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 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・レジデンス招聘作家。
主な個展「Today is a better day」LIBRIS KOBACO 福岡 2020年。グループ展 「現実47」大分県立美術館 2022年、「都市の現像学」福岡アジア美術館 2024年、「Jogja Fotografis Festival」ジョグジャカルタ（インドネシア）など多数。
Exhibitions
2025 Time Crossing, Nekoze,Beppu, Japan
2024 If I wasn't born here, Art Space Karnel, Fukuoka. Japan
2024 Jogja Fotografis Festival,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, Berlin. Germany
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
2024 If I wasn't born here, Edition 61(Self Published in Japan)
2024 Side face of the city, Edition 51(Self Published in Japan)
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
2025 Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei
2024 Ruang Mes 56, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2023 Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka. Japan
2022 - 2024 Kiyoshima Apartment, Oita. Japan
Online Features
2019 KALTBLUT MAGAZINE(Berlin)
Public Collection
Maxbrown Hotel Ku'damm Berlin
Award and Grands
2025 The New Creators Grand Prix by Sony Photography Awards
2025 Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation for Arts and Culture
2023 Fukuoka Wall Art Project Excellence Award
2022 Fukuoka Wall Art Project Winning a Prize
2021 Fukuoka Wall Art Project Winning a Prize
Artist Talk
2025 Artist Talk at Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan
2024 Abstract Architecture Photography at CINE HUB, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2024 Artist Talk 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 at Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan
Lecture
2023 - Present Fukuoka Visual Arts Photography Course, Fukuoka, Japan
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