Hiroto Iba

He became truant from the 3rd grade of junior high school and retreated to his home for 3 years. That experience drastically changed my relationship with painting and gave me an opportunity to nurture the “core” of production.

After entering university, he drew many pictures of the mountain “Ichijouzan,” which was carved into a symbolic shape by illegal residential land development, as a “wound on the earth.”

While drawing works containing criticism of modern society, I was fascinated by idyllic landscapes and decaying buildings, and also painted in oil and tempera.

From the age of 30, he began drawing “Imaginary Scenery Living in This Era,” and later developed as the “Perspectives” series. This shows the desperate footprints of living positively in the face of criticism of society, difficulties, and anxiety. “Perspective” has been a series of works, and currently exceeds about 280 works.

Graduated from Kyoto Seika University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Western Art Department in 1993

1994 Shiga Prefecture Art Exhibition Art Festival Award

2000 Kyoto Arts and Crafts Exhibition Excellence Award Kyoto Culture Museum

2002 Sakaide Art Grand Prix Honorable Mention ('02'04'05. '03 Outstanding Work Award)

Selected Emerging Art Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (2005)

2003 Kyoto Exhibition Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art Award (Collection Award) ('11 Suda Award)

2004 Shinsei Exhibition Grand Prize (Aoyama Shinseido)

2005 Kyoto Prefecture Arts and Crafts Emerging Selection Exhibition, Kyoto Culture Museum

Eyes of the Two Seas Exhibition

2009 Hokuriku Chunichi Art Exhibition Chunichi Grand Prize Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art

2010 Biennale KUMAMOTO FINAL Grand Prix Kumaichi Award Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art

2012 Kyoto Arts and Crafts Biennale Nihon Keizai Shimbun Award Kyoto Culture Museum

2014 Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition Excellence Award Nippon Broadcasting Award

2016 BIWAKO Grand Prize Exhibition Mr. A Award Shiga Prefectural Museum of Modern Art

2017 Snow Ryosha Florence Award Exhibition Komeri Award Audience Award (8 honorable works)

2019 Makurazaki International Art Award Exhibition Sponsorship Award (Arawaza Sakurajima Award)

2022 Art Olympia 2022 2nd Place Silver Award ('15 Prizes' 17 Prizes' 19 Honorable Works)

Open Call for Japanese Paintings 2022 Award ('12 Excellence Award) (Ginza Nagai Gallery)

Collection of works

Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art/Kyoto

Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art ／ Kumamoto

The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo

Atami Yamaguchi Art Museum/Shizuoka

Komeri Co., Ltd. /Niigata

Omihachiman City/Shiga