Toshiaki Hicosaka
彦坂敏昭

Biography

Born 1983, Aichi. Lives and works in Kyoto

Education

2005
Kyoto University of Art and Design, B.F.A., Department of Information Design

Solo Exhibition

2008
"Explorative Process Drawing" Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2009
"ARKO2009 Toshiaki Hicosaka" Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan

2010
"Rule-Rale-Rele" AISHO MIURA ARTS, Tokyo, Japan

2013
"Masonry Joint" AISHO MIURA ARTS, Tokyo, Japan
"Masonry Joint (Shigeo, Transparent)" Tool, Aichi, Japan
"Masonry Joint (Interface, Abstract)" Sanseido Gallery, Hyogo, Japan

Selected group Exhibitions

2005
"Selected Artists in Kyoto:2005 New Wave" The Museum of Kyoto, Japan

2006
"Echigo-tsumari Art Triennial 2006" Tokamachi, Niigata, Japan

2008
"The White" MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Tewnty." Dazed and Confused, London, UK
"MOT Annual 2008 Unraveling and Revealing" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan

2009
"Neoneo Part1 [Boys]: Neoneo boys are "Soshokukei - Herbivorous Artists"?" Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, Japan
"Rain Meets The Sun", MK Ciurlionis National Art Museum, Kaunas, Litetuva
"Barock Plastik", I-MYU Projects, London, UK

2010
"No Man's Land - Nouvelle Me´tamorphose du Lieu" The Embassy in France, Tokyo, Japan
"Discollage - Is there any rules in combination" Yuka Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan

2011
"Trans Complex The Painting in the Age of Information Technology" AISHO MIURA ARTS, Tokyo, Japan
"Trans Complex The Painting in the Age of Information Technology" Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan

2012
"New Phases in Contemporary Painting" Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan

2013
"The Painter of Modern Life" Gallery Hiramine, Kagoshima, Japan
"Education, Education and Education" Zone, Kurashiki University of Science and The Arts, Kurashiki, Japan
"Trick-Dimension" Tolot:heuristic Shinonome, Tokyo, Japan

Awards

2003
"The Grant" Sozan-kai Grant, Kyoto, Japan

2008
Nominated for "Shiseido Art Egg award" SHISEIDO Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2009
"The Grant" The Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York, USA

2011
The winner of "The DRAFT of Exhibition" Kyoto Art Center, Japan

2014
Nominated for "The 6th Kinutani Koji Award" The Mainichi Newspapers, Japan

Public Collection

Takahashi Collection
Ohara Museum of Art
JAPIGOZZI Collection