BioTAKASHI HORISAKI (b.1974, Tokyo) is a New York-based sculptor whose work has been exhibited internationally at venues including New Orleans’s Prospect.1 Biennial (2008), the Incheon Women Artists Biennale, Korea (2009), the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2012), and Seoul Art Space Geumcheon (2012). In 2014, Horisaki collaborated with Nina Horisaki-Christens on Metabolic Morphology, a project produced for Recess’s Sessions Series in Soho, and subsequently presented at a Calder Foundation event next to Gramercy Park. Horisaki also developed a community collaboration for LMCC’s Paths to Pier 42 program as part of his ongoing Social Dress series, conducting workshops in collaboration with various community organizations in New York’s Lower East Side. He has received commissions from the Sculpture Center, NY; Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; the Queens Museum of Art, NY; the Storefront for Art and Architecture, NY; Buffalo Arts Studio, NY; and Southeastern Louisiana University. His work has also been shown in exhibitions at Abrons Arts Center Gallery (2013, 2011); hpgrp Gallery New York (2012); Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Projects (2012); Kunsthalle Galapagos, NY (2011); Regina Rex, NY (2010); Third Streaming Gallery, NY (2010); the Mason Gross Galleries at Rutgers University, NJ (2010); the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany (2008); Flux Factory Inc., Queens (2006, 2007); The LAB Gallery, San Francisco (2006); Murray Guy Gallery, New York (2005); and the Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis (2004). A participant in the 2013-14 Harvestworks New Works Residency Program, the 2012-13 Abrons Arts Center AIRspace Residency, the 2012 Urban Research Project Residency at Seoul Art Space Geumchoen, and the 2008-09 LMCC Workspace Residency Program, Horisaki is the recipient of awards including the POLA Art Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2010-11), the Urban Artist Initiative/New York City Fellowship (2008), the Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship (2005-06), and the Socrates Sculpture Park Open Space program grant (2007). His work has been discussed in publications including Art in America, Artforum, ArtReview, The New York Times, the Brooklyn Rail, the Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, NPR’s Studio 360, the Geothe-Institut’s Humbolt Magazine, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, the NEA Arts Magazine, the Art21 Blog and Bijutsu Techō. Horisaki has also conducted workshops and lectures at organizations including the Japan Society; DIA/Abrons Arts Center at the Lower East Side Prep Academy; Seoul Art Space Geumcheon; The 3RDspace Summer Leadership Institute in Creativity & Innovation presented by CoLAB, Piasa Bluffs Writing Project and the Saint Louis Art Museum; the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Brooklyn House of Kulture in Coney Island; Pratt Institute; Webster University (St. Louis, MO); and Loyola University in New Orleans.
education MFA 2005 Studio Art – Sculpture May 2005 Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
B.F.A. 2003 Studio Art – Sculpture & Digital Media emphasis Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana
1997-2000 Urushi (Traditional Japanese Lacquer ware) apprentice under Nagatoshi Onishi, Professor Emeritus of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music
B.A. 1998 Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan Major in Art History (Japanese Buddhist/Craft Art History)
exhibition history 2016 Knife Hits, curated by Rachel Phillips, Spring Break, New York (upcoming) 2015 Internet Yami-ichi, Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, NY Place Names the Place, curated by Andrew Thompson, Eastern Michigan University Gallery, MI
2014 Metabolic Morphology, Session at Recess (Soho), New York, NY Social Dress Lower East Side – Material Memories, Paths to Pier 42, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Lower East Side Waterfront Alliance, New York, NY Cemetarium, Emerson Dorsch Gallery and Regina Rex, Miami, FL Share This! Appropriation After Cynicism, Denny Gallery, New York, NY The Wall, Brooklyn Fireproof, New York, NY
2013 AIRSpace 2013, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY Dia/Abrons LESP Education Exhibition, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY(as educator/curator) Thanks, organized by Adam Parker Smith, Lu Magnus Gallery, New York, NY Backdrop for Labyrinth Choir’s rendition of Faure’s Requiem, collaboration with set designer Anna Etsuko Tsuri, Lexington, MA
