Hiroshi Kariya | New York Based Artist |

Re-Assembled Used Sheet Rock After Hidetoshi Nagasawa

Exhibition:12'x30'x2"

Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan, 1994

Paint on canvas, hunged behind the wall. 10'x12'

Art Tower Mito, 1994

Masked Library of My Distant Relatives

Weather proofed,UV protected photo banner, plexiglass

Assembled of 45 Units:12'x30'x2"

Project rendering installation at Wyth, Bklyn, NY

私の遠い親族たちの仮面図書館

Installation Rendering, his own private gallery

MASKED LIBRARY OF MY DISTANT RELATIVES

Face Mask Installation | Rendering | 2020 | for his own private gallery

"Carousel Mask of The Times"

Rendering video image projection

Fossil Chalk series: mixed media, plaster with shredded printed news article titles, twitter articles, room dust, studio debris, plaster debris, left over articles, cloths of writings, paper scrap, scrap metal, plastics, nails, screws, pencil leads, job site debris, and/or plastics, rasin, silicon...

Tokyo Designer's Week Art Fair, 2011

presented by Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo

1980's

2000's

1990's

Art Tower Mito Web Project:

In Memory of 911, 2001"

Seed Sutra with 4 Line Poem. 2001-2003.

1994

Art Tower Mito Web Project:

In Memory of 911, 2001"

Seed Sutra with 4 Line Poem. 2001-2003.

1990's

Trash And Debris

-ICA Philadelphia 1990, "Sutra", Phil. PA

-Ihara Ludens Gallery 1992, New York

-Sparks Gallery II 1993 "In Memory of 1992"

-Mizuma Art Gallery 1994 "Sign of The Times"

-Mizuma Art Gallery 1995 "Chalkboard Sutra"

-Mizuma Art Gallery 1996 "Emptiness"

-Mizuma Art Gallery 1997 "Parallel Chalkboard"

1980's

Kariya's painting is his "is the now" sutra writings on various objects by random picks; shredded page of Bible+Quran+Heart Sutra+NYT, World Atlas, post cards, old snap photos, portfolios, portrait photos, missing child milk crates, memos, drawings, card boards, chicken bones, pork bones, ox bones, receipts, stickers, sea shells, stones, Hudson drifted wood, construction debris, sheet rocks, craft papers, shopping bags, paper bags, duct tapes, sheets, cloths, anonymous photos, found woods, picture frames, napkins, trashed memos, plastics, old records, record tapes, rices, beans, seeds, dried bread, pasta, and millions of others. Exit Art, 1989, ICA Phil, 1990.