KEN Hiratsuka

Ken Hiratsuka

 

1959 Born Shimodate City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

   

1982 BA Sculpture, Musashino University, Tokyo

 

1982

Art Students League, NYC Began concept of One Line Sculpture by carving a spiral on the sidewalk; continues through nature stones and public site works around the world to create a model of universal language on the surface of the earth as one huge rock. 

Selected One Man Exhibitions

2008 25 Bond Street, NYC,  “River” (100’x16’ carved granite sidewalk) and “Nike” (7’h standing granite) permanent installation sponsored by Goldman Properties.

 

2007

Roxbury Arts Center, Walt Meade Gallery, Roxbury, NY

   

2004 The Catskill Center's Erpf Gallery, Arkville, New York

   

2002 Issei Miyake Madison Avenue, New York

   

2001 R.V.'s Pop Shop Gallery, Orlando Florida

 

1996 Emerging Collector Gallery, New York

 

1994 AMUSE, 599 Broadway, NYC

 

1990 Jadite Gallery, New York

 

1987 Gallery White Art, Tokyo and the Foreign Correspondents Club, Tokyo

 

1986 NoSeNo & Freddie the Dreamer, New York

 

1985 Now Gallery, New York

 

1984 The A's Gallery, New York City

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2003 Ibiza, Pronostica Art Festival

 

2002 Lights of Istanbul, 2002

Buyukckmecel

 

2001 Freiburg, Germany 12-ton boulder mounted in Municipal Park Group Show

 

2000 Kiel, Germany, "American Street Art"

 

1999 Torino, Italy, Pittura Dura Museum, "Dal Graffitismo alla Street Art"

 

1998 AWARD OF EXCELLENCE In-Sites IV: Opening the Streetscape/School to Community, Henry Street Abrons Art Center, NYC

 

1997 La Posteria, Milan, Italy, "Keith Haring and New York Street Art"

 

1996 Tianjin (TEDA) International Sculpture Symposium, Tianjin, China

 

1995 In-Sites II: Lower East Side Artists Re-Think Neighborhood Streets, Henry Street Settlement, NYC

 

1994 Egon von Kameke Haus, Potsdam, Germany

 

1993 Hopes and Dreams, Tweed Gallery/Tenement Museum, City Hall, New York

 

1991 Art New York, Musée des Anciens Mécaniques, Paris

Rivington School Group Show, P.S.1, New York

 

1988 AU International, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo

Rivington School, spons. by Hankyu Dept. Store, Osaka, Japan

 

1984 Brooklyn '84, Brooklyn Museum, Community Gallery, Brooklyn

 

1983

Terminal New York, Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn

Selected Public Monuments/Permanent Sculptures

2004 Montauk new york "drifted coral" 6'x6'x4' granite boulde

   

2004 Shimodate japan "fossil of the moment" 7'x8'x4' granite boulder

   

2003 Ibiza spain "story of pronostica" 6'x6' limestone

   

2002 Buyukcekmece istanbul turkey " light of istanbul" 4'x5'x6' and 3'x4'x7' marble

   

2001 New Smyrna Beach, Florida, Carved Jetty Rock, 6'x10' granite, with permission of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, assisted by Atlantic Center for the Arts

 

1999 Guilin "Yuzi Paradise" Sculpture Symposium, 1m x 4m gray granite, Guilin, China

 

1999 Hand Forged One Line Steel Fence, Private Commission, Landmark Brownstone Building, New York City

 

1998 Guangzyou china "performer's rock" 5'x5' unfinished

   

1996 Huairou Sculpture Park, 20'x15'x8' gray granite - Beijing, China

 

1995 Ogasawara "Bonin" Island, 3'x8' volcanic stone, Japan

 

1993 Karesuando, "Daavi Suuva" Saami Nation Festival, 3'x5' granite, Saamiland, Sweden

 

1992 Eco Summit/Global Forum, Granite 10'x15'x6', Flamingo Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Mount Merapi, Andesite 32'x23'x8', Jogjakarta, Indonesia

 

1991 Center for Contemporary Art, 3 Sandstones 20'x20'x6, Santa Fe, N.M.

 

1990 E.N.D. Convention, Granite 10'x6'x5', Helsinki, Finland

Socrates Sculpture Park, 100 ft. sidewalk, slate, L.I.C., NY

 

1989 Red Square "Concrete Beach," engraved concrete sidewalk 500'x10', 250 E. Houston, NYC

 

1988 2B Gas Station, Carved Concrete Stage 20'x30', NYC

Graduation Monument, Andesite 3 stones 3'x4'x4' each, Shimodate High School, Japan

 

1987 Cowra Japanese Garden, Peace Monument: 12 Boulders, Granite 5'x7'x96'Cowra, NSW, Australia

 

1986 Behind Mt. Fuji, conglomerate 20'x20'x10', Sano River, Japan

Northernmost Point of Japan, Andesite 3'x5'x7', Cape Soya, Hokkaido

 

1984 Granite sidewalk, 6'x8', Prince & Broadway, NW corner, NYC

 

1982 First sidewalk carving, slate 5'x8', 212 21st St., Brooklyn, NY

Museum Collections

 

1993 Kemi Art Museum, Black Granite, 8 tons, Kemi, Finland

Tornio Museum, 8 granite stones 30'x30'x3', Tornio, Finland

 

1992 Modern Art Museum Granite 1'x2'x2', Rio De Janeiro, Brasil

 

1987 Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Carved entrance & garden stepping stones, Tokyo

etc

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久しぶりにKENや曇エスケン、Kazや英司に会った。

KENの特技は地球上の物ならなんでもワンライン彫りにしてつなげてしまうことだ。

• I met KEN and S Ken, Kaz and Eiji in Tokyo after a long absence.