Hiroshi Sugito

Hiroshi Sugito is recognized as one of the most important artists in Japanese contemporary art. Such as three-dimensional works and paintings rendered in fresh colors that feature motifs of dots, lines, circles, triangles and other forms and objects which are at once figurative and abstract, Sugito’s art, which is unbound by established concepts, has received high acclaim both in Japan and abroad.

Sugito’s approach to production is particularly unique in that it involves interpreting the exhibition space through his five senses and physicality. By means of meticulous research, processes of trial-and-error, and time, he continues to create a freely extensible artistic universe in which the works and the spaces they inhabit act in concert and transform one another.

Hiroshi Sugito was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, and spent his childhood in New York. After graduating from the Department of Japanese Painting, Faculty of Arts, Aichi Prefectural College in 1992, he spent several years living in the mountains cutting trees and cultivating fields before commencing his career as an artist in 1996. He has participated in numerous exhibitions in Japan and overseas, and has presented a series of solo museum exhibitions at the Miyagi Museum of Art and Bernard Buffet Museum, Shizuoka in 2015, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aich in 2016 and Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in 2017. He received the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award for Fine Arts in 2017, and currently serves as Professor of the Department of Painting, Faculty of Fine Art, Tokyo University of the Arts.