2012 Urban Research Project, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea Contested Territories, curated by Miguel Amado, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Program, Long Island City, NY Views of Life, curated by Reiko Tomii, hpgrp Gallery New York, NY Social Dress St. Louis, curated by Los Caminos, Front Room at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO Transhuman, curated by Cecelia Stucker, SchoolHouse Projects, New York Mutual Friends, Present Company, NY In Practice: You never look at me from the place from which I see you, curated by Kristen Chappa, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
2011 InSite: Art +Commemoration – Ideas, Online exhibition as part of LMCC’s commemoration of September 11, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY NY Can’t Hear the Revolution, Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY The Days of this Society Are Numbered, Abrons Arts Center, curated by Miguel Amado, New York, NY
2010 Planet of the Slums, Third Streaming, New York, NY Regina Rex Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Planet of Slums, curated by LaToya Ruby Fazier and Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers Univ., NJ Irrelevant: Local Emerging Asian Artists Who Don’t Make Art About Being Asian, Arario Gallery, New York, NY Social Dress Buffalo: The Past Reflecting the Future, Buffalo Arts Center, NY
2009 Hanging out at ABC No Rio, curated by Erin Marie Sickler, at ABC No Rio and Cuchfritos Gallery, New York, NY The 21st Century, the Feminine Century, and The Century of Diversity and Hope, curated by Heng-gil Han for the 2009 Incheon Women Artists Biennale, Korea Forever Summer, Denise Bibro Fine Arts, New York, NY Other, Other…High Visibility, curated by Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Nathan Cummings Foundation Gallery, NY
2008 Propect.1 Biennial, curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA Carving the Coast, Southeastern Contemporary Art Gallery, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA Metro Poles: Art in Action, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning in co-operation with the Bronx River Arts Center, Queens, NY 2 Degrees. Weather, Man and his Climate, The German Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany Say Goodbye to…, curated by Donna Harkavy and Marion Wilson, Clifford Art Gallery at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY There is No Synonym for Hope, curated by Lauren Schell Dickens and Julie McKim, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY This Case of Conscience: Spiritual Flushing and the Remonstrance, Queens Museum of Art, NY (commission – group show) Among the Ruins, Curated by Sarah Urist Green, Space 301 Off Center, Mobile, AL
2007 NYNYNY, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY Social Dress New Orleans – 730 days after, Socrates Sculpture Park, NY(commission) Second Line, AdHoc Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Down the Street and around the Corner, Flux Factory Inc, Queens, NY(catalogue) Listening – Living Art from Tokyo and San Francisco, The LAB Gallery, SF, CA Boomerang: Visual Arts Alumni Exhibition, Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2005 Invited, Emerging Artist Exhibition, Murray Guy, Chelsea, NY Inaugural Exhibition, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO MFA Thesis Exhibition, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO Sculpture Exhibition, 2400 S. Jefferson, St. Louis, MO
2004 -Scope London Art Fair, London, England (Invitational) Within/Without, Artists working with the Collection, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (catalogue) Birth Rite September 2004, solo performance, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO Well Hung – Passport to Contemporary Art Exhibit, Critical Mass for Visual Arts Exhibition, The Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, MO (Juried) Emerging Sculptors: Louisiana Student Exhibition, International Sculpture Center Annual Conference, Barriere Space, New Orleans, LA Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO MFA School of Art Washington University Group Exhibition, Moreau Art Galleries at Saint Mary’s college, Notre Dame, IN Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Art….., group exhibition, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO Art is Everything, group exhibition, SEEN Gallery Group, Fort Gondo Gallery, St. Louis, MO 1st year MFA Exhibition, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO Vernacular, two person show, Fort Gondo Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2003 Scully Scholarship Winner Solo Exhibition, Dana Center Gallery, New Orleans, LA Righty Tighty Lefty Loosey group sculpture exhibition, St. Louis, MO
