MAHO HIKINO is a video artist born in Hyogo Japan. Her B.A. in Liberal Arts was received from Doshisha Women's College, Kyoto in 2008 and
earned a Master of Arts degree from Tama Art University, Tokyo in 2010. Subsequent to that She lived and worked in Tokyo, produced video installation, short film, animation and art project. And she moved to New York City in 2013 for working and exhibition her-self art project.
She made a Japanese artist collective; ART BEASTIES(http://artbeasties.com/) in NYC 2013. Through hosting pop-up show and curating an online registrar of Japanese artists, seeks to broaden and deepen the understanding of contemporary Japanese art to an international audience.
Statement:
I present new possibilities of what a painting can be by the video installation series: "MIRROR" from 2007.
Recently, "MIRROR#6" was exhibited at March 2014, Brooklyn Fire Proof. I apply paint to the surface of a mirror and mix, drips, wobbles, and fluid. In mirror, and I take it in the video. Projecting the movie on hanging a light semitransparent fabric in gallery space. Paints on the screen change the color and pattern just like a living thing according to minimal music.
While process of a painter faces to his/her works and makes a painting, it has momentary ecstasy, strain, distress…wave of emotion never overdue. A tense atmosphere can be felt everywhere in his/her canvas immediately.
Also "MIRROR" reflects the act of the self-pursuit which is in unconscious inside, and changes the color and form from moment to moment, moreover the old frame of art. On "MIRROR" it outcomes a eternal and frail beauty that paint have itself, and flow of emotion of me and viewers. What do you find out in your "MIRROR"?
I want to catch beauty that originally exist in the world, its such as the textures, motions. and memory. These things must be change and lost. All sensation, all emotion, all lovers, we hope to cherish these things forever, but disappeared without our noticing in no time at all.
Since I was a child, the vague fear that everything might be lost was in my mind. I wanted everything in the world preserve the status quo. Also I Knew, everything is changing and there are absolutely no permanent things.
Through Art ("Geijutsu"), I pursuit the appetite for the truth.
Why we must be here? Why I cling to something in the world where everything will go and be lost?
Art, its only way to believe there is give us the answer in. Because my Art pieces based on the appetite to seek the truth and expression it.
"We have art in order not to die of the truth." Friedrich Nietzsche
Solo Exhibition :
2015
"Seeds program 12th: HIKINO MAHO Solo Exhibition, Dream Drawing" (Sukiwa Gallery/Tokyo)
2012
"HIKINO MAHO Solo Exhibition"(The Art complex Center of Tokyo /Tokyo)
"MIRROR"(Pepper's Gallery/Tokyo)
2011
"HIKINO MAHO Video Exhibition"(double tall cafe Shibuya /Tokyo)
"MIRROR: HIKINO MAHO Video Art Exhibition"(Gallery cafe bar [enyen] /Tokyo)
2009
"MIRROR#2~chilll out"(Pepper's Gallery/Tokyo)
2008
"MIRROR#2"(Shinjuku Ganka garou /Tokyo)
2007
"Drawing Piano"(AD&A gallery /Osaka)
ART BEASTIES Exhibition (Organize and Show) :
2018
"Butterfly Flutter – Time Difference 時差 vol.3 New York-Seattle-London-Tokyo"（Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum /Tokyo)
"IN THE SHADOW OF OLMPUS" (SOIL Gallery /Seattle)
2016
"Time Difference 時差 vol.2 New York-Seattle-Tokyo-Kobe" (Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art /Hyogo)
2015
"Time Difference 時差: Seattle–New York–Tokyo" (SOIL Gallery /Seattle)
"Art Beasties: Japanese Artist Collective Pop-Up Exhibition"（Prole Drift Gallery /Seattle)
2014
"ART BEASTIES 1st Anniversary!!! Open Studio" (Dumbo Arts Festival 2014 /NY)
