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Well… Hope this one works out…

admin — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 06:26:17 +0000

Went to Rancho Seco Park for shooting… just a making photo at this point : )

Vermont Studio Center

admin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:54:52 +0000

After 15 days of road trip from CA to VT, I finally started my residency at Vermont Studio Center. There must be close to 70 artists here, and some of them seem to be still MFA students, and many of us, including I, have teaching jobs. I am having interesting conversations everyday, every occasion.

“Birds” on Miami New Times

admin — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:09:39 +0000

Article about my solo exhibition “Where Do Birds Go Off to Die” at Black Square Gallery on Miami New Times by Carlos Suarez De Jesus.

Solo at Black Square Gallery in Miami

admin — Tue, 24 May 2011 19:15:03 +0000

“Where Do Birds Go Off to Die” my solo exhibition at Black Square Gallery in Miami just opened. The title is the same as my previous exhibition at SF Arts Commission Gallery. This time, I expressed a poetically expanded vision of the same theme; how we, or our survival systems destroy ourselves.

May 21st – July 5th
Black Square Gallery
2248 NW 1st Place, Miami, FL 33127
Telephone: 305-424-5002
www.blacksquaregallery.com

Black Birds

Desire to Fall

Exinclusivity
watch video trailer of Exinclusivity

West Collection

admin — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:24:55 +0000

Yesterday Thursday April 21st 2011, an exhibition of West Prize 2011 opened on the outskirts of Philadelphia. This location is a part of SEI, an investment company. In her speech, Paige West announced West Collection’s plan to obtain their own gallery/museum space for their collection in Philadelphia, and then she gave the final prize. I did not get it. Well, it’s one of those things that you sometimes get and sometimes don’t. But it made my day a bit sadder. But I don’t have time to be disappointed.

Interviewed by Kristin Farr form KQED

admin — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:46:52 +0000

Kristin Farr and Emmanuel Hapsis from KQED visited my studio and interviewed me. We had a fun conversation.

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Exinclusivity at Pro Arts (Oakland Art Gallery)

admin — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:55:22 +0000

I picked them up on the street to work for me.

I am showing my new performance/video installation at ProArts located at Oakland Art Gallery. I titled this new work “Exinclusivity.” I hope you can come to see my new exploration. Through my previous sculptural installation practices, I had been thinking about how desire and power make us self-destructive often from the historical or political point of view. This time, I wanted to deal with the sa in a more direct way through exploitative labor conditions.

2 x 2 Solos: Taro Hattori

March 8 – April 8, 2011
Artists Reception: March 10, 6 – 8 PM

Pro Arts 150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA 94612 (at Oakland Art Gallery) 510-763-4361
http://www.proartsgallery.org/

“Exinclusivity” at Pro Arts (Oakland Art Gallery) from Taro Hattori on Vimeo.

I specially thank to these great people and institutions:

Steve Blumenkrantz, Michael Damm, Jessica Diaz, Mariana Garibay, Ellen Lake, Thomas Lopes, Gary Nakamoto, California College of the Arts, Stanford University, National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Swarm Gallery (CA), Black Square Gallery (FL), Peter Miller Gallery (IL), many others who continue helping my practice.

West Collection / West Prize

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:21:26 +0000

West Collection selected me as one of 10 West Prize finalist and decided to acquire Obscenity -version 1 (picture below). It seems those 10 were selected among 2100 applicants! Wow. I am honored and also amazed by the number, considering their reviewing process. In May 2011, they will host an exhibition in Philadelphia and announce the final prize winner for $25,000. They will review our proposals for how to spend the prize.

Short lines about my work in Miami…

admin — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:44:25 +0000

It’s on Miami New Times by Carlos Suarez De Jesus

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First time in Miami

admin — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 06:39:26 +0000

Black Square Gallery in Miami present my work along with 5 other international artists. If you are coming to Art Basel in Miami, I believe shuttles are in service from the convention center to Wynwood Arts District where the gallery is located. Wynwood is the most active art district in Miami with contemporary art galleries. I am showing “Purge,” the series of small-size paper aircraft with explosion smoke and “…till that morning” the cardboard installation of B-29.

Black Square Gallery
Dream Catcher Project
Opening at November 29, at 7 pm
until January 6
Wynwood, 2248 NW 1st Place (on the cross with 23rd St), Miami, FL 33127  Gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm
During Art Basel Miami Beach week everyday from 9 am to 7 pm

Artists:
Comenius Roethlisberger and Admir Jahic (Switzerland)
Nazar Bilyk (Ukraine)
Pablo Lehmann (Argentina)
Taro Hattori (USA)
Volodymyr Kuznetsov (Ukraine)
Zhanna Kadyrova (Ukraine)

Some of my news…

admin — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 06:21:21 +0000

Vermont Studio Center gave me a fully funded fellowship for their residency program. It will be in July 2011.

http://www.vermontstudiocenter.org/october-1-award-winners-2/

http://www.vermontstudiocenter.org/

Black Square Gallery in Miami now represents my work in Florida. Some group Exhibitions and Solo exhibition (Feb 2011) are coming up. Stay tuned.
http://www.blacksquaregallery.com/

Matthew Post will curate my work for 2×2 Solos Exhibition at ProArts. It is a “two-solo” exhibition… It will be in March 2011.
http://www.proartsgallery.org

My work 1951 series is featured in Intersection: World Culture in the East Bay by East Bay Culture Corridor, a collaborative effort by the cities of Berkeley, Oakland, Emeryville and Richmond.
http://www.510arts.com/intersection.php?artist_id=1249

Where do birds go off to die

admin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:27:11 +0000

I am showing a new installation Where Do Birds Go Off to Die at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery for a group show Now and When. The reception is this Friday June 4th from 6 to 8 pm. My work in not in the main gallery but in the window installation space at 155 Grove Street around the corner from the gallery.

