HIROFUMI ISOYA

Find Your Verb, Koumi-machi Kougen Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan, 2022[1]
Find Your Verb, Koumi-machi Kougen Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan, 2022[2]

Find Your Verb, Koumi-machi Kougen Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan, 2022

Find Your Verb, Koumi-machi Kougen Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan, 2022[3]
Find Your Verb, Koumi-machi Kougen Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan, 2022[4]

Find Your Verb, Koumi-machi Kougen Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan, 2022

Flowers and Bees, Translucent Archive, 2018 honey, fishing light, glass bottle

Flowers and Bees, Translucent Archive, 2018
honey, fishing light, glass bottle

Palilalia and Heat, 2021 LED light, chains, refined beeswax, moth scales

Palilalia and Heat, 2021
LED light, chains, refined beeswax, moth scales

12 hours (installation view), 2005

12 hours (installation view), 2005

12 hours, 2005 resin, fly

12 hours, 2005
resin, fly

Find Your Verb, Koumi-machi Kougen Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan, 2022 From left: Activation 04, Arc, Parallax Gesture

Find Your Verb, Koumi-machi Kougen Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan, 2022
From left: Activation 04, Arc, Parallax Gesture

Activation 04, 2022 ancient earthenware fragments from 3500-2500 BCE, clay, approximately 25 cm in diameter

Activation 04, 2022
ancient earthenware fragments from 3500-2500 BCE,
clay, approximately 25 cm in diameter

Activation 04 (installation view), 2022

Activation 04 (installation view), 2022

Diffused Reflection of Reading, 2008 mirror, resin dimensions variable

Diffused Reflection of Reading, 2008
mirror, resin
dimensions variable

Diffused Reflection of Reading (installation view), 2008

Diffused Reflection of Reading (installation view), 2008

Matsumoto Architecture + Art Festival, Matsumoto City, Nagano, Japan, 2022

Matsumoto Architecture + Art Festival, Matsumoto City, Nagano, Japan, 2022

Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA, 2021

Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue
SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA, 2021

Lag 10, 2019 framed pigment print, wood, metal 86 × 140 × 19.5 cm

Lag 10, 2019
framed pigment print, wood, metal
86 × 140 × 19.5 cm

L’image et son double Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, 2021

L’image et son double
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, 2021

Left: Lag 5, 2014 Right: Lag 6, 2014 framed pigment print, wood, metal 86 × 83 × 16 cm (each)

Left: Lag 5, 2014 Right: Lag 6, 2014
framed pigment print, wood, metal
86 × 83 × 16 cm (each)

Go, go, go, said the bird: humankind cannot bear very much reality SCAI PIRAMIDE, Tokyo, 2021

Go, go, go, said the bird: humankind cannot bear
very much reality
SCAI PIRAMIDE, Tokyo, 2021

Palilalia and Heat, 2021 LED light, chains, refined beeswax, moth scales 62 × 82.5 × 5 cm

Palilalia and Heat, 2021
LED light, chains, refined beeswax, moth scales
62 × 82.5 × 5 cm

From left: Activation 03, 01, 02, 2021 ancient earthenware fragments from 3500-2500 BCE, clay, approximately 25 cm in diameter (each)

From left: Activation 03, 01, 02, 2021
ancient earthenware fragments from 3500-2500 BCE,
clay, approximately 25 cm in diameter (each)

Activation (detail), 2021

Activation (detail), 2021

Interaction: Souls in Synchronicity Toyama Glass Art Museum, Toyama, 2020

Interaction: Souls in Synchronicity
Toyama Glass Art Museum, Toyama, 2020

Flowers and Bees, Translucent Archive, 2018 honey, fishing light, glass bottle

Flowers and Bees, Translucent Archive, 2018
honey, fishing light, glass bottle

Syncopation: Contemporary encounters with the Modern Masters Pola Art Museum, Kanagawa, 2019

Syncopation: Contemporary encounters with the Modern Masters
Pola Art Museum, Kanagawa, 2019

Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2019

Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2019

Flowers and Bees, Translucent Archive, 2018 honey, fishing light, glass bottle 54 × 36 × 36 cm

Flowers and Bees, Translucent Archive, 2018
honey, fishing light, glass bottle
54 × 36 × 36 cm

