NIIZEKI HIROMI
EDUCATION
1988-89 The Art Students League of New York, NY, Fine Art Painting
1982-85 Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Painting, Art Education
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010 Installaion “ My Garden,” tentative title, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Installation “Windows,” “IT’S GETTING HOT IN HERE” show, Aku Gallery, Eastern
Conneticut StateUniversity, CT
2008 Installation “Windows,” “IT’S GETTING HOT IN HERE” show, Montserrat College of Art,
Beverly, MA
2008 Installation “Pockets,” “5x4=20” show, Children’s Museum of the Arts 20th Anniversary,
New York, NY
2008 Installation “MokoMoko Shopping Bags/Gon-Chan,” Red Dot Art Fair, New York, NY
2007 Installation “MokoMoko Shopping Bag-Street Vendor Style,” “The Field” show, Jamaica
Center for Arts & Learning, Queens, NY
2007 Installaion “MokoMoko Windows,” Red Dot Art Fair, New York, NY
2006 “Extreme Materials” show, Memorial Art Gallery, The University of Rochester, NY
2005 Solo Show, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Solo Show, George Billis Gallery LA, Los Angeles, CA
2004 “Fresh Assortment” show, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Installation “Moko Moko Windows,” George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2003 “Round” show, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2003 “Affordable Art Fair,” George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2002 “Affordable Art Fair,” George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2002 “Windows-Maru,” Hybrid show, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, NY
2002 “Obsessive Vision,” Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001 “Windows,” Cave, Brooklyn, NY
2001 “My Bedroom,” George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2001 “My Living Room,” Highways Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Permanent Installation for the Palo Alto Junior Museum, Palo Alto, CA
2001 “Windows,” CAVE, Brooklyn, NY.
2000 “Apartment 3F” show at Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY
2000 “Balls,” (part of Elements 2000, curated by Devorah Sperber and Jane Ingram Allen),
Here Art Gallery, New York, NY.
1999 9th Annual Show, Asian American Art Centre, New York, NY
1999 “The Picnic,” George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
1999 “Water,” Cave Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY
1998 “Materialism,” The Art Store, New York, NY
1998 “10 Women,” George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
1998 “The Art Exchange,” George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
1998 “Women Against Violence,” National Museum of Art, South Africa
1998 “Kiosk,” Permanent Collection for Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
1997 Installation, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Installation “My Back Yard,” Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Installation “ Scaffolding,” Cave Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1997 Asian American Art Alliance Charity Show, Twilo, New York, NY
1997 Installation-collaboration w/ Cristine Richardson, Children’s Museum of the Arts,
New York, NY.
1997 “Art Garden” show, Touhan Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
1997 Cover design for CD “Subway Train” of Imagination Workshop Band
1996 “The Modern Landscape,” The Queens Borough Library Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Crest Hardware Store Show, New York, NY
1996 Installation “Hanger,” Gold Bar, New York, NY
1996 “Blue Collar Pop at A True Value” Show , Annapolis, Maryland.
1995 Installation, The Clocktower Gallery/The Institute for Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1995 Group Show, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Installation, Cast Iron Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Installation, Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, NY
1995 Installation-collaboration with children, Children’s Museum of The Arts, New York, NY
1994 Installation for Front Window, Children’s Museum of The Arts, New York, NY
1994 Small Works Show, Washington Square East Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Small Works Show, Washington Square East Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Group Show at The Art Students League, New York, NY
1987 Three-person Show, Honda Public Hall, Tokyo
1986 Two-person Show, Gallery SHIKI, Tokyo
1986 New Art show, Laforet Museum in Harajuku, Tokyo
1986 One-person Show, Gallery SOGO, Yokohama
1986 Collaboration with Takase Aki: Jazz Pianist, Yoshioka Satomi:Visual Artist, Musashino Art
University, Tokyo
1985 One-person Show, Art Space 88 Gallery, Tokyo
PUBLICATIONS
The New York Sun, April 7 2003, pg.20, illus.
Can, Elle, “Hybrid,” NYArts Magazine, May 2002 issue, pg. 20
Macinnis, Michael, “Hybrid,” The New York Art World Magazine, May 2002 issue 14, Pg. Illus.
