Hiroshi Kariya was born in Japan and moved to the United States in 1977. Since then, he has pioneered a form of *self-archaeological art, researching the archetypes of the work's formation structure and existential conceptual structure. He embodies the traces of the work's creation process in events and materials, verifying the sources of "that" representation. He transforms this process of trial and error into a work of art. The world we live in, including the universe, is one. Kariya imprints the simultaneity of events and all things in the three-letter inscription "the now is." It is an illusion of a landscape where "everything is one." Each of the three letters in "the now is" is independent and meaningless on its own, but together they form a trinitarian structure where each complements the meaning of the others. We, too, complement each other's meanings in a similar way. The fragments encoded as letters or objects present meaning as evidence that everything, from amoebas to cosmic debris, exists simultaneously. Meaning is recognized only through the act of being conscious of that "oneness." The purpose of the work lies in the illusionary awareness of the "oneness" of integration on the superficial surface of division and discrimination.

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　Kariya uses news media articles and images as typical examples of virtual information, collectively referring to his works as "news paintings" or "news sculptures." These are evidence of the virtual present in the information society, examples of time code references. At the same time, they are used for archaeological verification in work management, presenting the illusion of classification, analysis, organization, and management.

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　The work is constant ONGOING "thread" makings. All is from the same source, but with different aspect of life. His early works  were exhibited in his solo show at Exit Art, NY in 1989, and following solo exhibition "SUTRA" at ICA Philadelphia, in 1990.→ Sozansky articles

  “Sutra” Sanskrit; code, thread, string, book binding string, or a scripture. Sacred code, line, measuring line, sequence, column, grid.

   Kariya has exhibited at the New York Armory Show in 2019. MOMA PS1 "Meditation" for the "Sound Show" special project, 1979. Exit Art "Sutra" 1989. ICA Philadelphia "Sutra: One thing in everything: everything in one thing" 1990, "Et Maintenant" ENSBA, Paris, 1998, lectures and exhibitions at sebral organizations, museums, galleries.​

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