Left: Mother’s Child, Grandmother’s Grandchild, 2019 brass chain, a necklace of artist’s mother, a necklace and a ring of artist’s grandmother dimensions variable

Left: Mother’s Child, Grandmother’s Grandchild, 2019
brass chain, a necklace of artist’s mother, a necklace and a ring of artist’s grandmother
dimensions variable

Mother’s Child, Grandmother’s Grandchild (detail), 2019

Mother’s Child, Grandmother’s Grandchild (detail), 2019

Parallax Gesture (Blue, Red), 2016 framed Lambda print, blue mattress, red sedimentary rock 115 × 190 × 95 cm

Parallax Gesture (Blue, Red), 2016
framed Lambda print, blue mattress, red sedimentary rock
115 × 190 × 95 cm

Lag 4, 2014 framed pigment print, wood, metal 72 × 120 × 16 cm

Lag 4, 2014
framed pigment print, wood, metal
72 × 120 × 16 cm

Les Rencontres d'Arles: The Specter of Surrealism, An Exhibition Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Centre Pompidou installation view at Atelier des Forges, Arles, France, 2017[1]
Les Rencontres d'Arles: The Specter of Surrealism, An Exhibition Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Centre Pompidou installation view at Atelier des Forges, Arles, France, 2017[2]

Les Rencontres d'Arles: The Specter of Surrealism, An Exhibition Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Centre Pompidou
installation view at Atelier des Forges, Arles, France, 2017

Bananas and Postcards (detail), 2014 postcard, spinning rack 155 × 45 × 45 cm

Bananas and Postcards (detail), 2014
postcard, spinning rack
155 × 45 × 45 cm

Bananas and Postcards, 2014 postcard, spinning rack 155 × 45 × 45 cm

Bananas and Postcards, 2014
postcard, spinning rack
155 × 45 × 45 cm

Onions and Postcards (detail), 2015 postcard, spinning rack, pedestal 132 × 38.5 × 38.5 cm

Onions and Postcards (detail), 2015
postcard, spinning rack, pedestal
132 × 38.5 × 38.5 cm

Left: Onions and Postcards, 2015 postcard, spinning rack, pedestal 132 × 38.5 × 38.5 cm Right: Parallax Gesture (Red, Green), 2015 framed Lambda print, red mattress, green stone 112 × 197 × 89 cm

Left: Onions and Postcards, 2015
postcard, spinning rack, pedestal
132 × 38.5 × 38.5 cm

Right: Parallax Gesture (Red, Green), 2015
framed Lambda print, red mattress, green stone
112 × 197 × 89 cm

12 hours, 2005 resin, fly 10 × 7 × 5 cm

12 hours, 2005
resin, fly
10 × 7 × 5 cm

12 hours, 2005 installation view at Troedsson Villa, Tochigi

12 hours, 2005
installation view at Troedsson Villa, Tochigi

Arc, 2014 C-print, painted frame 35.3 × 25.3 × 3 cm Capturing a encounter between a door and snow on a winter morning.

Arc, 2014
C-print, painted frame
35.3 × 25.3 × 3 cm

Capturing a encounter between a
door and snow on a winter morning.

Lag 1, 2014 framed pigment print, wood, metal 103 × 99.6 × 19.2 cm

Lag 1, 2014
framed pigment print, wood, metal
103 × 99.6 × 19.2 cm

Lag 3, 2014 framed pigment print, wood, metal 103 × 99.6 × 19.2 cm

Lag 3, 2014
framed pigment print, wood, metal
103 × 99.6 × 19.2 cm

Southward (06:38:53), 2013 wall drawing with pen dimensions variable installation view at RM, Auckland

Southward (06:38:53), 2013
wall drawing with pen
dimensions variable

installation view at RM, Auckland

Raising a Gap, 2005–2012 C-print, painted frame 25.3 × 35.3 × 3 cm Capturing a strawberry within a plastic capsule, which I had placed on the blossoming flower. It grew until there was no longer any space inside the capsule.

Raising a Gap, 2005–2012
C-print, painted frame
25.3 × 35.3 × 3 cm

Capturing a strawberry within a plastic capsule, which
I had placed on the blossoming flower. It grew until
there was no longer any space inside the capsule.

