Hiroki Tsukuda (b. 1978, Kagawa, Japan)
Hiroki Tsukuda was born in 1978 in Kagawa, Japan. He graduated from the Department of Imaging Arts & Sciences at Musashino Art University in 2001. Tsukuda lives and works in Tokyo.
The artist’s drawings and digital collage explore the turbulent, futuristic cityscapes of his imaginings. Created with meticulous detail, these intricate, monochromatic works illustrate collapsed spaces, in which mechanized worlds merge with sci-fi mythos in states of controlled chaos and organic mutation. Similarly, Tsukuda creates installation works out of raw industrial material, flora, and found objects that transpire directly from the artist’s drawings.
Tsukuda’s work was featured in the 8th Yokohama. Triennale (2024). He has mounted solo exhibitions at Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo (2022); Petzel, New York (2020); Museum of Modern Art, Gunma (2019); Capitain Petzel, Berlin (2018); and Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (2017), among others. He has been included in group exhibitions at Parco Museum Tokyo, Tokyo (2024); AISHONANZUKA, Hong Kong (2023); Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich (2023); Tezukayama Gallery, Osaka (2021); Jeffery Deitch, Los Angeles and New York (2019); AC Málaga, Antiguo Mercado de Mayoristas, Malaga, (2019); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2019); Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2019); Jack Hanley Gallery, New York (2016); and Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Postdam e.V., Potsdam (2015), among others.
His work is represented in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Mori Art Museum, Japan; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Foundation, Wein; and the Jean Pigozzi Foundation, Geneva.
“Technically speaking, my works are not completely monochromatic, in fact the paper I use is quite yellowish, including some colors such as silver and brown. I am assuming that they are colored paintings, yet I am eliminating the colorfulness from my works since it would then become an obstacle to the pursuit of the shapes.”
Hiroki Tsukuda
Installation view, Visionary Sensibility, Nanzuka, 2007
2007 First solo exhibition at Nanzuka Gallery, Tokyo
2009 Awarded the Bacon Prize at Art Fair Tokyo
2010 First group institutional exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art Gunma
2011 Solo exhibition at Ten Haaf Projects in The Netherlands
2015 Participates in a residency in Berlin curated by Nanzuka
Installation view, Monolog in the Doom, Musuem of Modern Art, Gunma, 2019
2016 First solo exhibition with Petzel Gallery in New York
2017 Hour of Excavation, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
2019 First solo institutional exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, titled Monolog in the Doom
Included in the group exhibition, Roppongi Crossing, at Mori Art Museum in Tokyo
2020 They Live opens at Petzel Gallery
Vol. 16
2019
Charcoal, ink and pencil on paper, wood panel, with silkscreen printed acrylic frame
69.37 x 49.69 inches
Neon Demon
2019
Charcoal, ink and pencil on paper, wood panel, with acrylic frame
94.49 x 141.73 inches
Untitled
2019
Charcoal, ink and pencil on paper, wood panel, with silkscreen printed acrylic frame
118.11 x 86.61 inches
Dreams of Doom 10
2019
Charcoal, ink and pencil on paper, wood panel, with silkscreen printed acrylic frame
24.09 x 30.39 inches
Dreams of Doom 06
2019
Charcoal, ink and pencil on paper, wood panel, with silkscreen printed acrylic frame
17.01 x 11.1 inches
Humid Mind
2019
Charcoal, ink and color pencil on paper, wood panel, with silkscreen printed in acrylic frame
70.8 x 94.5 inches
Bowl
2019
Charcoal, ink and color pencil on paper, wood panel, with silkscreen printed in acrylic frame
39.3 inches
Fat Sphinx
2018
Charcoal, ink and colored pencil on paper, cprint, wood panel with silkscreen printed acrylic frame
71.26 x 95.28 inches
XXII
2018
Charcoal, ink and acrylic paint on paper amounted on wood panel, with silkscreen printed acrylic frame
69.29 x 49.61 inches
Quarantine
2018
Charcoal, ink and acrylic paint on paper amounted on wood panel, with silkscreen printed acrylic frame
75.2 x 49.61 inches
The Circle of Excavation
2017
Black ink and charcoal on paper
39.37 x 39.37 inches
Second Meteroid
2017
Black ink and charcoal on paper
23.62 x 23.62 inches
Orbital Debris 1
2017
Black ink and charcoal on paper
54.84 x 13.74 inches
Orbital Debris 2
2017
Black ink and charcoal on paper
54.84 x 13.74 inches
Fountain
2017
Black ink and charcoal on paper
23.62 x 47.4 inches
Secret Room
2017
Black ink and charcoal on paper
17.32 x 17.32 inches
Rolling Statue
2017
Black ink and charcoal on paper
17.32 x 17.32 inches
Speaker
2017
Black ink and charcoal on paper
78.74 x 55.08 inches
Explorer
2017
Black ink and charcoal on paper
78.74 x 55.08 inches
Night in Desert
2017
Black ink and charcoal on paper
18.9 x 13.39 inches
Underground Lake
2017
Black ink and charcoal on paper
15.04 x 15.04 inches
Sea Moon
2017
Black ink and charcoal on paper
16.26 x 13.39 inches
Berenger
2017
Mixed media, plastic, string, fake fur, fake leaf, plaster
20.47 x 91.34 x 14.96 inches
Hour of Excavation
2017
Mixed media
106.3 x 98.43 x 230.31 inches
The Antiquities
2017
Mixed media
55.12 x 393.7 x 11.81 inches
Untitled
2017
C-print
35.43 x 100.39 inches
Untitled
2016
Mixed media
197 x 159 x 110 inches
Early Memories
2016
Mixed media
160 x 118 x 84 inches
Entropy
2015
Black ink and charcoal on paper
Triptych: 159.45 x 86.61 inches
Underworld
2015
Black ink and charcoal on paper
Diptych: 78.74 x 102.36 inches
To the Depths
2015
Black ink and charcoal on paper
Diptych: 78.74 x 102.36 inches
Stone Made Padlock
2015
Black ink and charcoal on paper
78.74 x 53.15 inches
4466 Void
2015
Black ink and charcoal on paper
78.74 x 53.15 inches
Dusk Comes
2015
Black ink and charcoal on paper
53.15 x 53.15 inches
Untitled
2015
Black ink and charcoal on paper
17.32 x 17.32 inches
Untitled
2015
Black ink and charcoal on paper
17.32 x 17.32 inches
Untitled
2015
Black ink and charcoal on paper
17.32 x 17.32 inches
Untitled
2015
Black ink and charcoal on paper
17.32 x 17.32 inches
Hooper
2016
Mixed media
18.9 x 11.81 x 13.78 inches
Installation view, They Live, Petzel Gallery, New York, 2020
Installation view, Hiroki Tsukuda: Roppongi Crossing, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2019
Installation view, Monolog in the Doom, Musuem of Modern Art, Gunma, 2019
Installation view, Hiroki Tsukuda: Hour of Excavation, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, 2017
Installation view, Enter the O, Petzel Gallery, 2016
Installation view, New drawings, some journey and some memories, Ten Haaf Projects, 2011
Installation view, Visionary Sensibility, Nanzuka, 2007
