Hiroko Okada
Hiroko Okada (born 1970) also known as Okada Hiroko, is a Japanese contemporary artist, known for her provocative work that challenges societal standards around the construct of family, love, childbirth, and child-rearing. She works within the mediums of video art, photography, painting, installation, and performance.
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Hiroko Okada
- Name
- Hiroko Okada
- Born
- 1970
- Birthplace
- Tokyo, Japan
- Education
- Tama Art University
- Occupation
- Visual artist
- Spouse
- Makoto Aida
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
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Hiroko Okada (born 1970) also known as Okada Hiroko, is a Japanese contemporary artist, known for her provocative work that challenges societal standards around the construct of family, love, childbirth, and child-rearing. She works within the mediums of video art, photography, painting, installation, and performance.
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Hiroko Okada (born 1970) is a conceptual artist and painter, of Japanese nationality. The conceptual artist was born in Setagaya. Hiroko Okada was educated at Tama Art University.
Languages used include Japanese. Works are held at Brooklyn Museum.
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• Name — Hiroko Okada • Native Name — 岡田裕子 • Other Names — Okada Hiroko • Born — 1970 • Birthplace — Tokyo, Japan • Education — Tama Art University • Occupation — Visual artist • Spouse — Makoto Aida • Children — 1
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Hiroko Okada was born in 1970 in Tokyo, Japan. She attended Tama Art University, where she graduated in with a BA degree in painting (1993). She is married to artist Makoto Aida. Together they have son Torajiro Aida (born in 2001), who is a blockchain software engineer. The family formed an art performance group called "Aidake", in which they mocked the traditional family roles of children in a 2015 performance "Recital" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. Okada and Aida have also worked collaboratively on alternative puppet theater troop called "Gekidan Shiki". "The Delivery by Male Project" (2002) is a video work by Okada about a pregnant man named "S.K." who doesn’t want a family but does want a baby. Okada's artwork was part of the group exhibition "Global Feminisms" (2007) at Brooklyn Museum, curated by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin. Her work is part of public museum collections, including at the Brooklyn Museum.
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Hiroko Okada born at Setagaya.
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- 1.Reilly, Maura. Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art. Merrell. 2007. 978-0-87273-157-8.
- 2.Zohar, Ayelet. Postgender: Gender, Sexuality and Performativity in Japanese Culture. Cambridge Scholars. 43. 2009. 978-1-4438-0990-0.
- 3.会田誠一家の息子 寅次郎（17）を高校生エンジニア・アーティストに育てた、"無理をしない子育て術"｜草野絵美とスーパーティーンの「わかってくれない親の口説き方講座」#003. NEUT Magazine. 2019-05-13.
- 4.Artist. Koganecho Bazaar 2016. 2016.
- 5.会田誠、東京都現代美術館による撤去要請の経緯明かす クレームは1件だった. ハフポスト. 2015-07-25.
- 6.McKirdy, Andrew. Artist Aida defiant over latest work. The Japan Times. 2015-07-28.
- 7.岡田裕子+会田誠の劇団の映画、飯村隆彦のライブもあるアートフェス「IAFT16/17」. webDICE. November 6, 2016.
- 8.Freedman, Alisa. Introducing Japanese Popular Culture. Routledge. 502. 2018-01-02. 978-1-317-52893-7.
- 9.Hiroko Okada “Double Future”（Mizuma Art Gallery - Ichigaya）. Tokyo Art Beat. 2019.
- 10.Armstrong, Carol. “Global Feminisms” at Brooklyn Museum. Artforum.com.
- 11.Schjeldahl, Peter. Women's Work: Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. The New Yorker. April 9, 2007.
- 12.Future Plan #2, Hiroko Okada. Brooklyn Museum.
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The authorities additionally record the heading Okada Hiroko. Her recorded language was Japanese. She married Makoto Aida.
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