Land, 2007 scanned photocopy and Lambda print, Dutch navy trainers which artist wore for 1000 days, paint image size 177.5 (artist’s life size) × 123 × 3.4 cm

Land, 2007
scanned photocopy and Lambda print, Dutch navy trainers which artist wore for 1000 days, paint
image size 177.5 (artist’s life size) × 123 × 3.4 cm

Multimodernism, 2011 C-print, painted frame 35.3 × 21.7 × 3 cm Showing a traditional Japanese table, which appears to be floating as if magic, supported by rope.

Multimodernism, 2011
C-print, painted frame
35.3 × 21.7 × 3 cm

Showing a traditional Japanese table,
which appears to be floating as if
magic, supported by rope.

The End of an Object, 2012 C-print, painted frame 35.3 × 25.3 × 3 cm Showing three Coke bottles precariously placed at the end of a table, the remaining liquid in the bottles swaying at various angles.

The End of an Object, 2012
C-print, painted frame
35.3 × 25.3 × 3 cm

Showing three Coke bottles precariously
placed at the end of a table, the remaining
liquid in the bottles swaying at various angles.

Compass (Los Angels), 2007–2012 C-print, painted frame 35.3 × 26.1 × 3 cm It captures an image of a circle on the ground, which I had drawn with my urine at Shinjuku, Tokyo and Los Angels.

Compass (Los Angels), 2007–2012
C-print, painted frame
35.3 × 26.1 × 3 cm

It captures an image of a circle on the ground, which I had drawn with my urine
at Shinjuku, Tokyo and Los Angels.

Compass (Shinjuku), 2007–2012 C-print, painted frame 26.1 × 35.3 × 3 cm

Compass (Shinjuku), 2007–2012
C-print, painted frame
26.1 × 35.3 × 3 cm

Palilalia, 2013 light fittings, nocturnal flying insects, chains, paint 190 × 125 × 35 cm

Palilalia, 2013
light fittings, nocturnal flying
insects, chains, paint
190 × 125 × 35 cm

Counting the Event, 2012 framed C-prints, resin, insects dimensions variable installation view at AOYAMA|MEGURO, Tokyo

Counting the Event, 2012
framed C-prints, resin, insects
dimensions variable

installation view at AOYAMA|MEGURO, Tokyo

Points of My Arm, 2005–2012 C-print, painted frame 26.8 × 35.3 × 3 cm Showing a geometric shape drawn by lines connecting 5 spots of my arm, which a friend had drawn using an architectural pen.

Points of My Arm, 2005–2012
C-print, painted frame
26.8 × 35.3 × 3 cm

Showing a geometric shape drawn by lines
connecting 5 spots of my arm, which a friend
had drawn using an architectural pen.

Diffused Reflection of Reading, 2008 mirror, resin dimensions variable

Diffused Reflection of Reading, 2008
mirror, resin
dimensions variable

Couple, 2004–2011 C-print, painted frame 30.2 × 23.6 × 2.5 cm

Couple, 2004–2011
C-print, painted frame
30.2 × 23.6 × 2.5 cm

Benjamin Half a World Away, 2004 benjamin, resin 100 × 50 × 50 cm

Benjamin Half a World Away, 2004
benjamin, resin
100 × 50 × 50 cm

CVENJP

HIROFUMI ISOYA磯谷 博史

1978Born in Tokyo, Japan

2003BA in Architecture, Tokyo University of the Arts

2005MFA in Inter Media Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts

2011Associate Research Programme in Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London

Currently works and lives in Tokyo, Japan

SOLO EXHIBITION (SELECTION)

2022TBD, Sony Park Mini, Tokyo, Japan

2022Swaying Colour, Daikokuya, Tochigi, Japan

2022Find Your Verb, Koumi-machi Kougen Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan

2022Container for Images, Isetan Salone, Tokyo, Japan

2021Go, go, go, said the bird: humankind cannot bear very much reality, SCAI PIRAMIDE, Tokyo, Japan

20205 impressions, CAGE Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2019With Hidden Noises, Daikokuya, Tochigi, Japan