Esquire/Japan, April 2000 issue, by Yuriko Yamaki, “Elements 2000” Show, Illus.
Silverstein, Joel, “Elements 2000,” Review Magazine, March 1, 2000, pg. 27
Cotter, Holland, “Apartment 3F,” New York Times, March 31, 2000, pg. E36
Cotter, Holland, “A Kinetic Moment For Asian Art,” New York Times, March 24, 2000, pg. E40
Jane Ingram Allen, “Participatory Works: Viewers as Co-Creators” Sculpture Magazine, pgs 73 - 75. illus. Jan, 2000
Gekkan Bijutsu, September 1999 issue, by Miyako Yoshinaga, p144-145, Illus.
The Wall Street Journal, June 4/99, Feature/Illus.
D’Art International, Spr/Summer, ‘99, Feature/Illus. pgs.10 + 43
The Village Voice, June 8/99, Choices, Listing
Yomiuri America, May 21/99, New York, Feature/Illus.
The Villager, listing, May 5/99, New York
OCS News, April 23/99, New York, Listing/Illus.
BT/Bijutu-Techo, p171, Feb/98, Tokyo
Gallery Monthly, p92-93, Jan/98, Tokyo
Yomiuri America, Oct/97, New York
Newsday, pA35, Aug/9/96, New York
GIRAIYA #13/’93, #17/’94, #20/’96, Tokyo
COLLECTION
Ruth Kaufmann
Progressive, New York
Swiss Re, New York
G. Ronald Kastner
Nicholas Davies / Director of Nicholas Davies Gallery, New York
George Billis / Director of George Billis Gallery, New York
Michael and Diana Sands
Gordon Stewart
Stanley Shenker
Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York
Kathleen Schneider / Founder of Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York
Kimberly Marrero / Director of Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York
Christine Richardson / Mural Artist
Ohishi Etsuko / Director of Touhan Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
Miyako Yoshinaga / MY Art Prospects, New York
Michael Maiter
Jason Song, MA
Palo Alto Junior Museum, Palo Alto, CA
EDUCATION
1988-89 The Art Students League of New York, NY, Fine Art Painting
1982-85 Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Painting, Art Education
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010 Installaion “ My Garden,” tentative title, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Installation “Windows,” “IT’S GETTING HOT IN HERE” show, Aku Gallery, Eastern
Conneticut StateUniversity, CT
2008 Installation “Windows,” “IT’S GETTING HOT IN HERE” show, Montserrat College of Art,
Beverly, MA
2008 Installation “Pockets,” “5x4=20” show, Children’s Museum of the Arts 20th Anniversary,
New York, NY
2008 Installation “MokoMoko Shopping Bags/Gon-Chan,” Red Dot Art Fair, New York, NY
2007 Installation “MokoMoko Shopping Bag-Street Vendor Style,” “The Field” show, Jamaica
Center for Arts & Learning, Queens, NY
2007 Installaion “MokoMoko Windows,” Red Dot Art Fair, New York, NY
2006 “Extreme Materials” show, Memorial Art Gallery, The University of Rochester, NY
2005 Solo Show, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Solo Show, George Billis Gallery LA, Los Angeles, CA
2004 “Fresh Assortment” show, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Installation “Moko Moko Windows,” George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2003 “Round” show, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2003 “Affordable Art Fair,” George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2002 “Affordable Art Fair,” George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2002 “Windows-Maru,” Hybrid show, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, NY
2002 “Obsessive Vision,” Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001 “Windows,” Cave, Brooklyn, NY
2001 “My Bedroom,” George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2001 “My Living Room,” Highways Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Permanent Installation for the Palo Alto Junior Museum, Palo Alto, CA
2001 “Windows,” CAVE, Brooklyn, NY.
2000 “Apartment 3F” show at Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY
2000 “Balls,” (part of Elements 2000, curated by Devorah Sperber and Jane Ingram Allen),
Here Art Gallery, New York, NY.
