Kouji Hirato

Kouji Hirato (Japanese: 平戸 貢児 Hepburn: Hirato Kouji; born 1958) is a Japanese sculptor and a professor at Joshibi University of Art and Design.[1]

Biography

Hirato was born in Chiba Prefecture. He attended Chiba Prefectural Keikaku-dai High School, and then Tokyo University of the Arts, where he graduated from the sculpture major.[2]

In 1998, he opened HIRATO ATELIER, after working as a part-time lecturer at Chiba Institute of Technology from 1990-1998. He taught part-time at Tokyo University of the Arts from 1995-2001. In 2001 he became an assistant professor at the Joshibi University of Art and Design and was promoted to full professor in 2008. Since 2010, he's been the professor of Three-dimensional Art Department as well as the Director of Environmental Art Society.

He has completed numerous sculptural works centered on metals.

Major public exhibition / group exhibition 
  • 1984 - The 15th Japan International Art Exhibition Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Kyoto Art Museum
  • 1991 - LUNAMI SELECTION Lunami Gallery
  • 1994 - Contemporary Works' 94
  • 1995-1998 - Contemporary art exchange between Japan and France
  • 1997 - CHIBA ART FRASH` 97
  • 2000 - Skill / Takumi's pleasure
  • 2001 - Nippon Metal Artists' Exhibition
  • 2002 - SESSION 
  • 2002 - Four people's sculpture "Japanese fever heat vol -1"
  • 2004 - Three people's sculpture "Japan's Feverful Vol. 2"
  • 2005 - METALLIC PARTY 

Solo exhibition
  • 1983-1986, 1989, 1992 - UNTITLE
  • 1990 - From INSTALLATION to SCULPTURE
  • 1993 - LIFE-FORMS
  • 1994-1998 - SHAPES OF LIFE
  • 2001 - LIFE`S ORIGIN Metal Art Museum
  • 2007 - LIFE'S ORIGIN

References
  1. "Active Academy | 教員紹介". aa.joshibi.net. Retrieved 2018-11-07.
  2. "HIRATO Koji of AMABIKI". AMABIKI (in Japanese). Retrieved 2018-11-07.
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