Takashi Horisaki
education
M.F.A.2005 Studio Art – Sculpture May 2005
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
B.F.A. 2003 Studio Art – Sculpture & Digital Media emphasis
Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana
1997-2000 Urushi (Traditional Japanese Lacquer ware) apprentice
Under Nagatoshi Onishi, Professor Emeritus of Tokyo
National University of Fine Arts & Music
B.A. 1998 Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Major in Art History (Japanese Buddhist/Craft Art History)
exhibition history
2011 Abrons Arts Center, curated by Miguel Amado (upcoming)
2010 Planet of the Slums, Third Streaming, New York, NY
Regina Rex Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (two-person)
Planet of Slums, curated by LaToya Ruby Fazier and Omar Lopez-
Chahoud, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, NJ
Irrelevant: Local Emerging Asian Artists Who Don’t Make Art About
Being Asian, Arario Gallery, New York, NY
Social Dress Buffalo: The Past Reflecting the Future, Buffalo Arts
Center, NY (solo)
2009 Hanging out at ABC No Rio, curated by Erin Marie Sickler,
at ABC No Rio and Cuchfritos Gallery, New York, NY
The 21st Century, the Feminine Century, and The Century of Diversity
and Hope, curated by Heng-gil Han for the 2009 Incheon
Women Artists Biennale, Incheon, Korea
Forever Summer, Denise Bibro Fine Arts, New York, NY
Other, Other...High Visibility, curated by Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz,
Nathan Cummings Foundation Gallery, NY, NY
2008 Prospect.1 Biennial, curated by Dan Cameron,
New Orleans, LA
Carving the Coast, Southeastern Contemporary Art Gallery, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA (solo)
Metro Poles: Art in Action, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning in co-
operation with the Bronx River Arts Center, Queens, NY
2 Degrees. Weather, Man and his Climate, The German Hygiene-
Museum, Dresden, Germany
Say Goodbye to…, curated by Donna Harkavy and Marion Wilson,
Clifford Art Gallery at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
There is No Synonym for Hope, curated by Lauren Schell Dickens and Julie McKim, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
This Case of Conscience: Spiritual Flushing and the Remonstrance,
Queens Museum of Art, NY
Among the Ruins, Curated by Sarah Urist Green, Space 301 Off
Center, Mobile AL
2007 NYNYNY: So Nice We Named It Thrice, Flux Factory Inc, Queens,
NY
Social Dress New Orleans – 730 days after, Socrates Sculpture Park,
NY (commission - solo show)
2006 Down the Street and around the Corner, Flux Factory Inc, Queens,
NY
Listening – Living Art from Tokyo and San Francisco, The LAB Gallery,
SF, CA
Boomerang: Visual Arts Alumni Exhibition, Collins C. Diboll Art
Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2005 Invited, Emerging Artist Exhibition, Murray Guy, Chelsea, NY
Inaugural Exhibition, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Sculpture Exhibition, 2400 S. Jefferson, St. Louis, MO
2004 -Scope London Art Fair, London, England (Invitational)
Within/Without, Artists working with the Collection, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Birth Rite September 2004, solo performance, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Well Hung – Passport to Contemporary Art Exhibit, Critical Mass for Visual Arts Exhibition, The Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, MO (Juried)
Emerging Sculptors: Louisiana Student Exhibition, International Sculpture Center Annual Conference, Barriere Space, New Orleans, LA (Invitational)
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO (Invitational)
MFA School of Art Washington University Group Exhibition, Moreau Art Galleries at Saint Mary’s college, Notre Dame, IN
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Art…, group exhibition, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Art is Everything, group exhibition, SEEN Gallery Group, Fort Gondo Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1st year MFA Exhibition, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Vernacular, two person show, Fort Gondo Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2003 Righty Tighty Lefty Loosey group sculpture exhibition, St. Louis, MO
Scully Scholarship Winner Solo Exhibition, Dana Center Gallery,
New Orleans, LA
2002 7th Annual No Dead Artists: An Open Juried Exhibition of New Orleans Art Today, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1st Annual Tennessee Williams Visual Arts Juried Exhibition,
New Orleans, LA
Loyola Annual Juried Student Show, New Orleans, LA
(1st Place Award)
grants/awards
2010-11 POLA Art Foundation Emerging Artist Research Grant, Japan
2008 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency Recipient,
NYC, NY
Urban Artist Initiative/New York City Fellowship Recipient, NYC, NY
2007 Open Space Program Commission from Socrates Sculpture Park,