2002 7th Annual No Dead Artists: An Open Juried Exhibition of New Orleans Art Today, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1st Annual Tennessee Williams Visual Arts Juried, Exhibition New Orleans, LA Loyola Annual Juried Student Show, New Orleans, LA (1st Place Award)
Grants/Awards/Residencies
2013-14 Harvestworks New Works Residency, NYC, NY 2012-13 AIRspace, Abrons Arts Center, Henry Street Settlement, NYC, NY 2012 Commission for ceiling preservation artwork, Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC, NY 2012 Urban Research Project Residency, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea 2010-2011 POLA Art Foundation Emerging Artist Research Grant, Japan 2008 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency Recipient, NYC, NY Urban Artist Initiative/New York City Fellowship Recipient, NYC, NY 2007 Open Space Program Commission from Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC, NY 2004-5 Recipient of Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture, Dedalus Foundation, Inc. NYC, NY Nominated for 2004 Outstanding Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, NJ 2003 School of Art Scholarship, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Lectures/Visiting Critic/Teaching Experience
2014 Abrons Arts Center Adult Workshop, New York, NY 2013 Potluck Artist Talk Series, Japan Society, New York, NY DIA/Abrons Arts Center Art Class for Lower East Side Prep Academy, NY “Politics and Cultural Histories,” coversation with Danielle Adair and Takashi Horisaki in conjunction with Contested Territories at Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY 2012 Workshop for high school students in Geumcheon, Korea Workshop for The 3RDspace Summer Leadership Institute in Creativity & Innovation, presented by CoLAB, Piasa Bluffs Writing Project and the Saint Louis Art Museum, hosted by the Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO Guest Lecture, Teen Museum Studies program, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO Guest Lecture for Sculpture II, St. Louis Community College at Meramec, St. Louis, MO 2011 Hunter College MFA Student Association Visiting Critic, CUNY, NY Recycling Culture, Urban Neighborhood Services with Brooklyn House of Kulture, Coney Island, NY 2008 Pratt Institute, Visiting Artist Lecture and Studio Visits, Brooklyn, NY 2006 Radio interview on WTUL, New Orleans, LA 2005 Webster University, Visiting Artist, St. Louis, MO Washington University in St. Louis, Lacquer Arts lecturer for Asian Arts: Ancient Worlds to Contemporary Practice Art History class, MO 2004 Loyola University New Orleans, Visiting Artist, LA
Bibliography
2015 “10 Artists to Know from America’s First-Ever Internet Flea Market,” by Kate Messinger, The Creators Project, September 14, 2015, http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/ blog/10-artists-to-know-from-americas-first -ever-internet-flea-market
2014 “History in the Age of the Latex Cast,” by Kelly Chan, Critical Writing at Recessart.org, May 2014, http://www.recessart.org/activities/8978 “The Making of Paths to Pier 42: An Interview with Takashi Horisaki and Team,” by Amanda Pelavin, Aug 14, 2014, http://pathstopier42.com/ 2014/08/14/the-making-of-paths-to-pier-42-an- interview-with-takashi-horisaki-and-team/ “We Went to Soho: Soho Art and Vietnamese Food,” by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball, ArtFCity.com, April 23, 2014, http://artfcity.com/ 2014/04/23/we-went-to-soho-soho-art-and- vietnamese-food/ “Placemaking and Social Equity: Expanding the Framework of Creative Placemaking,” by Debra Webb, Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts vol 3, issue 1 (Winter 2014), p.35-48. “Glimpses of the Past and a High Tech Future: A Critic’s Gallery Crawl Through SoHo and TriBeCa,” by Karen Rosenberg, New York Times, April 3, 2014
2013 “Interviews: Residency Artists in Seoul,” by Dan Hards, Eloquence Magazine; For Creators About Creators issue 65 (August 2013), p.60-102 “Provocations, Improvisations: Encounters Between Art and Qualitative Research,” talk by Rachel Holmes, 3rd Summer Institute in Qualitative Research, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, July 24, 2013
2012 “Abstract Containers: a Ready-Made Architecture Exhibition,” by Mitch McEwen, Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ mitch-mcewen/abstract-containers-exhibit _b_1859000.html, Sept 7, 2012 “Latex Sculpture as Connective Tissue in St. Louis,” by Regina Martinez, Reblog Foundation, http://rebuild- foundation.org/blog/?p=1170, July 27, 2012 “In the Galleries – Social Dress St. Louis: Learning and Unlearning at CAM,” by Jessica Baran, Riverfront Times, June 28, 2012 “Takashi Horisaki presents Social Dress St. Louis at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis,” by Laura Elizabeth Barone, Temporary Art Review, http://temporaryartreview.com/takashi-horisaki- presents-social-dress-st-louis-learning-and- unlearning-at-the-contemporary-art-museum- st-louis/, July 3, 2012 “Personal Effects,” by Nina Horisaki-Christens, Art21 Guest Blog, http://blog.art21.org/2012/06/15/ personal-effects/, June 15, 2012 “Urban Social Network,” by Chennie Huang, CH Reviews, http://www.chenniehuang.com/2012/01/ urban-social-network_24.html,January 24, 2012