"Fluid Destination -ART BEASTIES EXHIBITION"（Culturefix /NY)
"ART BEASTIES EXHIBITION"（Brooklyn Fire Proof /NY)
Selected Exhibition:
2016
"KONICA MINOLTA Social design award 2016" (KONICA MINOLTA plaza /Tokyo)
“Ugoku ten 2nd”(Cinema maebashi / Gunma)
"Noseden Art Line cafe", artist talk（Aste Citizen’s plaza）
2015
"Noseden Art Line myoken-no-mori 2015 (Art Biennale, 90days)" (Wedge Gellry and Kawanishi Citizen’s Gallery /Hyogo, Japan)
"NyamaNyama @Salle de Ciné" (Theater in Diébougou /Burkina Faso,West Africa)
2014
"J_ART 4th" (Williamsburg Art & Historical Center /NY)
2012
"J_ART 2ND" (Williamsburg Art & Historical Center /NY)
"ARTLABO X 2012"（The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo /Tokyo)
2011
"ART STYLING with NOS AoyamaⅥ" (NOS Aoyama /Tokyo)
"Holiday Vol.6" (Gallery KINGYO/Tokyo)
2010
"Tama Art University & Universität der Künste Berlin Exhibition" (Gallery LE DECO /Tokyo)
"Degree show 2014/ Master's Degree Program" (Tama Art University/Tokyo)
"Holiday Vol.5" (Gallery KINGYO/Tokyo)
2009
"IDD TAMACOM'09 - Thinking Bubbles -" (Bank ART Studio NYK/Yokohama)
"ART & DESIGN CRITIQUES in TOKYO 2009" (Tama Art University/Tokyo)
"Cross×Counter vol.3"(Kichijyouji WAPP/Tokyo)
"TOKYO SCREENING -Japanese Emerging Artists' Video Art Exhibition" (Monkey Town and About Floor/NY)
2007
“Koto to Koto no Aida” (msc Gallery, Kyoto)
2006
“Sanjo-Akarikeshiki” (Project for Takase river, Kyoto)
”彩〜primary colors” (Doshisya Rohm Plaza, Kyoto)
“Kotonoha hirari” (Kansai Research Establishment, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute/ Kyoto)
“Kotonoha hirari” (Keihanna international forum / Kyoto)
Books:
2016 “Time Difference 時差 vol.2 New York-Seattle-Tokyo-Kobe”, Art Beasties Publications
2015 “Noseden Art Line myoken-no-mori 2015”, Noseden Art Line myoken-no-mori 2015 executive committee
2010 "ARTBOX Vol.8 Contemporary-Artist File Contemporary ART", ISBN 978-4-87298-848-2, Art Box International
2010 "Hyper Art Catalogue", Tama Art University
Prize:
2016 "KONICA MINOLTA Social design award 2016"
2015 "Noseden Art Line myoken-no-mori 2015" the Public art selection
2010 "MIRROR#4"ARTLABO X 2012 Contest, Last Nomination
2010 "MIRROR#3"16th Student CG Contest, Last Nomination
2008 "MIRROR#2"6th North Shinano Obuse Film Festival and 60-Second Cinema Competition
2007 "MIRROR" Art & Technology Northeast 2007,Special Jury Prize
Media:
2018 Web site “the stranger”, Recommended by Joule Zelman, https://www.thestranger.com/events/25546927/in-the-shadow-of-olympus
2016 Web magazine "ethica", http://www.ethica.jp/25984/
2016 PARCO "Booster", https://www.booster-parco.com/project/56
2014 Web site “Bushwick Daily” listed as one of 5 best shows in Bushwick
2016. 6. 01 Japanese newspaper "Senken Shinbun",Japan
2016. 5. 19 Japanese newspaper "Kobe Shinbun",Japan
2016. 5. 07 Japanese newspaper "Shukan NY Seikatu",NY
2015. 3. 27 Japanese newspaper "Yomi Time",NY
2016. 1. 30 Web site "ethica" http://www.ethica.jp/25984/
2015. 3. 10 Japanese newspaper “Soy Sauce”, Seattle
2014. 9. 20 Japanese newspaper "Shukan NY Seikatu",NY
2014. 3. 15 Japanese newspaper "Shukan NY Seikatu",NY
2014. 1. 30 Web site “Bushwick Daily” listed as one of 5 best shows in Bushwick
http://bushwickdaily.com/bushwick/categories/arts-and-culture/1993-bushwick-is-the-right-place-for-art-6-must-see-art-shows-this-weekend
2014. 1. 24 Japanese newspaper "Yomi Time"
2014. 1. 24 Japanese newspaper "NY E Japion"
2014. 1. 11 Japanese newspaper "Shukan NY Seikatu"
earned a Master of Arts degree from Tama Art University, Tokyo in 2010. Subsequent to that She lived and worked in Tokyo, produced video installation, short film, animation and art project. And she moved to New York City in 2013 for working and exhibition her-self art project.
