Artist's arttributes:
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Most exhibitions in:
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| USA | 35 |
| United Kingdom | 16 |
| Japan | 14 |
| Spain | 10 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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Ota Fine Arts, Japan |
7 |
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James Cohan Gallery - New York, USA |
7 |
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James Cohan Gallery - Shanghai, China |
4 |
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Maisterravalbuena Galería, Spain |
3 |
Biography: 
1977 Born in Ishikawa (JP)
Lives and works London (UK)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 127 
until 8.9.
Solo shows 29
2013
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| Figment - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
2012
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| Postscript - Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo |
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| Lineament - Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo |
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| Hiraki Sawa – Dwelling - Kunsthaus Essen, Essen |
2011
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| Hiraki Sawa: Things Go Around - Maisterravalbuena Galería, Madrid |
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| Hiraki Sawa: Other Dwellings - Kresge Art Museum, Lansing, MI |
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| Hiraki Sawa - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
2010
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| Carrousel - FRAC - Franche-Comté, Besançon |
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| Hiraki Sawa - Carrousel - Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, Besançon |
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| Hiraki Sawa - VOID , Derry (Northern Ireland) |
2009
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| Hiraki Sawa - Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo |
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| Hiraki Sawa - Maisterravalbuena Galería, Madrid |
2008
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| Hiraki Sawa - Faux Mouvement - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Metz |
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| Hiraki Sawa - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME |
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| Hiraki Sawa - Hako - CAB Centro de Arte Caja Burgos, Burgos |
2007
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| Hiraki Sawa - Hako - Chisenhale Gallery, London (England) |
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| Hiraki Sawa - Galleria Alberto Peola, Turin |
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| Hiraki Sawa - Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN |
2006
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| Hiraki Sawa - The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH |
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| Six good reasons to stay at home - Hiraki Sawa video works - NGV National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC |
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| Hiraki Sawa - Studio Guenzani, Milan |
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| Hiraki Sawa - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Hiraki Sawa - Firstsite, Colchester (England) |
2005
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| Hiraki Sawa - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC |
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| Hiraki Sawa - Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo |
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| Hiraki Sawa - Migration - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Hammer Projects - Hiraki Sawa - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
2003
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| Hiraki Sawa - Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo |
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| Hiraki Sawa - Dwelling - MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH |
Group shows 97
2013
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| True Illusion, Illusory Truth - Contemporary Art Beyond Ordinary Experience - Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei |
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| What We See - NMAO National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka |
2012
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| Mardin Bienali 2012 - Mardin Biennial, Mardin |
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| Double Vision - Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa |
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| Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan - Moscow museum of modern art - MMOMA, Moscow |
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| Liquids in Contemporary Art - Litvak Gallery, Tel Aviv |
2011
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| Exhibition Group - The Margulies Collection, Miami, FL |
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| Melancholia - Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo |
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| Cryptic: The Use of Allegory in Contemporary Art with a Master Class from Goya - Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Fat Chance To Tream - Maisterravalbuena Galería, Madrid |
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| Intermission - James Cohan Gallery - Shanghai, Shanghai |
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| Spy Hop - Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT |
2010
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| Betwixt & Between - Artspace, New Haven, CT |
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| Collections - Leeahn Gallery, Daegu |
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| Site Santa Fe Eighth International Biennial The Dissolve - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
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| SITE Santa Fe Biennial 2010 - The Dissolve - SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM |
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| 17th Biennale of Sydney - The Beauty and the Distance - Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, NSW |
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| Uncertain Terrain: The KMA Collection - Knoxville Museum of Art (KMA), Knoxville, TN |
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| The Tell-tale Heart - James Cohan Gallery - Shanghai, Shanghai |
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| Reflection - alternative views through video camera - Art Tower Mito ATM, Mito |
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| CUE: Artists’ Videos - Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
2009
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| Fragile - Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon |
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| 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT6) - Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, QLD |
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| screening - Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo |
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| Automatic Cities: The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| Huésped. Colección MUSAC en Rosario - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario (MACRo), Rosario |
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| Huésped. Colección Musac en el MNBA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes - MNBA, Buenos Aires |
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| Mining Nature - James Cohan Gallery - Shanghai, Shanghai |
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| Extraordinary Days - Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Powys (Wales) |
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| The Tree - James Cohan Gallery - Shanghai, Shanghai |
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| What Is Real? - Gana Art Gallery, Seoul |
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| Parades and Processions: Here comes everybody - Parasol unit, London (England) |
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| FRAGILE - Terres d'empathie - Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne |
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| Fact and Fiction:Recent Works from the UBS Art Collection - The Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, Guangdong |
2008