2011 “The Days of This Society Are Numbered,” by Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata, Brooklyn Rail, April 2011. “Planet of Slums,” by Jonathan T.D. Neil, Art “New York: SOHOの若い熱気が生み出す、「スラムの 惑星」展の秀逸,” by 藤森愛実、美術手帳 vol.63 n.949, March 2011, p.147 “Art Talk With Takashi Horisaki,” by Paulette Beete, ArtWorks (NEA Blog), http://www.arts.gov/artworks/ ?p=5426, Feb 1, 2011 “Takashi Horisaki’s Social Dress New Orleans: 730 Days After,” NEA Arts Magazine Web Feature, http:// www.nea.gov/about/NEARTS/2010_v4/webf/ horisaki/horisaki.html, Jan 2011
2010 “The Big Apple & The Big Easy: Trauma, Proximity, and Home in New (and Old) Media,” by Joy Fuqua, Old and New Media After Katrina, edited by Diane Negra. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010, pg 41-65. “An Upstate Tour: Public Art on the historic waterways of New York,” by Nadine Wasserman, Public Art Review vol. 22 n. 1, Issue 34, fall/winter 2010, pg. 50 “Ghosts of Disaster in New Orleans,” by Ian Epstein, Hyperallergic Online Magazine, October 8, 2010 “Eyes Forward,” by Jack Moran, ArtVoice vol. 9 num. 6, June 2010
2009 “An Interview with Horisaki Takashi”, Trenton Truitt, Eye-Ai Magazine, River Field, July 2009, pg. 32-35 “Art Project to Support New Orleans,” Trenton Truitt, Hiragana Times, March 2009, pg 33-35 “Being There,” Elizabeth Schambelan, Artforum, January 2009, pg. 175 “Desigualdad sin fronteras,” Ulrich Beck, Humboldt (published by Goethe-Institut), n.152, 2009, pg. 56-61 “ハリケーンから３年、ニューオリンズ初の国際展は 従事充実の出来映え,” by 藤森愛実、美術手帳 vol.61 n.917, January 2009, p.117
2008 Prospect.1 New Orleans [exhibition catalogue], ed. Dan Cameron. Brooklyn: Picturebox, 2008. “New Orleans Art Exhibition Aims to Help City Heal” Jeffrey Brown, PBS’s the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, December 15, 2008 “Kaleidoscopic Biennial for a Scarred City,” Roberta Smith, New York Times, November 3, 2008
2007 “New Orleans Ghost House,” Matthew Isreal, Art in America, October 2007, pg. 49 ” ‘Katrina’ House in Queens Brings Storm’s Devastation Home,” Trent Morse, Williamsburg Greenpoint News + Arts, Volume 1 Number 2, September 2007 “Meditations on New Orleans, two years after the storms,” Brian Chasnoff, San Antonio Express-News, August 24, 2007 “Household: Learning from Leaving New Orleans,” by Joy Fuqua, In Media Res, http://mediacommons.futureofthe book.org/imr/2007/08/17/household-learning-from- leaving-new-orleans, August 17, 2007 “Vulture: Art Candy: After the Flood,” Rachel Wolff, New York Magazine Online, August 8, 2007 “NOLA Comes to Queens,” Jason Rhein and Jocelyn Gonzales, Studio360, August 3, 2007 “Replica of Ruined N.O. Home Makes New York Debut,” Katy Reckdahl, New Orleans Times Picayune, July 30, 2007 “Takashi Horisaki’s ‘Social Dress New Orleans’ at the Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York,” Lupe Nunez-Fernandez, Saatchi Online, July 24, 2007 “In Hurricane Katrina’s Surreal Backwaters,” Bill Sasser, Salon News at salon.com, July 23, 2007 “This Old House,” Katy Reckdahl, New Orleans Times Picayune, July 12, 2007 “Preserving Katrina’s Wrath in a Latex Skin,” Cain Burdeau, Washington Post, July 9, 2007 “Sculptor Tries to Beat Bulldozers,”Seth Gilmore, New York Times, July 6, 2007 “Post-Katrina Mold,” D. Erik Bookhardt, Gambit Weekly, June 19, 2007 “Art for Our Sake,” Sarah Rich, worldchanging.com, June 10, 2007 “Art House Blues,” Katy Reckdahl with Doug MacCash and Michelle Krupa, New Orleans Times-Picayune, May 15, 2007
2004 “Second Skin,” David Bonetti, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 2, 2004 “Turfed Out,” Alison Oldham, Hampstead & Highgate Express, London, England, Nov. 15, 2004 “Gimme Some Skin,” Paul Friswold, Riverfront Times, September 1, 2004 “Current Shows,” Ivy Cooper, Riverfront Times, July 28, 2004 “Within/Without – artists working with the collection,” museum catalog, The Washington University Art Museum, St. Louis, MO April 2-18, 2004 “City Beat–St. Louis,” Joe Jancsurak, Art Business News, Dec. 1, 2004 “Elliot Review,” Elliot Review, WU student Union, Nov. 15, 2004 “You Are Here – Takashi Horisaki,” Rudy Zapf, Playback Magazine, Oct. 1, 2004 “20 – Elliot Smith Contemporary Anniversary Exhibition,” David Bonetti, St. Louis Post- Dispatch, Oct. 3rd, 2004 “Three Gallery Shows,” David Bonetti, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 18, 2004 |