She made a Japanese artist collective; ART BEASTIES(http://artbeasties.com/) in NYC 2013. Through hosting pop-up show and curating an online registrar of Japanese artists, seeks to broaden and deepen the understanding of contemporary Japanese art to an international audience.
Statement:
I present new possibilities of what a painting can be by the video installation series: "MIRROR" from 2007.
Recently, "MIRROR#6" was exhibited at March 2014, Brooklyn Fire Proof. I apply paint to the surface of a mirror and mix, drips, wobbles, and fluid. In mirror, and I take it in the video. Projecting the movie on hanging a light semitransparent fabric in gallery space. Paints on the screen change the color and pattern just like a living thing according to minimal music.
While process of a painter faces to his/her works and makes a painting, it has momentary ecstasy, strain, distress…wave of emotion never overdue. A tense atmosphere can be felt everywhere in his/her canvas immediately.
Also "MIRROR" reflects the act of the self-pursuit which is in unconscious inside, and changes the color and form from moment to moment, moreover the old frame of art. On "MIRROR" it outcomes a eternal and frail beauty that paint have itself, and flow of emotion of me and viewers. What do you find out in your "MIRROR"?
I want to catch beauty that originally exist in the world, its such as the textures, motions. and memory. These things must be change and lost. All sensation, all emotion, all lovers, we hope to cherish these things forever, but disappeared without our noticing in no time at all.
Since I was a child, the vague fear that everything might be lost was in my mind. I wanted everything in the world preserve the status quo. Also I Knew, everything is changing and there are absolutely no permanent things.
Through Art ("Geijutsu"), I pursuit the appetite for the truth.
Why we must be here? Why I cling to something in the world where everything will go and be lost?
Art, its only way to believe there is give us the answer in. Because my Art pieces based on the appetite to seek the truth and expression it.
"We have art in order not to die of the truth." Friedrich Nietzsche
Solo Exhibition :
2015
"Seeds program 12th: HIKINO MAHO Solo Exhibition, Dream Drawing" (Sukiwa Gallery/Tokyo)
2012
"HIKINO MAHO Solo Exhibition"(The Art complex Center of Tokyo /Tokyo)
"MIRROR"(Pepper's Gallery/Tokyo)
2011
"HIKINO MAHO Video Exhibition"(double tall cafe Shibuya /Tokyo)
"MIRROR: HIKINO MAHO Video Art Exhibition"(Gallery cafe bar [enyen] /Tokyo)
2009
"MIRROR#2~chilll out"(Pepper's Gallery/Tokyo)
2008
"MIRROR#2"(Shinjuku Ganka garou /Tokyo)
2007
"Drawing Piano"(AD&A gallery /Osaka)
ART BEASTIES Exhibition (Organize and Show) :
2018
"Butterfly Flutter – Time Difference 時差 vol.3 New York-Seattle-London-Tokyo"（Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum /Tokyo)
"IN THE SHADOW OF OLMPUS" (SOIL Gallery /Seattle)
2016
"Time Difference 時差 vol.2 New York-Seattle-Tokyo-Kobe" (Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art /Hyogo)
2015
"Time Difference 時差: Seattle–New York–Tokyo" (SOIL Gallery /Seattle)
"Art Beasties: Japanese Artist Collective Pop-Up Exhibition"（Prole Drift Gallery /Seattle)
2014
"ART BEASTIES 1st Anniversary!!! Open Studio" (Dumbo Arts Festival 2014 /NY)
"Fluid Destination -ART BEASTIES EXHIBITION"（Culturefix /NY)
"ART BEASTIES EXHIBITION"（Brooklyn Fire Proof /NY)
