Jason Hirata
Jason Hirata (b. 1986, Seattle, Washington) works and lives in New York City. Over the past two decades, Hirata has developed a singular artistic practice that explores the social dimensions of exhibition-making, institutional relationships, and the material conditions of media. As a multidisciplinary artist, Hirata's work spans various formats including installation, photography, sculpture, performance, and writing. His approach emerged during a period when digital networks were transforming artistic production and reshaping institutional frameworks. Hirata's practice often demonstrates a concern with support systems, highlighting dependencies and contingencies inherent in artistic production. Through strategic borrowing, repurposing, and reconfiguring of objects and images, his work engages with the ethics of artistic labor and production. Hirata's artistic process plays on the complex relationship between artist, institution, and material conditions, often deliberately blurring the boundaries between creator, assistant, and facilitator. His pieces have a distinctive physical presence that reveals the underlying dynamics of power, authorship, and visibility within the art world, challenging the traditional infrastructure of art production and exhibition while drawing attention to the often-invisible labor and social relations that make artistic practices possible.
Hirata's recent publications include THE SUPPORTING ROLE (2024), a collection of the artist's writings from 2019 to 2024 published by Reliable Copy Press, comprising checklists, press releases, visual descriptions, exhibition reviews, invoices, and curricula vitae—texts built from the supporting documents of an artistic practice; CONTINGENCY LINES in Touching Paper: Writing Towards Art, Love, and the Weather, edited by Rachel Haidu & Hanna Feldman (2025); and A THEORY OF NEED in Assistances, edited by Tamara Antonijevic & Christopher Weickenmeier (2024).
Recent solo and duo exhibitions include: DÀ A CHI AVAREGIA, Fanta-MLN, Milan (2024); WERKGELEGENHEID/ INTERRUPTIONS & COINCIDENCE, Billytown, The Hague (with Magnus Frederik Clausen, 2023); MINUTES, Ulrik, New York City (2022); NAP, Paid, Seattle (2022); PLOT, Theta, New York City (with Tony Chrenka, 2021); FROM NOW IN THEN, Fanta-MLN, Milan (2021); SOMETIMES YOU'RE BOTH, 80WSE, New York (2020). Selected recent group exhibitions include: CONCRETE, Hessel Museum of Art, New York (with Ghislaine Leung and Robert Barry, 2025); Regards, Chicago; Simian, Copenhagen; Château Shatto, Los Angeles; Museion, Bolzano; Baader-Meinhof, Omaha; The Wig, Berlin; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn; Drei, Mönchengladbach; Kunstverein Kevin Space, Vienna; Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nürnberg; Kai Matsumiya, New York; and Joan, Los Angeles.
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Jason Hirata (b. 1986, Seattle, Washington) works and lives in New York City. Over the past two decades, Hirata has developed a singular artistic practice that explores the social dimensions of exhibition-making, institutional relationships, and the material conditions of media. As a multidisciplinary artist, Hirata's work spans various formats including installation, photography, sculpture, performance, and writing. His approach emerged during a period when digital networks were transforming artistic production and reshaping institutional frameworks. Hirata's practice often demonstrates a concern with support systems, highlighting dependencies and contingencies inherent in artistic production. Through strategic borrowing, repurposing, and reconfiguring of objects and images, his work engages with the ethics of artistic labor and production. Hirata's artistic process plays on the complex relationship between artist, institution, and material conditions, often deliberately blurring the boundaries between creator, assistant, and facilitator. His pieces have a distinctive physical presence that reveals the underlying dynamics of power, authorship, and visibility within the art world, challenging the traditional infrastructure of art production and exhibition while drawing attention to the often-invisible labor and social relations that make artistic practices possible.
Hirata's recent publications include THE SUPPORTING ROLE (2024), a collection of the artist's writings from 2019 to 2024 published by Reliable Copy Press, comprising checklists, press releases, visual descriptions, exhibition reviews, invoices, and curricula vitae—texts built from the supporting documents of an artistic practice; CONTINGENCY LINES in Touching Paper: Writing Towards Art, Love, and the Weather, edited by Rachel Haidu & Hanna Feldman (2025); and A THEORY OF NEED in Assistances, edited by Tamara Antonijevic & Christopher Weickenmeier (2024).
Recent solo and duo exhibitions include: DÀ A CHI AVAREGIA, Fanta-MLN, Milan (2024); WERKGELEGENHEID/ INTERRUPTIONS & COINCIDENCE, Billytown, The Hague (with Magnus Frederik Clausen, 2023); MINUTES, Ulrik, New York City (2022); NAP, Paid, Seattle (2022); PLOT, Theta, New York City (with Tony Chrenka, 2021); FROM NOW IN THEN, Fanta-MLN, Milan (2021); SOMETIMES YOU'RE BOTH, 80WSE, New York (2020). Selected recent group exhibitions include: CONCRETE, Hessel Museum of Art, New York (with Ghislaine Leung and Robert Barry, 2025); Regards, Chicago; Simian, Copenhagen; Château Shatto, Los Angeles; Museion, Bolzano; Baader-Meinhof, Omaha; The Wig, Berlin; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn; Drei, Mönchengladbach; Kunstverein Kevin Space, Vienna; Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nürnberg; Kai Matsumiya, New York; and Joan, Los Angeles.
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