井上廣子
Hiroko Inoue

Profile:
Born in Osaka. Having studied textile and dyeing in Okinawa for two years from 1974. Since 1995, she has been producing her works with a motif of window, from an ordinary residence's to an isolated institution's, in various places of the world. Taking advantage of being awarded the City of Du¨sseldorf and Goethe-Institute Kansai Prize at Osaka Triennial in 1988 she started producing her works in Germany in 1999. �Since then, she has grew her relationship between German art institutions, her activity includes exhibitions at numbers of museums in many German districts. She had also stayed in Austria for a year as a Special Advisor for Cultural Exchange of Japan's Governmental Agency of Cultural Affairs from 2005. In 2007, while lecturing at Clemson University, South Carolina, she participated in a project of producing public art using only organic materials. Her major solo exhibitions include; Hillside Forum, Tokyo in 2008; Jugendstiltheater, Otto Wagner Spital, Vienna in 2005; Kunstmuseum Alten Post, Mu¨lheim an der Ruhr, among others.

Awards:
2007 Japanese − Austrian Committee for the 21st Century
2007 Special Advisor for Cultural Exchange of Japan's Governmental Agency of Cultural Affairs
2001 Contemporary Art Works n City Vision-Nets, Curator’s Choice
1998 Osaka Triennial, City of Du¨sseldorf and Goethe-Institut Kansai Prize

Collections:
The Japan Foundation, Tokyo
Osaka Prefecture, Osaka
City of Vienna, Vienna
Clemson University, South Carolina
Museums Quartier, Wien