Selected Exhibition:
2016
"KONICA MINOLTA Social design award 2016" (KONICA MINOLTA plaza /Tokyo)
“Ugoku ten 2nd”(Cinema maebashi / Gunma)
"Noseden Art Line cafe", artist talk（Aste Citizen’s plaza）
2015
"Noseden Art Line myoken-no-mori 2015 (Art Biennale, 90days)" (Wedge Gellry and Kawanishi Citizen’s Gallery /Hyogo, Japan)
"NyamaNyama @Salle de Ciné" (Theater in Diébougou /Burkina Faso,West Africa)
2014
"J_ART 4th" (Williamsburg Art & Historical Center /NY)
2012
"J_ART 2ND" (Williamsburg Art & Historical Center /NY)
"ARTLABO X 2012"（The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo /Tokyo)
2011
"ART STYLING with NOS AoyamaⅥ" (NOS Aoyama /Tokyo)
"Holiday Vol.6" (Gallery KINGYO/Tokyo)
2010
"Tama Art University & Universität der Künste Berlin Exhibition" (Gallery LE DECO /Tokyo)
"Degree show 2014/ Master's Degree Program" (Tama Art University/Tokyo)
"Holiday Vol.5" (Gallery KINGYO/Tokyo)
2009
"IDD TAMACOM'09 - Thinking Bubbles -" (Bank ART Studio NYK/Yokohama)
"ART & DESIGN CRITIQUES in TOKYO 2009" (Tama Art University/Tokyo)
"Cross×Counter vol.3"(Kichijyouji WAPP/Tokyo)
"TOKYO SCREENING -Japanese Emerging Artists' Video Art Exhibition" (Monkey Town and About Floor/NY)
2007
“Koto to Koto no Aida” (msc Gallery, Kyoto)
2006
“Sanjo-Akarikeshiki” (Project for Takase river, Kyoto)
”彩〜primary colors” (Doshisya Rohm Plaza, Kyoto)
“Kotonoha hirari” (Kansai Research Establishment, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute/ Kyoto)
“Kotonoha hirari” (Keihanna international forum / Kyoto)
Books:
2016 “Time Difference 時差 vol.2 New York-Seattle-Tokyo-Kobe”, Art Beasties Publications
2015 “Noseden Art Line myoken-no-mori 2015”, Noseden Art Line myoken-no-mori 2015 executive committee
2010 "ARTBOX Vol.8 Contemporary-Artist File Contemporary ART", ISBN 978-4-87298-848-2, Art Box International
2010 "Hyper Art Catalogue", Tama Art University
Prize:
2016 "KONICA MINOLTA Social design award 2016"
2015 "Noseden Art Line myoken-no-mori 2015" the Public art selection
2010 "MIRROR#4"ARTLABO X 2012 Contest, Last Nomination
2010 "MIRROR#3"16th Student CG Contest, Last Nomination
2008 "MIRROR#2"6th North Shinano Obuse Film Festival and 60-Second Cinema Competition
2007 "MIRROR" Art & Technology Northeast 2007,Special Jury Prize
Media:
2018 Web site “the stranger”, Recommended by Joule Zelman, https://www.thestranger.com/events/25546927/in-the-shadow-of-olympus
2016 Web magazine "ethica", http://www.ethica.jp/25984/
2016 PARCO "Booster", https://www.booster-parco.com/project/56
2014 Web site “Bushwick Daily” listed as one of 5 best shows in Bushwick
2016. 6. 01 Japanese newspaper "Senken Shinbun",Japan
2016. 5. 19 Japanese newspaper "Kobe Shinbun",Japan
2016. 5. 07 Japanese newspaper "Shukan NY Seikatu",NY
2015. 3. 27 Japanese newspaper "Yomi Time",NY
2016. 1. 30 Web site "ethica" http://www.ethica.jp/25984/
2015. 3. 10 Japanese newspaper “Soy Sauce”, Seattle
2014. 9. 20 Japanese newspaper "Shukan NY Seikatu",NY
2014. 3. 15 Japanese newspaper "Shukan NY Seikatu",NY
2014. 1. 30 Web site “Bushwick Daily” listed as one of 5 best shows in Bushwick
http://bushwickdaily.com/bushwick/categories/arts-and-culture/1993-bushwick-is-the-right-place-for-art-6-must-see-art-shows-this-weekend
2014. 1. 24 Japanese newspaper "Yomi Time"
2014. 1. 24 Japanese newspaper "NY E Japion"
2014. 1. 11 Japanese newspaper "Shukan NY Seikatu"