Hirofumi Isoya : Lag

Born in 1978, received a BA in Architecture and an MFA in Inter Media Arts from Tokyo University of the Arts. Subsequent to that he completed the Associate Research programme in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Through photographs, sculptures, drawings, as well as installations that combine them, he reconsiders our perception of material objects and events.Recent exhibitions include “Time Machine,” YKG, Tokyo, 2016; “Imprisoned, Jailbreak, Imprisoned, Jailbreak," Capsule, Tokyo, 2016; “Actual Measurement,” Chika Ecoda, Nihon University College of Art, Tokyo, 2015; “The Beach That Never Was,” ICAS, Singapore, 2014; “Lag,” LISTE, Basel, 2014; “Duality of Existence,” Friedman Benda, New York, 2014; “Personal Structures,” Palazzo Bembo, Venice, 2013; “Tacit Material,” RM Gallery and Projects, Auckland, 2013; “Counting The Event,” Aoyama | Meguro, Tokyo, 2012, among others.In 2015, three artworks by Isoya were made part of Pompidou Centre’s permanent collection.