NIIZEKI Hiromi  ( NIIZEKI is Family name)

Born in Kanagawa prefecture, raised in Tokyo, Japan. Lived and worked in Queens, New York, since 1988.

Education:  Musashino Art University. Major: Painting, Art Education. Tokyo, Japan.

 

Exhibitions : Solo Show:

2016   GumHearts, Kensscratch, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, Aug 14-29

2015-Present Gum Store, On going, Usable Art project, November 2015-, New York, Tokyo, Yokohama, Japan.

2014   Loves, Participatory Installation, Flushing Library, Queens( Apr 23 - August 30

　　　Loves, Maple Grove Cemetery, Queens(Feb 14-Mar 31)

           Loves, Fabio Scalia Art Space, Brooklyn, New York (Jan 6 -Feb 28)

2013   POKETTO, Participatory Installation, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York(Apr-Jun)

           POKETTO, Governors Island, New York, NY.(Jul-Sep)

2011   POKETTO, Participatory Installation, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York(Apr-Jun)

           POKETTO, Governors Island, New York(July-Sep)

2010   My Garden, Installation, George Billis Gallery, New York

2005   Rolls, Participatory Installation, George Billis Gallery, New York

           Botan, Installation, George Billis Gallery LA, Los Angels, CA.

2003   MokoMoko Windows, Installation, George Billis Gallery, New York

2001   Windows, Installation, Cave Art Space, Brooklyn

           My Living room, Installation, Highways Performance and Arts, Los Angels, CA.

           My Bedroom, Participatory Installation, George Billis Gallery, New York

1999   The Picnic, Participatory Installation, George Billis Gallery, New York

           Water, Participatory Installation, Cave Art Space, Brooklyn

1997   Balls, Participatory Installation, George Billis Gallery, New York

           My Back Yard, Participatory Installation, Ernest Rubinstein Gallery, New York

           Scaffolding, Participatory Installation , CAVE Art Space, Brooklyn

1986   Red, Installation, Gallery SOGO, Curated by Sonomi Miyazawa ,Yokohama, Japan.

1985   Niizeki Hiromi, Art Space 88 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

 

Invitational Exhibitions at Art Fairs:

2017   MokoMoko Windows, ICFF NYC 2107, Jacob k.Javits Convention Center, New York, NY. (May 20-24)

　　　MokoMoko Windows, Art on Paper NY 2017, Pier 36, New York, NY. (Mar 2-5)

　　　POKETTO, Williamsburg Art Festival, Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn NY.(Jun 10-11)

2016   Internet Yami-ichi in NY2, organized by Exonemo/IDPW, Knockdown Center, Maspeth, NY.

　　　POKETTO, Out In The Street, Vander Ende-Onderdonk House, Brooklyn, NY. (July 16-17)

2011  Gum Garden, Participatory Installation, Wynwood Art Fair, Miami, FL.

2008   MokoMoko Shopping Bags/Gon, Installation, Entrance Lobby, Red Dot Art Fair, New York

2007   MokoMoko Windows, Installation, Entrance Lobby, Red Dot Art Fair, New York

2005   Rolls, Participatory Installation , AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York

2004   Balls, Windows, Installation, Entrance Lobby, AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York

2003   MokoMoko Windows, Installation, AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York

2002   Windows, Installation, Entrance Lobby, AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York

 

Group Shows:

2017   Dwelling with Thousands Windows, Queens Art Intervention 2017, Queens Museum, NY.(Dec-Jan2018)

　　　Dwelling with Thousands Windows, Queens Art Intervention 2017, Murray's Park, LIC, NY. (Sep)

2016   GumHearts Shirts-Bags, Corona, Jackson Heights/Queens Art Intervention, NY. (Sep 10&17)

2015   Salonukah, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.(Dec)

　　　Sky, Installation, Gantry Plaza State Park, LIC/Queens Art Intervention2016, NY.(Sep 19)

2014   Loves, Installation, “I Live Here” at Lemmerman Gallery, New Jersey City University, NJ. (Nov.3-Dec.17)

           Poketto, Participatory Installation, Kaufman Astoria Studios/Queens Art Intervention, NY. (Sep)

           LOVES, “Transforming NYC Street Objects”, conjunction with the SITE95, Lodge Gallery, New York, NY.

2011  Windows, Poketto, Arts for Peace: With One Accord, United Church on the Green, New Haven, CT.

2008  Windows, “IT’S GETTING HOT IN HERE”, Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT.

          Windows, Installation, “IT’S GETTING HOT IN HERE”, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA.

          Pockets, Installation, “5x4=20”, Children’s Museum of the Arts 20th Anniversary, New York, NY.

2007  MokoMoko Shopping Bag-Street Vendor Style, “The Field”, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica, NY.

2006  MokoMoko Windows, Extreme Materials, Memorial Art Gallery, The University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

2004  Fresh Assortment, George Billis Gallery, New York

2003  Round, George Billis Gallery, New York

2002  Maru, Installation, Hybrid, Curated by Lily Faust and E.K.Clark, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY.

          Windows, Installation, Obsessive Vision, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

2000  Windows, Installation, Apt3F, Curated by Mihee Ahn, Asian American Art Centre, New York

          Balls, Participatory Installation, Elements 2000, HEREArt New York

1999  Super Hiromi, Participatory Installation, 9th Annual, Asian American Art Centre, New York

1998  Suspended Balls, Installation, Materialism, The Art Store, New York, NY.

          10 Women, George Billis Gallery, New York

           Suspended Balls, Installation, The Art Exchange, George Billis Gallery, New York

           Women Against Violence, National Museum of Art, Johannesburg, South Africa.

