Sawa Hiraki
Video Installation
Born 1977 in Ishikawa, Japan, lives and works in London
Education
2001-2003 MFA Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
1997-2000 BA(hons) Fine Art, University of East London
Contact: hiraki.sawa@gmail.com
About
Born in Ishikawa, Japan and currently based in London / Kanazawa. His practice combines images, 3D and 2D works, creating immersive space-time installations that reflect his unique worldview. Through the repetitive movement between personal and collective memory, he explores specific motifs that evoke a sense of universality, fragility, and nostalgia.
His works are held in the public collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, US; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AU; the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; and the Hayward Gallery, London, UK, among others.
Website: https://hirakisawa.co.uk/
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Souvenir IV (the work to be exhibited)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 Journeys in Places, Asia Society NYC, NY, US
2025 / home, Memorial Art Gallery University of Rochester, NY, US
2022 flown, Yu-un, Tokyo, Japan
2022 flown, Parafin, London, UK
2021 / home, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2021 absent, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME, US
2020 Memoria paralela, Museo Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
2020 absent, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 fragments, Vincom Centre for Contemporary Art, Hanoi, Vietnam
2018 elsewhere, Wilfred Israel Museum, Kibbutz Hazorea, Israel,
2018 Latent Image Revealed, KAAT Exhibition 2018, Kanagawa Arts Theater, Yokohama, Japan
2014 Under the box beyond the bounds, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada
2014 Under the box beyond the bounds, Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Lenticular, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK
2013 Souvenir, Église Saint-Philibert de Dijon, Dijon, France
2012 Whirl, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
2012 Lineament, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2010 Hiraki Sawa: Carrousel, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie/Musée de Temps, Besançon, France
2008 Hiraki Sawa, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, US
2006 Hiraki Sawa – Six Good Reasons To Stay At Home, National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2005 Hiraki Sawa, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Selected International Art Biennial / Triennial
2025 Taipei Biennial 2025, Whispers on the Horizon, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2024 Taipower Arts Festival 2024, Sleepless in Stone, Ruifang, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2023 Oku Noto Triennnale 2023, Suzu, Japan
2021 Oku Noto Triennnale 2020+, Suzu, Japan
2019 The Art of Transposition, Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternate Visions, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Reborn Art Festival 2017, Ishinomaku, Japan
2013 The 12th Biennale de Lyon, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
2011 2011 Chengdu Biennare; Pure Views, Chengdu, China
2009 The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT6), Brisbane, Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Dreamhome (Stories of Art and Shelter), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2022 I love Art 16 VISION, WATARI-UM museum, Tokyo, Japan
2020 Noire Lumière, How Museum, Shanghai, China
2020 Overlapping Circles 5 Artists Collaborate with the Collection, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
