Naotaka Hiro
"Untitled (Last Night)", 2024
Acrylic, wax pencil, and graphite pencil on paper
24 x 18 inches (61 x 45.7 cm)
Courtesy of the Artist and The Box LA

Selected by Randy Kennedy

Naotaka Hiro (b. 1972, Osaka, Japan) lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his B.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1997 and his M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts in 2000. Solo exhibitions include In the Ravine at Misako & Rosen, Tokyo (2019); Subterranean & Wanderer at Brennan & Griffin, New York (2019); and Peaking at The Box, Los Angeles (2016); In the Ravine, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo (2019); Armor, The Box LA, Los Angeles (2021); Green Door, Herald St., London (2021); Sand-Man, Bortolami, New York (2022). Recent group exhibitions include Seven Stations: Selections from MOCA’s Collection at MOCA, Los Angeles (2020); In the Meanwhile... at Santa Barbara Museum of Art (2020); 50+50: A Creative Century from Chouinard to CalArts, REDCAT, Los Angeles (2020); Le Hanger at Maison de Rendez-Vous, Brussels (2020); Made in L.A. 2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; A Modest Proposal at Hauser & Wirth, New York (2016); and Men in LA: Three Generations of Drawings: Naotaka Hiro, Paul McCarthy, and Benjamin Weissman (2014) at The Box, Los Angeles; New Abstracts: Recent Acquisitions, LACMA (2022), Los Angeles; Shadow Tracer: Works on Paper, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2023); Painting Paintings, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2024).