Hiroshi Murata

Japanese/American (1941)

About the artist:

EDUCATION M.F.A. Yale University School of Art and Architecture, 1966 B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design, 1964 EMPLOYMENT Self-Employed Artist Professor, Art Department, The College of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ, 1972-1991 (retired) Associate Professor, Art Department, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 1966-1970 SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2004 Gallery Tokyo Eizo, Tokyo, Japan 2002 Gallery Tokyo Eizo, Tokyo, Japan 1994 Gumps Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1990 Tokyo Central Museum Annex, Tokyo, Japan 1990 Aichi University of Art and Architecture, Nagoya, Japan 1990 Rabbet Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ 1989 Holman Gallery, Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ 1987 Genest Gallery, Lambertville, NJ 1983 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ 1982 Pratt Gallery, Amherst, MA 1981 Cafe Gallery, Burlington, NJ 1979 Nitta Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1976 Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York, NY 1972 Galerie Mukai, Tokyo, Japan 1970 Galerie Mukai and Formes Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1969 Galerie Mukai, Tokyo, Japan SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2004 “Abstraction since 1950: Selected Paintings From the Museum Collection”, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ 2003 “Hackl, Murata,Keating: Perfect Together,Stedman Gallery, Camden, NJ 2002 “American Abstract Artists 50th Anniversary Print Portfolio”, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN 2001 “Boxed In”, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ 2000 "Artists of Hunterdon County", Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ 1997 "Group Exhibition", New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ 1996 "Fenix Opening Exhibition", Fenix Gallery, Taos, NM 1994 "New Jersey Arts Annual", New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ 1993 "Master Prints from the Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking", Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ 1992 "The Persistence of Abstraction", Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KA 1990 "American Abstract Artists", 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, NY COMMISSIONS Commissioned by New Jersey Transit-Southern New Jersey LRT. 1997 - 2003 Art work designed for twenty stations. Member of KHMK design team.(Katherine Hackl, Hiroshi Murata, Marilyn Keating) Commissioned by New Jersey Transit. Penn Station, Newark City Subway Mezzanine, Newark, NJ. 1998 Commissioned by University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Martland Building. Wood marquetry mural for the 15th floor lobby. "Ars Medicinalis" 1996 Commissioned by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Aidekman Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience. Sculpture "Tilt" for Aidekman Center Court Yard, Newark, NJ, 1992 Commissioned by State of New Jersey, Office of Legislative Services, Wood marquetry mural for State House Assembly Majority Conference Room, Trenton, NJ, 1990-1991 Commissioned by Port Authority of New York & New Jersey Art Work for Terminal C, Newark International Airport, 1985-1987 Catalogue preparation, "Offset Prints" Lehigh University Art Gallery, Bethlehem, PA, 1983 "Uplands, A Portfolio of Six Prints" Citizens for Park land, Flemington, NJ, 1982 "Niji", Offset lithograph for portfolio of original lithographs, Massachusetts Review, XX, No.2, 1979 "Murasaki", edition (76) of lithographs for Pratt Graphic Center Portfolio. Pratt Graphic Center, Pratt Institute, New York, NY, 1978 "Edition of 30 lithographs for CAPS portfolio", New York State Council on the Arts, New York, NY, 1976 "Capsule", edition (50) of five prints for Galerie Mukai Portfolio, Galerie Mukai, Tokyo, Japan, 1972 Commissioned by J. Yoshimura Architect, Theater Curtain for Aoyama Tower Building, Tokyo, Japan, 1972 Cover Design, Three Books, Shinchosha Publishers, Tokyo, Japan, 1970 Cover Design, "Asahi Journal", Tokyo, Japan, 1969 Commissioned "Flower", edition (210) of three color etching,International Graphic Arts Society, New York, NY, 1966 GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS 1992 Mid Atlantic Arts foundation (Fabric Workshop Residency) 1987-1989 Distinguished Research Award, Trenton State College 1981-1987 Faculty Research Grant, Trenton State College 1985, 1987 Brandywine Workshop, Visiting Artists Fellowship 1979, 1983 Visual Arts Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts 1975 Visual Arts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts 1972 Visual Arts Fellowship, CAPS, New York State Council on the Arts SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Aidekman Center, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH College of New Jersey, Trenton NJ DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA Hollywood Art Museum, Hollywood, FL Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, Tokyo, Japan Mercer County Heritage Commission, Trenton, NJ Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL Mount Holyoke College Museum, South Hadley, MA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA National Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ New York Public Library Collection, New York, NY Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Pratt Graphic Center, New York, NY Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN Tokyo University College of Art, Tokyo, Japan Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ

Hiroshi Murata

Japanese/American (1941)

(2 works)

About the artist:

EDUCATION M.F.A. Yale University School of Art and Architecture, 1966 B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design, 1964 EMPLOYMENT Self-Employed Artist Professor, Art Department, The College of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ, 1972-1991 (retired) Associate

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