OKADA Hiroko
Celebrate for ME: okuru, “Celebrate for ME- The first step”, PARA/Bigakko, shared space, 2023
Photo: Norizumi KITADA
Engaged Body, "Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2019: The Art of Transposition", Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2019
Courtesy of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum Photo: Kenichiro OSHIMA
Transform, Okada Hiroko +AIR475 “We are here right now.”, Yonago City Museum of Art, 2022
Photo: KAYANO Yuichi
Photo：Norizumi KITADA
OKADA Hiroko
Born in Tokyo in 1970, where she lives.
1993 Tama Art University, BA in painting
Contemporary artist.
Her major works include “Celebrate for ME” (2023-), which uses XR technology to recreate funeral rites; “Engaged Body” (2019), which is themed on regenerative medicine; and “The Delivery by Male Project” (2002-2019), which depicts male pregnancy. She uses daring methods to create works of art that send a message to the modern world.
She also participates in many art projects. She leads the Alternative Puppet Theater “GEKIDAN☆SHIKI” theater company (2010-). She is part of the Aida Family unit (Makoto Aida, Hiroko Okada, and Torajiro Aida) (2001-) and the W HIROKO PROJECT (2020-), an art, fashion, and medical project that started during the COVID pandemic.
Major Exhibitions
“Celebrate for ME at Shunjuza,” Kyoto Art Theater Shunjuza (Kyoto), 2024
Solo Exhibition OKADA Hiroko + AIR475 “We are here right now”, Yonago City Museum of Art (Tottori), 2022
“The Art of Transposition”, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum(Tokyo), 2019