Hiroshi Shafer Japanese
I am making a series of hudibrastic sculptures about the spoon or fork and literal connections between ordinary life and imagination in American life. We can laugh at the shape of my sculptures but surprisingly beautiful.
Hiroshi Shafer was born in Tokyo, Japan. He received a BFA from Tokyo Zoukei Art University in Tokyo in 1997, Japan, After he joined in-depend TV production in Tokyo as director of the documentary program till 2004.
He moved to New York in 2004. He lives and works in Harlem, NY.
Solo Show
Zito Studio 2007
EnlishKills Art Gallery.2009/ 2012
Hakusen Gallery Tokyo. 2009 and 2012 will 2021 Parallel Performance Space Brooklyn NY 2019 Maishoku gallery Awaji-shima Japan 2020
Group Show
Flux Factory, Queens. 2008
Fountain Art fair Miami Fl., 2009
Exit Art Gallery, NYC, NY., 2009
EnlishKills Art Gallery.2011
Panoply Performance Laboratory( Parallel Performance) Brooklyn NY 2015/2016/2019
Makers fair Queens NY 2015
The Other Art Fair Brooklyn 2020
Tomato Mouse Brooklyn 2021
Houston Center for Contemporary CraftTX 2022
Workshop
NYC park 510 Vandervoort Ave, Brooklyn, NY 2008
God of Love workshop in the Prague Czech Republic 2009 Yogiga Expression Gallery Seoul, South Korea, 2011
Awards
The Curators (Contemporary art gallery) The Mask project 3rd prize 2020
THE ARTISTS FORUM FESTIVAL OF THE MOVING IMAGE : 2020