japan “Atsuhiko Misawa ANIMALS/Multi-dimensions" Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan “BLUE WIND” HIGH ART ARLES, Arles, France |
2022 | “Tsubaki-kai 8: This New World 2nd SEASON 'QUEST'” Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Tokyo University of the Arts Japanese Painting Exhibition” Chinretsukan Gallery 1F, 2F, Masaki Memorial Gallery 2F (The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts), Tokyo, Japan “A Minor Constellation” Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Accumulations” AOYAMA|MEGURO, Tokyo, Japan “Natural Function” Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan “Flower of Life” Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan “Myth and Dreams” Arkas Art Center, Izmir, Turkey |
2021 | “The Eighth Tsubaki-kai” Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “TOKYO VOCA Ⅱ” The first floor lobby of Dai-ichi Life Hibiya Head Office, Tokyo, Japan |
2020 | “Shikansuiyo – Art of the One Hundred Year Forest” Meiji Jingu Forest Festival of Art, Meiji Shrine Museum, Tokyo “Overlapping Circles: 5 Artists Collaborate with the Collection” The Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan “The Sense of Wonder into another garden” Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan “The Sentimental Organization of the World” Galerie Crèvecœur, Paris, France “TOKYO VOCA” The first floor lobby of Dai-ichi Life Hibiya Head Office, Tokyo, Japan |
2019 | “Globe as a Palette; Contemporary Art from The Taguchi Art Collection” Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art/ Kushiro Art Museum/ Hakodate Museum of Art/ Sapporo Art Museum, Hokkaido, Japan “Star Guided Art Tour” Iwami Art Museum, Masuda, Shimane, Japan “Weavers of Worlds -A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern/ Contemporary Art” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan “beyond the reasons” KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo, Japan “Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan “Tomio Koyama Gallery: Works from the Gallery Artists and the Collection 4” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2018 | “Misawa Atuhiko ANIMALS IN TOYAMA” Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art & Design, Japan “Misawa Atuhiko ANIMALS IN YOKOSUKA” Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan “Treasure box of Contemporary Art” Oita Prefectural Art Museum, Japan |
2017 | “MAKIKO KUDO & HIROSHI SUGITO” Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Special Project Commemorating the 130th Anniversary of Tokyo University of the Arts” The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan “Atsuhiko Misawa’s Animal House: House of Enigmas” The Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan “Japanorama. New vision on art since 1970” Centre Pompidou-Metz, France “THE ART SHOW” The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan “Group Exhibtion” Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan “Group Exhibtion” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2016 | Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Aichi “Masato Kobayashi, Takeshi Makishima, Hiroshi Sugito TABLE OF THREE” ShugoArts weekend gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2015 | “Taguchi Hiroshi Art Collection A Walk around the Contemporary Art World after Paradigm Shift” The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan “MOT Collection Part1: Postwar Art in Close-up” The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan |
2014 | “Group exhibition by Tomio Koyama Gallery” TOLOT/heuristic SHINONOME, Tokyo, Japan “Twentieth Anniversary Special MOT Collection Chronicle 1995-” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan “PIOON PROJECT” Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan “What is Real? Where is Real?” Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan “Logical Emotion –Contemporary Art from Japan” Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland [traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (MOCAK), Poland/ Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle (Saale), Halle, Germany, 2015] |
2013 | “Birds, Beast and Flowers” Galerie Zink, Berlin, Germany “Re:Quest Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970’s” Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea “Collection: on this planet” Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan “Education, education and education” Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts, Building 11 Zone, Okayama/ GALLERY HIRAMINE, Kagoshima, Japan “AICHI TRIENNALE 2013 Awakening -Where Are We Standing?- Earth, Memory and Resurrection” Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya City Art Museum and more…, Aichi, Japan “Die Tanzende Bilder -The Essence of Taguchi Art Collection” Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan “Imprisoned, Jailbreak” XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan |
2012 | “Die Sterne am Himmel über mir” Galerie Zink, Berlin, Germany “10th Anniversary Exhibition; To Wander a Garden” The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan “Masahiko Kuwahara, Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito” Tomio Koyama Gallery Singapore |
2011 | “Temporary Exhibition: Art in an Office” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan “CAFE in Mito 2011” Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan “Pathos and Small Narratives” Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea |
2010 | “Garden of painting -Japanese Art of the 00s” The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan “MOT Collection: Enter here -what do you see?” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan “Collection” Collection gallery2, Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Japan “Narrative Paintings” The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Japan |