Now & When
Exhibition Dates: June 4 – September 4, 2010
Opening reception: Friday, June 4, 6 – 8 pm
Locations: Main Gallery and Grove Street

SFAC Gallery
401 Van Ness Ave (at McAllister)
San Francisco, CA 94102
p: 415.554.6080 | f: 415.554.6093

Window Installation
155 Grove Street

Where Do Birds Go Off to Die (2010)

The world began without man, and it will end without him.
-Claude Lévi-Strauss

Anyone whose goal is “something higher” must expect some day to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? … No, vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
-Milan Kundera

When we finally disappear, nature returns. Nature erases our footprints slowly but surely, and quietly but ruthlessly. Human civilization and history we nurture becomes a part of nature gradually, and this transitory moment vanishes into perpetuity. For som, death means the beginning of emptiness, but for nature, it means the end of alteration of specific matter and the beginning of another alteration of it. Our will for civilization is vertigo. Do pelicans, who fly along the seashore, feel vertigo?

Where Do Birds Go off to Die is supported by the Graue Family Foundation.

Special Thanks to:

Nate Ancheta
Dan Bacci
Mayumi Hamanaka
Gary Nakamoto
Tomo Saito
Bassem Yousri

Artillery Magazine

admin — Tue, 11 May 2010 20:58:12 +0000

On Artillery Magazine, my name was listed as one of “a few artists whose range of practices reflects the incredible talent and diversity of the San Francisco region.”

NEXT 2010 Chicago

admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:50:30 +0000

I finished installing my new work for NEXT 2010, Chicago. Swarm Gallery (Oakland) is presenting these new pieces along with Ethan Worden’s beautiful work which interestingly shares a lot with my work. The official opening is on April 30.

Art in America Review

admin — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 06:26:33 +0000

I am actually not sure if it has been printed on their April issue, but Art in America reviewed my solo exhibition “V”. The review was by Mark Van Proyen.

CCI Investing in Artist Grant

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 23:12:25 +0000

Wow. I was awarded a grant for purchasing equipment! It is Investing in Artists grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation. The amount is sufficient to buy the equipment and software programs in my mind. I really appreciate this decision at this particular time. I will try harder to make great artworks so that I don’t waste their appreciation of my work. Is this a joke on April Fool’s day?

Obscenity at McColl Center for Visual Art

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:29:11 +0000

Finally, I finished the installation at McColl Center for Visual Art. I was lucky to get funding from them to complete both this piece and the other piece at Dugg Dugg (Music Factory). I still need to do some final tweaks. I titled these pieces “Obscenity.” It was very interesting to do two different ways of installing the same airplane. Well, I made two of them, so it was quite intense, but at this point, I am happy about them. My residency at McColl Center is ending…

Installation at Dugg Dugg in Music Factory

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:17:43 +0000

I just finished this installation and came back home. It’s organized by Dugg Dugg (an alternative gallery) shown at Music Factory, Charlotte, NC. Yes, it’s a part of my residency at McColl Cente for Visual Art. Well… I am tired. I will put up a new page to explain the details.

It’s a life size airplane “Ohka.”

Residency and Exhibition at McColl Center

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:38:31 +0000

I am now in Charlotte, NC, doing my residency at McColl Center for Visual Art. The center has been treating me nicely. The city and the area around are still unknown for me and I haven’t been able to find “my place” yet.

Anyway, an exhibition of all the artists in residence will start on January 29th. I am showing four pieces from “1951,” “Coconut Beaut Brute,” and “M16″ from “Packed” along with a video that explains the project.

V -Solo Exhibition at Swarm Gallery

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:41:45 +0000

Oh, it was one of the busiest summers in my life. I started my residency at Headlands Center for the Arts at the end of July and it ended September 9. Then, I started another residency at Kuandu Museum in Taipei, Taiwan which ended on October 16. Well, and finally my solo show opened a few days ago.

“V” my solo show at Sarm Gallery in Oakland opened this Friday October 30th. The reception starts at 6 pm. I hope you all can come and fine me. Also, on November 11 starting at 6:30, I give an artist talk at the gallery with Jordan Essoe. I hope you can make it.

V Solo exhibition of work by Taro Hattori
October 30 – December 6, 2009 Exhibit Opening | Friday, October 30, 6-8PM Artist Talk with Taro Hattori + Jordan Essoe | November 11, 6:30PM

SWARM GALLERY
560 Second Street
Oakland, CA 94607
T/F: 510-839-2787 (ARTS)

GALLERY HOURS
Thursday – Sunday, 12 – 6 PM and by appointment

Window was filtered by yellow films!

Six light box pieces called “1951″