Yoko Ono

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.