Advising and Investing in Transformative Leaders
Advising and Investing in Transformative Leaders
Acrylic, graphite on paper. 42 x 32 inches.
Over the past several years, Hiro’s daily drawing practice has formed the basis from which his exploration of the body has generated an expansive set of ideas and images which influence his broader practice.
Measuring 42 x 32 inches (a scale that approximates one-half of the artists body), contorted, self-examining forms and distended body parts, rib cages, hair, legs, genitals, are viscerally rendered and serve as Hiro’s visual lexicon.
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Naotaka Hiro (B. 1972, Osaka, Japan) was born and grew up in Japan and lives/works in Los Angeles. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts in 2000. For the past decade, Hiro has used his own body as a point of departure in sculpture, video, painting and drawing. His work is very much about exploring the body, the limitations of the body, and using the body in a very performative way to make the paintings.
Museum collections include: MoMA, New York, The Whitney Museum, New York, MOCA, Los Angeles, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA.
Naotaka Hiro's work is also included in Phaidon’s Vitamin D3: Today's Best in Contemporary Drawing, the latest installment of the acclaimed series.
Hiro is one of a few select group of artists whose images are used in the promotion of the book.