2018Figured in the drift of things, Aoyama|Meguro, Tokyo, Japan

2016Raising a Gap, Daikokuya, Tochigi, Japan

2015Actual Measurement, CHIKA ECODA, Tokyo, Japan

2014Lag, Aoyama|Meguro, Tokyo, Japan

2014Southward, NADiff, Tokyo, Japan

2014Lag, LISTE, Basel, Switzerland

2012Counting The Event, Aoyama|Meguro, Tokyo, Japan

2007Once Night Falls, Diesel Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, curated by Hiromi Kitazawa (Nanjo and Associates)

2007Nighthopper, Mizuma Action, Tokyo, Japan

2004Private Journal, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2022TBD, Kagurazaka Apartment, Tokyo, Japan

2022TBD, Ao-Hata Bookstore, Fukuoka, Japan

2022Platform for Shared Praxis, CAVES, Melbourne, Australia

2022Matsumoto Architecture + Art Festival, Matsumoto City, Nagano, Japan

2021Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA

2021Faces, SCAI PIRAMIDE, Tokyo, Japan

2021L’ image et son double, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

2021The Past in Motion, Kotaro Nukaga, Tokyo, Japan

2020Interaction, Toyama Glass Art Museum, Toyama, Japan

2020Le Pari(S), La Semaine De L'art, Bendana|Pinel, Paris, France

2020Together We Stand, Bendana|Pinel, Paris, France

2019Memories in Movement, Place Mak Lazer, Soeul, Korea

2019Syncopation: Contemporary encounters with the Modern Masters, Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan

2019Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2018Transitional, An Exhibition curated by the Mori Art Museum, Asia Now, Paris, France

2018Gray Zone, Oldhaus, Tokyo, Japan

2017Gray Zone, Gallery Trax, Yamanashi, Japan

2017Les Rencontres d'Arles: The Specter of Surrealism, An Exhibition Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Centre Pompidou,
Atelier des Forges, Arles, France, curated by Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska (Centre Georges Pompidou)

2017Primal Reverberation, YKG, Tokyo, Japan, curated by Toshiharu Suzuki (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art)

2017Sylvanian Families Biennial 2017, XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan

2016Atami Art Expo, EOMO, Shizuoka , Japan

2016Politics of Space, statements, Tokyo, Japan

2016Troedsson Villa Mountain School 2016, Troedsson Villa, Tochigi / Statements, Tokyo, Japan

2016Tokyo, Time Machine, and then…, YKG, Tokyo, Japan, curated by Hikotaro Kanehira

2016Imprisoned, Jailbreak, Imprisoned, Jailbreak, Capsule, Tokyo, Japan

2016Interlaced Surroundings, Rodriguez Gallery, Poznan, Poland

2015Contemporary tales from the province III, Kochi, Japan

2015Sequence, Hagiso, Tokyo, Japan

2015Wunderkammer, Galerija FO.VI, Ptuj, Slovenia

2014The Beach That Never Was, ICAS, Singapore

2014Duality of Existence, Friedman Benda, New York, United States

2014Academy Now, Art Defender, Bologna, Italy

2013Personal Structures, collateral exhibition of the 55th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy

2013Identity, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, curated by Reiko Tsubaki (Mori Art Museum)

2013Third Life, Hagiso, Tokyo, Japan

2013Tacit Material, RM Gallery and Projects, Auckland, New Zealand

2013Academy Now, Maple Street Space, London, United Kingdom

2012Cosmos as a Metaphor, Taka Ishii Gallery / Anteroom, Kyoto, Japan

2011The Face of The Shape, La Scatola Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2011Art and Product, Ai Kowada Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2011Villa Tokyo, Kyobashi 2 Chome Area, Tokyo, Japan, organized by Raster Gallery

2011Goldsmiths Show, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom

2010Still in LLove, Daikanyama i studio, Tokyo, Japan

2008Drop Box, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan

2008Off the Rail, Mizuma and One Gallery, Beijing, China

2007Keren, Museum of Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan

2005Nishiogi Biennale, Makoto Aida's house, Tokyo, Japan, curated by Makoto Aida

200510th Anniversary Exhibition, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2005Project the Projectors, Former Sakamoto Elementry School, Tokyo, Japan

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

2019 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, United States

2015Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

2003Museum of Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan

OTHERS

2016-2017Project space “statements” Co-director