Photo by Sarah McClean
Taro Hattori
Meet our artist
Lucas Artists Fellow
- Visual Arts
About
Residency Dates
- June 2016 – August 2016
- February 2017 – February 2017
- December 2019 – December 2019
- January 2020 – January 2020
- March 2023 – March 2023
Region
Japan
Taro Hattori is an interdisciplinary artist who has shown his installations and socially engaged projects nationally and internationally. His recent work often creates relationships between spatial sculpture and people with a specific socio-political background through their performances, conversations, and singing. His installations frequently consist of carefully crafted structures that provide a sensory environment in which viewers encounter conflicting issues and questions to ponder.
He is a recent recipient of grants from Creative Work Fund, Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, California Arts Council, Art Matters Foundation NY, Zellerbach Foundation, and the Center for Cultural Innovation. He has been awarded residency fellowships from MacDowell, Headlands Center for the Arts, Montalvo Arts Center, Recology, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the de Young Museum, and Kuandu Art Museum (Taiwan). He has taught at California College of the Arts, leading its Sculpture and Individualized/Interdisciplinary Programs.