Hiroaki Morita
1973 Born in Fukui, Japan, lives in Tokyo, Japan
2017 Lucas Artists Residency Program at Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga in California
2002 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, UK
1998 Completed B seminar schooling system, Kanagawa, Japan
Selected Solo shows
2016 “From Something to Something Else” Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
2015 “From Something to Something Else” LISTE – Art Fair Basel 2015, Basel, CH
2014 “Travel’s Way≒Sazaedo” (with Teppei Soutome as MaS(T)A), 3331 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013 “Hiroaki Morita: Part1+Part2” Café +Gallery Seesaw, Aichi, Japan
2012 “Exchange –making/ remark/ object –” NADiff Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012 “3 Instructions” (Art Fair Tokyo), Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan
2011 “Gather with someone at the same time in the same place” blanClass, Kanagawa, Japan
2011 “Timequake” Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
2009 “Local Earthquake” KABEGIWA (Musashino Art University), Tokyo, Japan
2009 “collage” MADOGIWA (Musashino Art University), Tokyo, Japan
2008 “Clockwise” Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
2008 “DO” Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design, Aichi, Japan
2007 “Nine Mirrors” Gallery Twinspace, Osaka, Japan
2005 “New Order” Gallery Objective Correlative, Tokyo, Japan
2004 “Hiroaki Morita” Gallery Twinspace, Osaka, Japan
2003 “U8 project Vol.1” Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design, Aichi, Japan
Selected Group shows
2017 “Un Week-End d’exposition ephémère.” Fondation d’art Fiminco, Paris
2015 “Simulation game” (with Teppei Soutome as MaS(T)A), Atelier, Kawaguchi Art Gallery, Saitama, Japan
2015 “The Camera Knows Everything” HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo, Japan
2015 “Jump” Towada Art Center, Aomori
2015 “I’m sorry please talk more slowly” Shibuya Hikarie 8/ CUBE 1, 2, 3, Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo, Japan
2015 “DIALOGUES 2nd “River Town” (Kawa no Machi)”, Nihonbashi Institution of Contemporary Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2014 “Secret of Creation” Oguchicho Museum of History and Folklore, Aichi, Japan
2014 “Fuchu of Madness” Loophole,Tokyo, Japan
2014 “3331 Art Fair” (with Teppei Soutome as MaS(T)A)3331 Arts chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
2013 “Mono no aware: The Beauty of Things” The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersberg, Russia
2013 “Tuchiyu Arafudo Art Annual 2013” Tuchiyu Onsen, Fukushima, Japan
2013 “Why not live for ArtⅡ” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012 “An Art Journey was the Beginning Art Karen 10th Anniversary” Gallery Karen, Kanagawa, Japan
2012 “Figuratively Speaking” Jacob’s Island Gallery, London, UK
2012 “MOT Annual 2012 Making Situations, Editing Landscapes” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2012 “Montblanc Young Artist Patronage 2012” Montblnac, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
2012 “Study No.3” blanClass, Kanagawa, Japan
2012 “Sculptures: Why Does Love Got to be So Sad” Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
2012 “Ryugu is Over!!”(with Ari Okubo), Ryugu Bijutu Ryokan, Kanagawa, Japan
2011 “Art & Product” Ai Kowada Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2011 “One Day Cafe #3”, Mansho S Building, Aichi, Japan
2011 “It is not an art center” HAPPA, Tokyo, Japan
2010 “Dislocation” Island, Chiba, Japan
2010 “LLOVE” Daikanyama I studio, Tokyo, Japan
2010 “Tominaga Motonao + Suei Fumihiro + Tomita Motoaki + Morii Hirohiro + Sueta Fumiaki + Morinaga Hironao” Switch Point, Tokyo, Japan
2009 “Touch the World” Borderless Art Museum NO-MA, Shiga , Japan