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| I Still Believe in Tomorrow: Contemporary Video from Asia - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| I Still Believe in Tomorrow: Contemporary Video from Asia - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Insomnia - The Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva |
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| Drawn in the clouds - Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki |
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| Cinema Sim - Narratives and Projections - Itaú Cultural Institute, São Paulo |
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| Biacs 3 - BIACS - Fundación Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Sevilla |
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| Gustos, colecciones y cintas de vídeo - CA2M - Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles |
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| Busan Biennale 2008 - The Busan Biennale, Busan |
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| Experimenta Playground: International Biennial of Media Arts - The Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, SA |
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| IMPLANT - The Horticultural Society of New York Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| In Between - Asian Video Art Weekend - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
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| The Alliance - doART Seoul, Seoul |
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| Artist File 2008 - The National Art Center Tokyo, Tokyo |
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| Art in the Life World - Breaking Ground, Dublin |
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| Video Art/3 Visions - Knoxville Museum of Art (KMA), Knoxville, TN |
2007
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| Have You Eaten Yet? - 2007 Asian Art Biennial - Asian Art Biennial Taiwan, Taichung |
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| 12è Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement - Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement, Geneva |
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| BEAUTIFUL NEW WORLD - Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan - BTAP (Beijing Tokyo Art Projects) - Beijing, Beijing |
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| Beautiful New World - Long March Space, Beijing |
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| Existencias - Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon |
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| In Wonderland: Animations by Christine Rebet, Hiraki Sawa and Shahzia Sikander - Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Scottsdale, AZ |
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| Ghosts in the Machine - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
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| Summer Show - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Neue Asiatische Kunst. Thermocline of Art - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
2006
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| Screenings - NGV National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC |
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| Fatamorgana: Illusion and Deception in Contemporary Art - Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa |
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| The 4th Seoul International Biennale of Media Art - Media City Seoul - International Biennale of Media Art, Seoul |
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| HOMESTORIES - Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus |
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| Negotiating Reality: Recent Works from the Logan Collection - Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, Denver, CO |
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| Collection II - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art - Kanazawa, Kanazawa |
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| A Season in Hell - Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London (England) |
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| Around the World in Eighty Days - SLG South London Gallery, London (England) |
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| Around the World in Eighty Days - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
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| Fast Futures: Asian Video Art - Japan Society, New York City, NY |
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| Recent Acquisitions. Prints, Drawings, and Photographs - The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI |
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| Broken Romanticism - Standpoint Gallery, London (England) |
2005
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| Fusion - Aspects of Asian Culture in the Musac Collection - Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon |
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| to be continued…/jaatku… - Taidehalli - Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki |
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| To Be Continued…/Jatkuu…, Helsinki Photography Festival - MUU Gallery, Helsinki |
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| Yokohama 2005 - International Triennale of Contemporary Art - Yokohama 2005, Yokohama |
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| III Bienal de Valencia - Agua sin ti no soy - Bienal de Valencia, Valencia |
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| POP pop POP - Gana Art Gallery, Seoul |
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| The Mind is a Horse (Part 2) - Bloomberg Space, London (England) |
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| Slow Down - Parra & Romero, Madrid |
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| Domicile/Privee-Public - Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne |
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| Group Exhibition - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Behind Closed Doors - Visual Research Centre, Dundee (Scotland) |
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| land - Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo |
2004
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| Dwellan - Exhibition of contemporary video art - Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen |
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| SITUATIONS CONSTRUITES - attitudes - espace d'arts contemporains, Geneva |
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| DaDaDa: Strategies against Marketecture - - temporarycontemporary, London (England) (closed) |
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| Spin Cycle - Spike Island, Bristol (England) |
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| Eijanaika Yes Future - Collection Lambert, Avignon |
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| Tokyo Rabbit Paradise - Careof – Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan |
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| Hiraki Sawa, Alan Saret - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Wonderful Travel Agency - - Borusan Sanat Galerisi / Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul (closed, 2006) |
2003
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| Wings of Art - Motiv Flugzeug - Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen |
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| fly away - Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS |
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| Air - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
2002
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| Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2002 - Barbican Art Gallery, London (England) |
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| EAST International 2002 - The Gallery at Norwich University , Norwich (England) |
Dealer Directory 4 |
China
| | James Cohan Gallery - Shanghai, Shanghai
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Japan
Spain
| | Maisterravalbuena Galería, Madrid
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USA
| | James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
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Collections 5

Japan
| | 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art - Kanazawa, Kanazawa
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Spain
| | Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon
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USA
| | Knoxville Museum of Art (KMA), Knoxville, TN
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| | The West Collection, Oaks, PA
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| | Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
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