Hiroki Otsuka

A professional comic book illustrator since 1994, Brooklyn based Japanese artist/illustrator Hiroki Otsuka honed his craft drafting and inking comic book cells for a variety of projects, and illustrated for a number of major Japanese publications through 2004. In 2005, Hiroki Otsuka's focus shifted from graphic to fine arts, working predominantly with traditional sumi ink used in Japanese calligraphy. Hiroki Otsuka's debut solo show at Brooklyn's Stay Gold Gallery in 2005 prompted The New Yorker to write that his works "push the populist youth quotient through the roof." Since then, his work has appeared in galleries throughout the United States and Japan, and has been featured in international art fairs in New York, Tokyo and Basel, Switzerland. He's been exhibited at major art institutions such as The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (Nothing Moments, 2007) and in academic settings such as Pittsburgh University Art Gallery (Making Faces: Depiction of Women in Japan from Edo to Today, 2009). In 2007, Hiroki Otsuka was featured in Japan Society's centennial exhibition Making a Home, curated by Eric C. Shiner, that highlighted 33 Japanese contemporary artists living and working in New York. Berlin's Kunstraum Richard Sorge he...

Selected Museum Exhibitions

2010 “Playboy Redux: Contemporary Artists Interpret the Iconic Playboy Bunny”, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
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2007 “Making a Home” Japan society, Manhattan, NY

2007 “Nothing Moments” Moca museum, LA
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Selected Solo Exhibition
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2009 “Everything to more”, Kunstraum Richard Sorge, Berlin, Germany

2008 “My childhood story”, Excy Laser Tokyo­, New York, NY
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2005 JAPORN "Celebrating Japanese pornographic comics", STUDIO CONNECT, Brooklyn, NY

2005 "HIROKI OTSUKA", Stay gold gallery, Brooklyn, NY

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Selected Group Exhibitions
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2013 "Adrift to Escape" 2AC gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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2009 "Making faces : Depiction of women in Japan from Edo to Today" university of Pittsburgh, PA

2007 Featured by MEM gallery at Asian Contemporary Art Fair, New York

2007 “YADOYA” yadoya gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2006 "The Outsider" Stay gold gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2006 "Fruitcake & Casserole" Stay gold gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2006 "Pleasure Little Treasure" Stay gold gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2006 Featured by Fredericks Freiser Gallery at Volta art fair in Basel, Switzerland

2006 Featured by Fredericks Freiser Gallery at the Armory Show, New York

2006 MOLESKI...