Installation, EX-Carcel, Valparaiso, Chile, 2001

Hiroshi Egami

born in Japan, Chiba prefecture, 1952

Lives and works in Chiba, Japan

Nationality: Japanese

contact

8 Mikawayashinden

Abiko-shi, Chiba 270 – 1105, Japan

egamihero@msn.com

tel : +81 (0)4 7189 6021

mobil : +81 (0)90 9858 4625

Fax : +81 (0)4-7189-3685.

formation

1972 - 1982      

Studied at the studio of Kakuzo Tatehata, sculptor 

1974 - 1976

Studied sculptures in Taiheiyo art Institute, Tokyo   

1981 

Began creating works using small stones suspended from ceilings and became interested in working with "space"

1998 - 2007     

ABIKO  OPEN - AIR  Exhibition organizer      

SELECTED  SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1982          Gallery Kaneko ART G 1, Tokyo

1983          Gallery Kaneko ART G 1, Tokyo

1984          INDEPENDENT Gallery 2, Tokyo

1986          INDEPENDENT Gallery 3

             Gallery+1, Tokyo

1987          Gallery Q

              Gallery +1, Tokyo   

1988          Gallery NW  HOUSE , Tokyo

1989          Gallery CHIYODA  , Tokyo

1993          Gallery IN THE BLUE, Utsunomiya, Tochigi

1997          Dainichiyama Art Museum, Oyama, Tochigi

1998          Gallery IN THE BLUE, Utsunomiya, Tochigi

SELECTED  GROUP  EXHIBITION

1980

"13th  International Art Exhibition of Japan"

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum

Kyoto Municipal Museum

1981

"POSITION' 81", Yokohama Municipal Gallery

1982    

"POSITION' 82", Yokohama Municipal Gallery

1987

"TOYOSAKU", Saito and Japanese Pointillistic Exhibitions

"SAITAMA", Museum of Modern Art

"HARA ANNUAL 7", Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

"ART DOCUMENT' 87", Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts

AWARDS AND PRIZES

1990     

"A FORN OF THE PERIOD", Spiral Garden, Tokyo       

1992      

"SPACE FACTORY' 92"   THEATER  V  AKASAKA ,  Tokyo

"NATURE AND ART", Kiel, Germany

"A PLACE AND THINKING", Rothschönberg, Germany

"ART AND CULTURE", Husum, Germany

"NATURE AND ART SYMPOSIUM", Pinneberg/Ammersbeck, Germany    

1993   

"ART ARCHITECTURE", Seibu Kodo, Kyoto

"INTERNATIONAL C.A.C. IN TSUKUI' 93", Kanaga

1994

"SPACE FACTORY' 94", Yokohama Business Park

"SAMUKAWA OPEN AIR ART EXHIBITION' 94", Kanagawa

"DER GEKRÜMMTE RAUM", Kunsthaus Nürnberg, Germany

 - Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition

1995    

"SPACE FACTORY' 95", Yokohama Business Park

"THE INTERNATIONAL NATURE ART SYMPOSIUM", Kong-Ju, Korea