2009 “5×2: Itazu Litho-Grafic” Gendai Heights Gallery Den, Tokyo, Japan
2009 “Open Studio” Koigakubo Studio, Tokyo, Japan
2009 “Geba Geba Summer Show” MISAKO&ROSEN, Tokyo, Japan
2009 “Multi-Faced Mirror” (The House Exhibition), Nippon Homes Model Houses, Tokyo, Japan
2009 “5 artists ×5 folios: Itazu Litho-Grafic” Bankokubashi Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
2009 “Happiness in Everyday Life” Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
2008 “New Tokyo Contemporaries: End of The Tunnel” Shin-Marunouchi Building, Tokyo, Japan
2006 “Vol.0 The presentiment of Scene” (CET 2006), White House, Tokyo, Japan
2006 “Everyday LIfe is a Microcosm” Cornell University Department of Art’s Experimental Studio, New York, USA
2006 “Rock in Rucksack” Tokyo National University of Art & Music, Tokyo, Japan
2005 “Mountain of Art: Camp” Nadiff, Tokyo, Japan
2004 “Konran Show” Okada Studio, Aichi, Japan
2003 “Antinomie” Gallery Objective Correlative, Tokyo, Japan
2003 “TPR Exhibition” Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design, Aichi, Japan
2003 “Urban and Suburban Stories” VTO, London, UK
2002 “Error” canolfan, Nagoya, Japan / Switch Point, Tokyo, Japan (2003) / Gallery Twin Space, Osaka, Japan (2003)
2002 “Blondes Buy More Peroxide” 1,000,000 mph, London, UK
2002 “Moving Collection” AIT hour museum, Tokyo, Japan
2002 “Bottles off the wall” The Montpelier Pub, London, UK
2002 “Random-Ize Film and Video Festival” Sovi Art Centre, London, UK
2002 “The Red Mansion Spero Prize” The London Institute Gallery at Milbank, London, UK
1998 “Art Sphere Haizuka ’98, homestay: art work in residence” (Haizuka Earthworks Projects), Hiroshima, Japan
1997 “Echinococcus” Megro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Video Screenings
2013 “Art Line Kashiwa 2013: Visions” Kashiwa, Japan
2013 “Clockwise” HIGURE 17-15 CAS, Tokyo, Japan
2012 “Better Life for Artists” HIGURE 17-15 CAS, Tokyo, Japan (organized by Artists’ Guild)
2012 “Art Line Kashiwa 2012: Kashiwa City Jack “, Kashiwa, Japan
2006- “Theory of Everything: Video Art from Tokyo” (curated by Yuki Okumura)
2011 Gallery F, Scarritt Bennett Center, Nashville, USA
2008 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2008 Contemporary Art Screen Zuidas, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007 Tainan National University of the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan
2007 “Dong Fang: The Cinema of the Far East”, Castel Sant’Elmo, Napoli, Italia
2006 Workstation Art Center, Beijing, China
2006 tank.tv (online museum), London, UK
2006 Location One, New York, USA
2006 Einstein Auditorium, New York University, New York, USA
2006 Asian Cultural Council, New York, USA
Performances
2010 Enjoying the opening for my group exhibition, Island, Chiba, Japan
2006 At that moment, the clock’s hand moved, White House, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Pepsi & Coca-Cola, GALLERY OBJECTIVE CORRELATIVE, Tokyo, Japan
Other corroborative work
2015 “Talking session ARTISTS’ GUILD of the 20th anniversary of the opening: Artists as the dweller“, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan
2014 New Year PresentationVol.3 with The Academy of Alter-Glbalization blanclass Yokohama
2013 from Student night Final Presentation blanclass@AIT with The Academy of Alter-Glbalization AIT Tokyo
2013 from Student night blanclass@Mori Art Museum with The Academy of Alter-Glbalization Mori Art Museum Tokyo
2013 New Year Presentation with The Academy of Alter-Glbalization blanclass Yokohama
Awards
2014 3331 Art Fair JIKKA Prize, (with Teppei Soutome as MaS(T)A)
2014 3331 Art Fair Fumio Nanjo Prize, (with Teppei Soutome as MaS(T)A)
Public Collections
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersberg, Russia