About

Hiroko Inoue is a contemporary artist of photography, installation and sculpture. Born in Osaka, educated in Osaka and Okinawa, she Iives and works in Japan and Germany. Her focus is on the interconnectedness of physical reality and cilvilization, and what place individuals and nature have in this tense relationship.

1998

Osaka Triennale, Düsseldorf City Special Award

1999

Osaka-Goethe-Düsseldorf Fellowship in Düsseldorf (Germany)

2000

»Counter Photography« – internationally touring exhibition organized by The Japan Foundation

2002

Live-Art Scholarship, Grand Prize

2005

Appointment as Special Adviser for Cultural Exchange by the Government of Japan in Vienna

2007

The Japanese-Austrian Committee for the 21 Century of 2007, MOFA

2007

Artist in Residence at Clemson University, South Carolina, U.S.A.

Hiroko Inoue is a Japanese visual artist, who lives and works in Japan and Germany.