NORMAL

- Akio Hato -
(Tokyo Japan)

Born in Ehime, Japan 1973
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan

Education

1995-1999
Tokyo National University of
Fine Arts & Music Bachelor of
Fine Art, 1999
1999-2001
Tokyo National University of
Fine Arts & Music Master of
Fine Art, 2001
2001
Tokyo National University of
Fine Arts & Music Doctoral student

Solo Exhibitions

1999
Akio Hato film works
Residents in My Dream
Ginza Gallery K, Tokyo
2001
Move memorial projects Part2
Akio Hato film works
Where the Dream is Art Gallery Kan,
Tokyo
2002
Akio Hato film works
Private Garden Studio J, Osaka
Akio Hato film works
Private Garden OFFICE M, Niigata
Akio Hato film works
The 6th Art Public Contest 2002
(Winner) GALLERY BEAUX, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions

1998
Nine Member exhibition
Meguro-Ku Museum of Art,
Kumin Gallery, Tokyo
Meeting exhibition Gallery
WEEDS & GOOD STUFF, Tokyo
1999
meeting exhibition 2
SOKO Gallery, Tokyo
2000
PHILIP MORRIS ART AWARD 2000
FINAL SELECTION Ebisu Garden Place,
Tokyo
2001
THE 6th GUNMA BIENNALE
for YOUNG ARTISTS
(First Prizewinner)
Gunma Museum of Modern Art
The 6th Art Public Contest 2002
(Winner of a jury prize)
Morris Gallery, Tokyo
The 3rd Bangkok Experimental
Film Festival Digit O, Bangkok
VIDEO NAVI EXHIBITION GALLERY ISEYOSHI,
Tokyo
2002
Ongoing: The 1st Quake Center
Planed Event Former
Mikawadai Junior High School, Tokyo
CAS Academy Awards CAS, Osaka &
TENT, Rotterdam, Netherlands
-SCRAMBLE-
Recent Japanese Video Works
London, England
NORMAL: Traveling Exhibition
SPICA MUSEUM, Tokyo
Studio J, Osaka
IZUTSUYA, Hiroshima
Co-operative Studio Warehouse No.3,
Fukuoka
Drawing Exhibition Art Gallery Kan,
Tokyo

Other Event

2000
ubique creators meeting,
Shibuya UPLINK FACTORY, Toky

Something that helps my soul, somewhere, someplace, something that we can only see with a momentary shift in our feelings, a slight sense of danger that hides in our life and some beautiful sensation that quickens my heart. All of these things happen without any warning. Surprise and desire dictate my mind. Imaginary world, sudden eruption of images, I slip into a strange world that exists between images and reality. Everything appears and disappears. The reality which is happening in front of me and the other reality which is happening inside my soul. Dream. Everything pays me a visit as they should and they leave as they should. I fight to preserve and to eternalize this temporary phenomenon and sensation. Do people see what I see? Do people feel what I feel? Do people suffer what I suffer? Do people enjoy what I enjoy? I believe in collective consciousness and existence.

Akio Hato