Naotaka Hiro (b. 1972 in Osaka, Japan) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Hiro received his BA from University of California, Los Angeles, in 1997, and MFA from California Institute of the Arts, in 2000. His work is in the collections of MoMA, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara; and many more.
Hiro’s work has also been exhibited at MOCA, Los Angeles; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena; LAXART, Los Angeles; Centre d’Art Contemporain, La Ferme du Buisson, France, among others. He is the recipient of grants and awards from the Art Matters Foundation and the Asian and Pacific Islander Artist Presenting Initiative.
Exhibitions

What It Becomes
24 Aug 2024 – 12 Jan 2025
Whitney Museum of American Art

Shadow Tracer: Works on Paper
9 Dec 2022 – 2 Apr 2023
Aspen Art Museum

New Abstracts: Recent Acquisitions
12 Nov 2022 – 29 May 2023
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Open Storage: 25 Years of Collecting
26 Aug 2022 – 29 Apr 2023
The Warehouse, Dallas, TX

Sand-Man
24 Jun – 26 Aug 2022
39 Walker

Green Door
6 Oct 2021 – 13 Nov 2022
Herald St.

Armor
29 May – 1 Aug 2021
The Box

In the Ravine
27 Oct – 24 Nov 2019
Misako & Rosen, Tokyo
