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About

Tomohiro Hanada  

Born in Fukuoka, Japan

Lives and Works in Fukuoka, Japan

Tomohiro Hanada (1986) is a Japanese visual artist working with photography as a tool to reflect and deconstruct the invisible in visible. His artistic practice is deeply rooted in personal experience, based on observation, exploration and questioning of the extraordinary that emerges from the ordinary.

 

Moving between familiar and unfamiliar, Hanada continually investigates the possibilities of photography, layering reality and abstraction. Memory and emotions play an important role in the creative process, and intuition and calculation make up his photographs. His creative philosophy aims to challenge the suspension of thought caused by daily routines and to shed light on the overlooked in everyday life.

 

Hanada is a graduate from the Neue Schule Für Fotografie in Berlin, Germany and the Omura Beauty Fashion College in Fukuoka, Japan. Before moving towards photography and visual art, he has worked in New York and London as a fashion designer’s assistant and stylist. After living abroad for 10 years, He moved to Fukuoka Prefecture, where He was born and raised in 2019, and moved into the Art Residence Kiyoshima Apartment, Beppu, Japan in 2022. 

Invited artist in residence at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, 2023. Major solo exhibitions include ”Today is a Better Day”, LIBRIS KOBACO, Fukuoka 2020, Selected Group exhibition ”現実 47”, Oita Prefectural Art Museum, 2022 ”Urban Phenomenology” Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, 2024. 

花田智浩(1986年福岡県飯塚市出身)

花田智浩は、写真をツールとして、目に見えるものの中にある見えないものを映し出し、再構築することに取り組んでいるビジュアルアーティストです。彼の芸術活動は、個人的な経験に深く根ざしており、観察、探求、日常から生まれる非日常なものへの疑問に基づいています。

 

慣れ親しんだものとそうでないものの間を行き来しながら、花田は現実と抽象を重ね合わせ、写真の可能性を追求し続けています。創作の過程では、記憶と感情が重要な役割を果たし、直観と計算が彼の写真を構成します。彼の創造的な哲学は、生活ルーテインによって引き起こされる思考の停止に疑問を投げかけ、日常生活の中で見過ごされているものに光を当てることを目的としています。

 

大村美容ファッション専門学校を卒業後、NYへ渡る。ファッションデザイナーのアシスタントを経験後、ロンドンにてファッションスタイリストとして活動する。 2015年、ベルリン写真専門学校Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin入学。卒業後より、フリーランスフォトグラファーとしてベルリンを拠点に活動。10年の海外生活を終えて、2019年より生まれ育った福岡に拠点を変える。2022年大分県別府市のアーティストインレジデンス清島アパート入居。2023年福岡アジア美術館アーティストインレジデンスレジデンス招聘作家。主な個展「Today is a better day」LIBRIS KOBACO 福岡 2020。グループ展 「現実47」大分県立美術館 2022。「Urban Phenomenology」福岡アジア美術館 2024など多数。現在、福岡を拠点に活動中

Exhibitions

2024  Jogja Fotografis Festival 2024,Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2024  Urban Phenomenology, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum,Fukuoka, Japan

2024  Urban Phenomenology, Artist Cafe Fukuoka Ground Studio, Fukuoka, Japan

2024「都市への眼差し」2023清島アパート成果展, Transit, Oita, Japan

2023  Fukuoka Contemporary Arts Exhibition, Fukuoka Daimaru, Fukuoka Japan

2023  Art Fair Beppu, Kiyoshima Apart, Oita, Japan

2023  Fukuoka Wall Art Project, Artist Cafe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Japan

2023  Archibaco, Empty Japanese House, Fukuoka, Japan

2023  こんにちは清島アパートです, Transit, Oita. Japan

2022  現実47, Oita Prefecture Art Museum, Oita. Japan

2022  ARTS/WORKS FAIR in Beppu, Doma-commons.Oita. Japan

2022  Distance, Rotterdam Photo Festival, Selected Photographer. Rotterdam

2020  Today is a better day, LIBRIS KOBACO, Fukuoka. Japan

2020  My self, Thec, Fukuoka. Japan

2019  Car Reflection, Iizuka Community Center, Fukuoka. Japan

2019  Funf, SoundM's, Okinawa, Japan

2018  A Matter of Reflection, CHI&CO, BerlinGermany

2016  Step In, Neue Schule Fotografie, Berlin. Germany

2015  Self Portrait, Neue Schule Fotografie, Berlin. Germany

2015  Don’t be serious, vétomat, Berlin. Germany

Book

2023  別府-Beppu, Edition 88(Self Published in Japan)

2023  跡-Ato, Edition 46(Self Published in Japan)

2023  Untitled, Edition 86(Self Published in Japan)

2022  間 Published by DW B (Belgium)

2022  松 (Pijnboomheuvel) (with written by Jan Lauwereyns)  (Self Published) Edition 38

2020  Today is a better day (Self Published in Japan)

2020  Car Reflection  (Self Published in Japan)

2019  NEW JAPAN PHOTO 9 (Participated"Printed Matter’s 2019" NY Art Book Fair at MOMA PS1)

2019  NEW JAPAN PHOTO 7 (Selected 100 Japanese fresh photographers)

Residencies

2024 Ruang Mes 56, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2023 Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka. Japan

2022 - 2024 Kiyoshima Apartment, Oita. Japan

Online Features

2022 DW B (Belgium)

2019 KALTBLUT MAGAZINE(Berlin)

2019 Plain Magazine(Paris)

2018 DER GREIF(Berlin)

2018 PiB Berlin(Berlin)

Public Collection

Maxbrown Hotel Ku'damm Berlin

Award

Fukuoka Wall Art Project Excellence Award 2023

Fukuoka Wall Art Project Winning a Prized  2022

Fukuoka Wall Art Project Winning a Prized  2021

Artist  Talk

2024  Abstract Architecture Photography at CINE HUB, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2024  Artist Talk Tomohiro Hanada at Ruang Mes 56, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2024  Tenjin Observation at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

2024  Asian Art Museum Artist Residency kick off talk at Artist Cafe, Fukuoka, Japan

2023  Artist Talk Tomohiro Hanada at Kyushu  sangyo university, Fukuoka, Japan

Lecture

2023 - Present Kyushu Visual Arts Photography Course, Fukuoka, Japan

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