Hiroyuki Hamada
Hamada was born and raised in Tokyo. He holds an MFA from the University of Maryland, has taught sculpture at Penland School of Craft, and served as a Visiting Artist at the Vermont Studio Center. Over the years, he has been awarded various residencies including those at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Edward F. Albee Foundation/William Flanagan Memorial Creative Person’s Center, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Skowhegan Fellowship), Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and MacDowell Colony (The Milton and Sally Avery Fellowship).
Hamada has exhibited widely in gallery and non-commercial settings alike. His work has been shown by Lori Bookstein Fine Art and O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY; Guild Hall and folioeast, East Hampton, NY; Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY; Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI; The List Gallery; Swarthmore, PA; Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC, among others.
In 1998, Hamada was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, and in 2009 he was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He was a two time recipient of New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships (2009 and 2017), and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018.
Hamada lives and works in East Hampton, New York.
“Artists are blessed with that rare moment when everything disappears in our studios except for our works and ourselves—that moment when we feel the profound connection to what we have worked on as it melds with the world, space and time.
Such an occasion is indeed very rare but it is what I strive to capture while I struggle in my studio.
I believe that the exploration to perceive the world far beyond the framework of corporatism, colonialism and militarism continues to be a crucial part of being an artist and being human.” — HH
My visions are achieved through various combinations of painting, printmaking and drawing. The dichotomy of chaos and calm informs and directs my work.” — PD
#53, 2005-2008, painted plaster, 38 x 14.5 in
#52, 2002-2008, painted plaster, 25 x 19 in
#32, 1998-2001, painted plaster, 38 x 36 x 1.75 in
#59, 2005-2008, painted plaster, 20 x 36 in
#55, 2005-2008, painted plaster, 44 x 24 x 12.5 in
#54, 2003-2008, painted plaster, 37 in x 26.5 in