hiroko sakurai

Education

2025 MFA in Drawing and Painting, University of Hawai’i Manoa, Honolulu, HI

1989 BA in Engineering (design), Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan

Awards/Honors (All in Honolulu, HI),

2025 SFCA Recognition award ("Mud, Myth and Memory" MFA Thesis exhibition University of Hawai’i Manoa)

2024 Student Award (Hawai’i Craftsmen Annual Exhibition)

Left Wing Right Brain Fund of the Hawaii Community Foundation for Excellence

(Honolulu Printmaker Annual Exhibition)

2023 Merit Award in Mixed Media Arts (Hawai’i Craftsmen Annual Exhibition)

2022 SFCA Recognition award (Honolulu Printmaker Annual Exhibition)

Juror’s Message Merit award (Fiber Hawai’i 2022)

2018 2nd place in 2-D entry (JCCH Commitment to Excellence Art Exhibition)

2017 Honorable Mention (JCCH Commitment to Excellence Art Exhibition)

2017 SFCA Recognition awards (“In the Woods” in First Hawaiian Bank, HoMA)

2016 2nd place in 2-D entry (JCCH Commitment to Excellence Art Exhibition,)

Selected Exhibitions (All in Honolulu unless indicate other area, HI)

2025 “MFA Thesis Exhibition: Mud, Myth and Memory” University of Hawai’i Art Gallery

2024 “Artists of Hawai’i 2024” Downtown Art Center

“Hawai’i Craftsmen Annual Statewide Exhibition 2024” Downtown Art Center

“Fiber Hawai’i 2024” Downtown Art Center

“Honolulu Printmaker Annual Exhibition” Honolulu printmakers

“Connections In the Making” Commons Gallery, University of Hawai’i Manoa

2023 “On the Ground” Holomua Farms, Waialua, HI

“Artists of Hawai’i 2023” Downtown Art Center

“Hawai’i Craftsmen Annual Statewide Exhibition 2023” Downtown Art Center

“SURROUNDED by WATER: Hawai’i Handweaver’s Hui” Downtown Art Center

“Honolulu Printmaker Annual Exhibition” Honolulu printmakers

“Search for Peace” Commons Gallery, University of Hawai’i Manoa

2022 “Honolulu Printmaker Annual Exhibition” Honolulu printmakers

“Fiber Hawai’i 2022” Downtown Art Center

2019 “21st Century Women” Honolulu Museum of Art

2018 Solo exhibition “WOODS” fishcake

2018-14 “HJCC:Commitment to Excellence Art Exhibition” Honolulu Museum of Art School

2017 Three artists show “In the Woods” First Hawaiian Center of Honolulu Museum of Art

2013 Two artists show “Manifestation” Hawai’i Pacific University art gallery

2009 “Artists of Hawaii” Honolulu Museum of Art

Public collections

Hawai’i State Foundation of Arts and Culture

Honolulu Museum of Art

Servco Honolulu