1997  Tape/Victoria’s Secret, Art Garden, Touhan Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan.

1996  Suspended Balls, Installation, The Modern Landscape, The Queens Library Gallery, Jamaica, NY.

          Tape/Victoria’s Secret, Crest Hard Ware Store, Brooklyn, NY.

          Tape/Victoria’s Secret, Blue Collar Pop at A True Value, Annapolis, MD.

1995  Shelf, Installation, Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York

1994  Suspended Balls, Installation, Front Window, Children’s Museum of The Arts, New York

          Small Works, Washington Square East Gallery, New York

 

Fellowship/Award :

Jury Award, Transforming Street Objects:From Your Street to Main Street by Kimberly Marrero, Feb. 2016

Artist Summer Institute, Governors Island, Creative Capital&Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Aug.5-9, 2015

Studio Program, Children’s Museum of the Arts New York, Governors Island,  July - October, 2010

Residency Program, The Clock Tower Gallery, P.S.1, New York, NY. November, 1995

 

Selected Public Commissions/Collections:

Take Shape, Permanent Collection, Palo Alto Junior Museum, Palo Alto, CA. 2001

Kiosk, Children's Museum of the Arts, New York 1998

Progressive, New York

Swiss Re, New York

 

Publications:

・7 Artists to Watch This December,Yvonne Shortt/Queens Museum, Artspace, Dec.15, 2017

・Annual Queens Art Intervention takes borough by storm by Tammy Scileppi, TimesLedger , Oct.5. 2017 Illus 

・Site95.org Jurnal Issue Volume 3 Issue 2,2014. p12-13.Illus.

・Participatly GumHearts Installation, Shukan New York Seikatu, May 10th, 2014, p28.Illus. in Japanese

・Art of GumHearts at Cemetery, Shukan New York Seikatu, March 15th, 2014 #482 p11.Illus. in Japanese

・LOVES-GumHearts, Shukan New York Seikatu, March 1, 2014, p25. in Japanese

・NHK/Japan National Broadcasting, BS1 News “World Wave Morning 7AM: “@NYC” On-Aired Feb 14, 2014.

・micadesign,  Illus. published in Italian.

・LOVES | Heart-Shaped Discarded Gum Transformed Into Works of Art, Spoon and Tamago Jan.28, 2014 Illus. 

 ・When Art Meets Crowdfunding, Rest&Create, Feb 6th, 2014. Illus. Published in English

・Solent News by Harriet Marsh 2014. news@solentnews.co.uk

・Featured in Esquire Kazakhstan, Feb 14, 2014. Illus. http://esquire.kz/photo/491

・Magazine “friday” in Zurich / Switzerland.#6 2014. Page12 ,Illus. in German.

・ARTTALK, by Trent Morse, ARTnews, September 2011 issue.p42.

・Happening In Wynwood, by Al Diaz, The Miami Herald, Oct.21, 2011. p3B. Illus. 

・Interactive Art Connecting US and Japan, by Komi Kaoru, The New York Seikatsu, July 2, 2011 p19.I llus.

・IT'S GETTING HOT IN HERE exhibit catalogue, Montserrat College of Art/Eastern Connecticut State University, February, 2008, p5, p7. Illus.

・The New York Sun, April 7 2003, pg.20,illus.

・Hybrid by Elle Can, NYArts Magazine, May 2002 issue, pg. 20

 ・Hybrid, by Michael Macinnis, The New York Art World Magazine, May 2002 issue 14, Illus.

・Elements 2000, by Yuriko Yamaki, Esquire/Japan, April 2000 issue, Illus.

・Elements 2000, by Joel Silverstein, Review Magazine, March 1 issue, 2000, p27-29

・Apartment 3F, by Holland Cotter, New York Times, March 31, 2000, pE36

・A Kinetic Moment For Asian Art, by Holland Cotter, New York Times, March 24, 2000, pE40

・Participatory Works:Viewers as Co-Creators, by Jane Ingram Allen, Sculpture Magazine, p73-75. illus. Jan.2000

・Le Dejeuner sur l’Asto Turf, by Stuart Ferguson, The Wall Street Journal, pW11, June 4, 1999. Illus.

・Art’s Report from New York, by Miyako Yoshinaga, Monthly Art p144-145, Sep/1999 illus.

・The Art of Refuse, by Bruce Bauman, dArt International, p43, Spring/Summer Issue, 1999

・Pick 3, by Samantha Nelson, Waterfront Week, p10, Volume 9.14/July 15, 1999

・Around World: New York, by Kunie Sugiura, BT, p171, Feb/98, Tokyo. Illus.

・360° New York, by Gen Hikage, Monthly Gallery , p92-93, Jan/98, Tokyo. Illus.

・Attached to Discarded Materials, by Watanabe Hamako, Yomiuri America, May 21,1999

・It’s Art, But Is It Landscape?, by Jean Rollan, Newsday, p.A35, August 9,1996, New York. Illus.

・JIRAIYA #13:1993, #17:1994, #20:1996, Published by Keiko Fukuma, Tokyo. Illus.