2009 | “Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art” (curated by Midori Matsui) Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan [traveled to Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Cologne, Germany, 2009/ The Japan Foundation, Tronto, Canada, 2010/ Galeri’a Arnold Belkin, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico, 2011] “In the Little Playground -Hitsuda Nobuya and his surrouding students-” Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art/ Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan |
2008 | “Drawings -thinking hand” Gallery Yada,Nagoya, Japan “The 7th Gwangju Biennale” Biennale Hall, Gwangju Museum of Art, Korea “Time scape-another view of time” Aichi prefectual Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan “PARKHAUS” Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany |
2007 | “The Door into Summer” Art Tower Mito, Mito, Ibaraki, Japan Mindscape Museum, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan “Portrait Session” NADiff, Tokyo/ Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan “Silly Adult” Gelleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark “LET’S GO TO THE MUSEUM! HOW TO ENJOY THE MODERN ART, TOGETHER WITH DICK BRUNA” The Bernard Buffet Museum, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan “HOP, STAMP, HANGA! CHILD PRINT ART MUSEUM” Bernard Buffet Museum, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan |
2006 | Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA “Talking Pictures” Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany “MARCH” Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan “A to Z” Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan “Approaching Landscape” Galerie Michael Zink, Munich, Germany “10th Anniversary” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Everyday Life and Beyond” Musee Hamagushi Yozo: Yamasa Collection, Tokyo, Japan |
2005 | “paper” Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY “Japan Pop” Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland “Works on paper” Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany |
2004 | “The Japanese Experience ? Inevitable” Das museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria “Time of My Life: Art with Youthful Sprit” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan “Why not live for art?” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Yoshitomo Nara, Tam Ochiai, Hiroshi Sugito: New Prints” Space Force, Tokyo, Japan “REAL WORLD - THE DISSOLVING SPACE OF EXPERIENCE” Modern Art Oxford, UK “The Art Collection of Marunouchi Area” Tokyo Station Gallery, Japan |
2003 | “Opening Exhibition” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Antonio Carderara and Hiroshi Sugito” Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich, Germany “Interview with Painting” Fondazione bevilacqua la Masa, Venice, Italy “Japan Rising” Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL “Poetic Justice” The 8th International Istanbul biennial, Turkey “Big or Small!?” Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan |
2002 | “Emotional Site” Shokuryo Building, Tokyo, Japan Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY “The Japanese Experience -Inevitable” The Blickele Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany “Jap in the box” Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK “Connections” Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA |
2001 | Michael Zink, Munich, Germany “Ghost” Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy “Painting at the Edge of the World” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN “The big ld” James Cohen, New York, NY “Reflections of Earth” The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH |
2000 | “Kaleidoscope of time” Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui, Japan “Yume no Ato -Was rom Traum blieb” Haus am Waldsee, Berlin/ Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany “Scope” Kenji Taki Gallery, Aichi, Japan “Gendai” Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland |
1999 | “MOT Annual 1999 -Modest Radicalism” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan “Noontime Meditation” Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Arts, Japan “Survey of Japanese Paintings” Tokyo Station Gallery, Japan “Art is Fun 10: Angelic, Devilish, or Both” Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan |
1998 | “VOCA ’98”, Ueno Royal Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan “Hanging” [traveled to Galeria Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo/ Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro/ Fundacao Cultural do Distrito Federal, Brasilia, Brazil] Audiello Fine Arts, New York, NY “Innocent Minds” Space X & Forum Space, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, Japan |
1997 | Marc Foxx, Santa Monica, CA Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Alive & Well, new painting” Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY “The Best of the Season” Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT |
1996 | “Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair” Nagoya City Gallery, Nagoya, Japan “Kind of Blue” Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan |
1995 | Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan |
1994 | “Tonari-no-Kehai” Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, Japan |
Exhibition Design
2021 | "Omni-Sculptures ̶̶The Scene of Emergence" Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo, Japan |
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Public Collections
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Saatchi Collection, London
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
The Sculpture Garden Museum Vangi Museo, Shizuoka
Olbricht Collection, Essen
Japan Foundation
Ryutaro Takahashi Collection
The DAI-ICHI LIFE Insurance Company
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa
The Taguchi Art Collection
Toyota Art Collection
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi