Background
He was born in 1960 in Fukuoka, Japan and now lives and works in New New York
平川 典俊
He was born in 1960 in Fukuoka, Japan and now lives and works in New New York
Hirakawa works in a variety of media including photography, performance and installation. Hirakawa"s photographs are described as "erotic and intimate". His architectural photographs, unusually featuring prominent models, challenge the viewer to consider the meaning of architecture on modern urban life.
Noritoshi Hirakawa has exhibited his work in a variety of galleries, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, the Pompidou Centre, Paris, MoMA PS1 in New York City, multiple galleries in New York, Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, the Art & Public Contemporary Art Gallery, Geneva, the Gallerie Ferdinand van Dieten in Amsterdam, the Christophe Guye Galerie in Zurich, and in Kölane
He was invited to present his work at the SMAK, Ghent in Belgium during the group-exhibition “Casino 2001” and the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt included the work “Dreams of Tokyo” in its permanent collection. Additional works by Hirakawa in permanent collections include: "Woman Children and Japanese" at The Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Art Collection, Turin, Italy, "Garden of Nirvana" at Multimedia over Coax Alliance Los Angeles, and "Reconfirmation" at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin.
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