Hiroko Sakurai
Born in Kyoto, Japan
Education: BA in Design (engineering), Kyoto Institute of Technology (京都工芸繊維大学）
Currently in MFA program of University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Art Exhibitions
2023 Search for piece (MFA group show) in Commons Gallery, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI
2022 Match Box at Cedar Street Gallery, Honolulu HI
Honolulu Printmaker annual exhibition, Honolulu, HI
Fiber Hawai'i at Downtown Art Center, Honolulu, HI
2021 Match Box at Cedar Street Gallery, Honolulu, HI
2018 Commitment to Excellence, Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Honolulu, HI
2018 Woods at fishcake
2018 Art In Time, group show at State Art Museum shop
2017 -2018 Into the Woods: Group show at Honolulu Museum of Art First Hawaiian Center
2017 Commitment to Excellence, Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Honolulu, HI
2016 Commitment to Excellence, Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Honolulu, HI
2015 Commitment to Excellence, Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Honolulu, HI
2014 Commitment to Excellence, Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Honolulu, HI
2013 Manifestation, two artists' show at Hawai'i Pacific University Art Gallery, HI
2011 Kagu+Akari, Group show at Fish cake, Honolulu, HI
2011 Commitment to Excellence, Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Honolulu, HI
2010 Artists of Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
2008 Trees, two artists' show at KOBO, Seattle, WA
2006 American Icon American Myth, group show at Alley Culture, Detroit, MI
2005 Summer festival, group show at KOBO, Seattle, WA
2002 group show at KOBO, Seattle, WA
Conservation, Scroll mounting and other work
2012 Fall -2019
Teaching "Japanese Hanging scroll workshop" &"Washi explore: book binding and paper decoration"
in Honolulu Museum of Art School
2011 Summer -
Working for University of Hawai'i Hamilton library Preservation Lab., Robyn Buntin of Honolulu, Pacific Gallery and Private clients as an east Asian painting and paper conservator and / or a scroll mounter
2010 October-2011 June
Worked as a volunteer at Hirayama studio of The British Museum and at the paper and book conservation studio of Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2010 April-May
Worked as an assistant conservator in Eddie Jose's Thangkha conservation workshop in Thimphu, Bhutan
2007 October -2010 January
Worked at Asian Art Conservation studio in Honolulu Academy of Arts
2006 September-2007September
Worked as a volunteer at Asian Art Conservation studio in Honolulu Academy of Arts
2004 - 2006
Worked as an independent scroll mounter and teacher for scroll mounting in Seattle WA and Vancouver, Canada
2004
Worked as an apprentice at Kitaoka Gihodo in Kyoto, Japan
2003 - 2004
Worked for collection database of KIT Art and Craft Museum, Kyoto, Japan
Student of scroll mounting class of Yabuta Kashu, Kyoto, Japan
2000 - 2002
Worked as an art book buyer and retailer at Kinokuniya Bookstores in Seattle
1998 - 1999, 1989 - 1991
Studio assistant at Studio Jae-Eun CHOI Inc., Tokyo, Japan
1992 - 1997
Worked at art book store Media Shop, Kyoto, Japan
Art instructor, Yabushita Junko Art School, Kyoto, Japan
Born in Kyoto, Japan
Education: BA in Design (engineering), Kyoto Institute of Technology (京都工芸繊維大学）
Currently in MFA program of University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Art Exhibitions
2023 Search for piece (MFA group show) in Commons Gallery, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI
2022 Match Box at Cedar Street Gallery, Honolulu HI
Honolulu Printmaker annual exhibition, Honolulu, HI
Fiber Hawai'i at Downtown Art Center, Honolulu, HI
2021 Match Box at Cedar Street Gallery, Honolulu, HI
2018 Commitment to Excellence, Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Honolulu, HI
2018 Woods at fishcake
2018 Art In Time, group show at State Art Museum shop
2017 -2018 Into the Woods: Group show at Honolulu Museum of Art First Hawaiian Center
2017 Commitment to Excellence, Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Honolulu, HI
2016 Commitment to Excellence, Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Honolulu, HI
2015 Commitment to Excellence, Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Honolulu, HI
2014 Commitment to Excellence, Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Honolulu, HI
2013 Manifestation, two artists' show at Hawai'i Pacific University Art Gallery, HI
2011 Kagu+Akari, Group show at Fish cake, Honolulu, HI
2011 Commitment to Excellence, Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Honolulu, HI
2010 Artists of Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
2008 Trees, two artists' show at KOBO, Seattle, WA
2006 American Icon American Myth, group show at Alley Culture, Detroit, MI
2005 Summer festival, group show at KOBO, Seattle, WA
2002 group show at KOBO, Seattle, WA
Conservation, Scroll mounting and other work
2012 Fall -2019
Teaching "Japanese Hanging scroll workshop" &"Washi explore: book binding and paper decoration"
in Honolulu Museum of Art School
2011 Summer -
Working for University of Hawai'i Hamilton library Preservation Lab., Robyn Buntin of Honolulu, Pacific Gallery and Private clients as an east Asian painting and paper conservator and / or a scroll mounter
2010 October-2011 June
Worked as a volunteer at Hirayama studio of The British Museum and at the paper and book conservation studio of Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2010 April-May
Worked as an assistant conservator in Eddie Jose's Thangkha conservation workshop in Thimphu, Bhutan
2007 October -2010 January
Worked at Asian Art Conservation studio in Honolulu Academy of Arts
2006 September-2007September
Worked as a volunteer at Asian Art Conservation studio in Honolulu Academy of Arts
2004 - 2006
Worked as an independent scroll mounter and teacher for scroll mounting in Seattle WA and Vancouver, Canada
2004
Worked as an apprentice at Kitaoka Gihodo in Kyoto, Japan
2003 - 2004
Worked for collection database of KIT Art and Craft Museum, Kyoto, Japan
Student of scroll mounting class of Yabuta Kashu, Kyoto, Japan
2000 - 2002
Worked as an art book buyer and retailer at Kinokuniya Bookstores in Seattle
1998 - 1999, 1989 - 1991
Studio assistant at Studio Jae-Eun CHOI Inc., Tokyo, Japan
1992 - 1997
Worked at art book store Media Shop, Kyoto, Japan
Art instructor, Yabushita Junko Art School, Kyoto, Japan