1999 9th Annual Show, Asian American Art Centre, New York, NY
1999 “The Picnic,” George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
1999 “Water,” Cave Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY
1998 “Materialism,” The Art Store, New York, NY
1998 “10 Women,” George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
1998 “The Art Exchange,” George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
1998 “Women Against Violence,” National Museum of Art, South Africa
1998 “Kiosk,” Permanent Collection for Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
1997 Installation, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Installation “My Back Yard,” Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Installation “ Scaffolding,” Cave Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1997 Asian American Art Alliance Charity Show, Twilo, New York, NY
1997 Installation-collaboration w/ Cristine Richardson, Children’s Museum of the Arts,
New York, NY.
1997 “Art Garden” show, Touhan Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
1997 Cover design for CD “Subway Train” of Imagination Workshop Band
1996 “The Modern Landscape,” The Queens Borough Library Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Crest Hardware Store Show, New York, NY
1996 Installation “Hanger,” Gold Bar, New York, NY
1996 “Blue Collar Pop at A True Value” Show , Annapolis, Maryland.
1995 Installation, The Clocktower Gallery/The Institute for Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1995 Group Show, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Installation, Cast Iron Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Installation, Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, NY
1995 Installation-collaboration with children, Children’s Museum of The Arts, New York, NY
1994 Installation for Front Window, Children’s Museum of The Arts, New York, NY
1994 Small Works Show, Washington Square East Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Small Works Show, Washington Square East Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Group Show at The Art Students League, New York, NY
1987 Three-person Show, Honda Public Hall, Tokyo
1986 Two-person Show, Gallery SHIKI, Tokyo
1986 New Art show, Laforet Museum in Harajuku, Tokyo
1986 One-person Show, Gallery SOGO, Yokohama
1986 Collaboration with Takase Aki: Jazz Pianist, Yoshioka Satomi:Visual Artist, Musashino Art
University, Tokyo
1985 One-person Show, Art Space 88 Gallery, Tokyo
PUBLICATIONS
The New York Sun, April 7 2003, pg.20, illus.
Can, Elle, “Hybrid,” NYArts Magazine, May 2002 issue, pg. 20
Macinnis, Michael, “Hybrid,” The New York Art World Magazine, May 2002 issue 14, Pg. Illus.
Esquire/Japan, April 2000 issue, by Yuriko Yamaki, “Elements 2000” Show, Illus.
Silverstein, Joel, “Elements 2000,” Review Magazine, March 1, 2000, pg. 27
Cotter, Holland, “Apartment 3F,” New York Times, March 31, 2000, pg. E36
Cotter, Holland, “A Kinetic Moment For Asian Art,” New York Times, March 24, 2000, pg. E40
Jane Ingram Allen, “Participatory Works: Viewers as Co-Creators” Sculpture Magazine, pgs 73 - 75. illus. Jan, 2000
Gekkan Bijutsu, September 1999 issue, by Miyako Yoshinaga, p144-145, Illus.
The Wall Street Journal, June 4/99, Feature/Illus.
D’Art International, Spr/Summer, ‘99, Feature/Illus. pgs.10 + 43
The Village Voice, June 8/99, Choices, Listing
Yomiuri America, May 21/99, New York, Feature/Illus.
The Villager, listing, May 5/99, New York
OCS News, April 23/99, New York, Listing/Illus.
BT/Bijutu-Techo, p171, Feb/98, Tokyo
Gallery Monthly, p92-93, Jan/98, Tokyo
Yomiuri America, Oct/97, New York
Newsday, pA35, Aug/9/96, New York
GIRAIYA #13/’93, #17/’94, #20/’96, Tokyo
COLLECTION
Ruth Kaufmann
Progressive, New York
Swiss Re, New York
G. Ronald Kastner
Nicholas Davies / Director of Nicholas Davies Gallery, New York
George Billis / Director of George Billis Gallery, New York
Michael and Diana Sands
Gordon Stewart
Stanley Shenker
Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York
Kathleen Schneider / Founder of Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York
Kimberly Marrero / Director of Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York
Christine Richardson / Mural Artist
Ohishi Etsuko / Director of Touhan Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
Miyako Yoshinaga / MY Art Prospects, New York
Michael Maiter
Jason Song, MA
Palo Alto Junior Museum, Palo Alto, CA