NYC, NY
2004-5 Recipient of Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture, Dedalus Foundation, Inc. NYC, NY
Nominated for 2004 Outstanding Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, NJ
2003 School of Art Scholarship, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Nominated for 2003 Outstanding Achievement in Contemporary
Sculpture Award, International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, NJ
2002 Nominated for 2002 Outstanding Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, NJ
lecture
2008 Pratt Institute, Visiting Artist Lecture and Studio Visits, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Radio interview on WTUL, New Orleans, LA
2005 Webster University, Visiting Artist, St. Louis, MO
Washington University in St. Louis, Lacquer Arts lecturer for Asian Arts: Ancient Worlds to Contemporary Practice Art History class, St. Louis, MO
2004 Loyola University New Orleans, Visiting Artist, LA
bibliography
2011 “Planet of Slums,” by Jonathan T.D. Neil, Art Review Issue 48,
March 2011, p. 128
“New York: SOHOの若い熱気が生み出す、「スラムの惑星」展の秀逸,”
by 藤森愛実、美術手帳 vol.63 n.949, March 2011, p.147
“Art Talk With Takashi Horisaki,” by Paulette Beete, ArtWorks
(NEA Blog), http://www.arts.gov/artworks/?p=5426, Feb 1, 2011
“Takashi Horisaki’s Social Dress New Orleans: 730 Days After,” NEA Arts
Magazine Web Feature, http://www.nea.gov/about/NEARTS/
v2010_v4/webf/horisaki/horisaki.html, Jan 2011
2010 “An Upstate Tour: Public Art on the historic waterways of New York,"
by Nadine Wasserman, Public Art Review vol. 22 n. 1, Issue 34,
fall/winter 2010, pg. 50
“Ghosts of Disaster in New Orleans,” by Ian Epstein, Hyperallergic
Online Magazine, October 8, 2010
“Eyes Forward,” by Jack Moran, ArtVoice vol. 9 num. 6, June 2010
2009 "An Interview with Horisaki Takashi," Trenton Truitt, Eye-Ai Magazine,
River Field, July 2009, pg. 32-35
“Art Project to Support New Orleans,” Trenton Truitt, Hiragana Times,
March 2009, pg 33-35
“Being There,” Elizabeth Schambelan, Artforum, January 2009, pg. 175
“Desigualdad sin fronteras,” Ulrich Beck, Humboldt (published by
Goethe-Institut), n.152, 2009, pg. 56-61
“ハリケーンから３年、ニューオリンズ初の国際展は従事充実の出来映え、”
by 藤森愛実、美術手帳 vol.61 n.917, January 2009, p.117
2008 Prospect.1 New Orleans [exhibition catalogue], ed. Dan Cameron,
Brooklyn: Picturebox, 2008.
“New Orleans Art Exhibition Aims to Help City Heal” Jeffrey Brown,
PBS’s the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, December 15, 2008
“Kaleidoscopic Biennial for a Scarred City,” Roberta Smith, New York
Times, November 3, 2008
2007 "New Orleans Ghost House," Matthew Isreal, Art in America, October
2007, pg. 49
" 'Katrina' House in Queens Brings Storm's Devastation Home," Trent
Morse, Williamsburg Greenpoint News + Arts, Volume 1 Number
2, September 2007
"Meditations on New Orleans, two years after the storms," Brian
Chasnoff, San Antonio Express-News, August 24, 2007
"Vulture: Art Candy: After the Flood," Rachel Wolff, New York
Magazine Online, August 8, 2007
"NOLA Comes to Queens," Jason Rhein and Jocelyn Gonzales,
Studio360, August 3, 2007
"Replica of Ruined N.O. Home Makes New York Debut," Katy
Reckdahl, New Orleans Times Picayune, July 30, 2007
"Takashi Horisaki's 'Social Dress New Orleans' at the Socrates
Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York," Lupe Nunez-
Fernandez, Saatchi Online, July 24, 2007
"In Hurricane Katrina's Surreal Backwaters," Bill Sasser, Salon News
at salon.com, July 23, 2007
"This Old House," Katy Reckdahl, New Orleans Times Picayune, July
12, 2007
"Preserving Katrina's Wrath in a Latex Skin," Cain Burdeau,
Washington Post, July 9, 2007
"Sculptor Tries to Beat Bulldozers,"Seth Gilmore, New York Times,
July 6, 2007
"Post-Katrina Mold," D. Erik Bookhardt, Gambit Weekly, June 19,
2007
"Art for Our Sake," Sarah Rich, worldchanging.com, June 10, 2007
"Art House Blues," Katy Reckdahl with Doug MacCash and Michelle
Krupa, New Orleans Times-Picayune, May 15, 2007
2004 “Second Skin,” David Bonetti, Post-Dispatch, September 2, 2004
“Turfed Out,” Alison Oldham, Hampstead & Highgate Express,
London, England, Nov. 15, 2004
“Gimme Some Skin,” Paul Friswold, Riverfront Times,
September 1, 2004
“Current Shows,” Ivy Cooper, Riverfront Times, July 28, 2004
“Within/Without – artists working with the collection,” museum catalog, The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO April 2-18, 2004
“City Beat–St. Louis,” Joe Jancsurak, Art Business News,
Dec. 1, 2004
“Elliot Review,” Elliot Review, WU student Union, Nov. 15, 2004
“You Are Here – Takashi Horisaki,” Rudy Zapf, Playback,
Oct. 1, 2004
“20 – Elliot Smith Contemporary Anniversary Exhibition,” David Bonetti, Post-Dispatch, Oct. 3rd, 2004
“Three Gallery Shows,” David Bonetti, Post-Dispatch, July 18, 2004
“Feature Alumni,” Earl Descant, Loyola University New Orleans Magazine, Summer 2004
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