Biography
Rintaro Hara
Born in Kanagawa, Japan,1997.
Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University, BFA in 1997.
Completed the postgraduate course at Sandberg Institute, the Netherlands, MFA in 2000.
Solo exhibition
2019 "Uplift and Slope" Kitsune Book & Art (Hyogo)
2018 "Ascending and Descending –white and polar night–"(Port Journey), Forum box, (Helsinki)
2017 "Start From Rotation" FUCHU ART MUSEUM (Tokyo)
2016 "Ascending and Descending" Ayumi Gallery Cave (Tokyo)
2011 "Switching Shuttle" AYUMI GALLERY (Tokyo)
2006 "Made by Cutter" Wi-CANP, Chiba (Japan)
2005 "Ishin-Denshin" Plus Minus Gallery (Tokyo)
2003 "CRITERIUM 56" ART TOWER MITO (Ibaragi)
2000 "Rintaro Hara" Effenaar, Eindhoven, the Netherlands"Rintaro Hara" SBK, (Amsterdam)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 "Japan Media Arts Festival in Kitakyushu" Former Dalian Sea Route Warehouse, (Fukuoka, Japan)
2020 "Splish-Splash-Fair" (Rintaro Hara + Yu Hara), Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art (Niigata, Japan)
2020 "Art Summer Camp" (Rintaro Hara + Yu Hara), Hamada Children's Museum of Art, (Shimane, Japan)
2020 "Résonance du son et de l’objet" Taro Okamoto Museum of Art (kanagawa, Japan)
2020 "Trace" Ayumi Gallery Cave (Tokyo)
2019 "Smart illumination Yokohama 2019" (Rintaro Hara + Yu Hara), zou-no-hana terrace (Kanagawa, Japan)
2019 "Cruise Ping-Pong" (Rintaro Hara + Yu Hara), Nipponmaru(ferry), Japan"Arcade Ping-Pong" (Rintaro Hara + Yu Hara), Marugamemachi Green, (Kagawa, Japan)
2019 "Department store Ping-Pong" (Rintaro Hara + Yu Hara), Nihonbashi Tanakshimaya (Tokyo)
2019 "Splish-Splash-Fair" (Rintaro Hara + Yu Hara), Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art (Niigata, Japan)
2019 "Setouchi Triennale 2019" (Rintaro Hara + Yu Hara), Megijima, (Kagawa, Japan)
2018 "Smart illumination Yokohama 2018" zou-no-hana terrace( Kanagawa, Japan)
2018 "FUJINOYAMA BIENNALE 2018" kyu Katosaketen (Shizuoka, Japan)
2017 "Smart illumination Yokohama 2017" Kannai Sakura Street (Kanagawa, Japan)
2017 "The movement is interesting" A-Lab (Hyogo, Japan)
2017 "Miracle Wonder" Art Laboratory Hashimoto, (Kanagawa, Japan)
2017 "Japan Alps Art Festival"(Rintaro Hara + Yu Hara), Reno Pro&Information Center, (Nagano, Japan)
2016 "FUJINOYAMA BIENNALE 2016" Koyasumihonjin Tokiwatei (Shizuoka, Japan)
2016 "The Railway Museum" Taro Okamoto Museum of Art (kanagawa, Japan)
2016 "Space Art"(Rintaro Hara + Yu Hara),Hamada Children's Museum of Art (Shimane, Japan)
2016 "How Space Turns" Western Washington University, Western Gallery (Bellingham, US)
2016 "JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL in Aomori -into the phantom villages"(Rintaro Hara + Yu Hara), Aomori Museum of Art (Aomori, Japan)
2015 "Phantasmagoria" (Rintaro Hara + Yu Hara with WiCAN), Chiba City Museum of Art (Chiba, Japan)
2015 "Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial" Tsunan Information Center, (Rintaro Hara + Yu Hara, Hirokazu Hiraishi) (Niigata, Japan)
2015 "Wie Raum Wird" Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen (Siegen, Germany)
2015 "Drip" (Rintaro Hara + Yu Hara), Bridge (Tokyo)
2014 "Synthesis" The Reykjavík Art Museum, Hafnarhús, (Reykjavík, Iceland)
2014 "Tesshu!" Hummer Head Studio (Kanagawa, Japan)
2014 "Intersection Point" Ayumi Gallery (Tokyo)
2012 "Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial"(Rintaro Hara + Yu Hara), Tokamachi (Niigata, Japan 2011)
2012 "Osaka Canvas" Cosmo Tower (Osaka, Japan)
2012 "Playground"(Rintaro Hara + Yu Hara), Nangan Bottle Cap Factory (Taipei2010)
2012 "SO+ZO Exhibition"(Rintaro Hara + Yu Hara), Bunkamura Museum (Tokyo)
2008 "Exhibition of Original Pictures for The Moon Princess Being Smelled by.-Japanese old tales remixes-"(Rintaro Hara + Yu Hara), Takashimaya Shinjuku (Tokyo)
2008 "Tomoni Ikiru" Kawasaki City Museum (Kanagawa, Japan)
2007 "Kukan no Mikai" Fujimura Memorial Hall (Yamanashi, Japan)
2007 "Osaka Art Kaleidoscope 2007"(Rintaro Hara + Yu Hara), Osaka Station North District (Osaka, Japan)
2007 "Amusement Park of Contemporary Art" Hamada Children’s Museum of Art (Shimane, Japan)
2006 "Egg of Moebius" 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa (Ishikawa, Japan)
2005 "Toshi to Asobo" Spiral, Tokyo"Reality Check" Yokoyama Memorial Manzù Art Museum(Tokyo Zokei University), (Tokyo)
2005 "Minabiten" Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, (Yamanashi, Japan)
2004 "Take Art Collection" Spiral, Tokyo2003"7th Gunma Biennale for Young Artists" The Museum of Modern Art Gunma, (Gunma, Japan)
2002 "Contact" De Rechter, Eindhoven, the Netherlands "Cross Section" White Space,(Turin, Italy)
2001 "Media message:look thru language" Sendai Mediatheque, (Miyagi, Japan)
2000 "Dubbel Japan" Mariakapel (Hoorn, the Netherlands)
2000 "Vier de Kunstvlaai" Westergasfabriek, (Amsterdam)
1999 "Park of the Future" Westergasfabriek (Amsterdam) 1999 1999 "Rumoer" 1646, (The Hague, the Netherlands)
1999 "Kunst.nrw.nl.masterclass" KHM(The Academy of Media Arts) (Cologne)
Awards
2018 Jury Selections, 21th Japan Media Arts Festival, Art Division
2008 Encouragement Prize, 11th Japan Media Arts Festival, Entertainment Division
2005 Grand Prize at My Christmas Tree Exhibition
2004 Special Prize at 7th Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for Contemporary Art
1996 Encouragement Prize at Kirin Contemporary Award‘96
Art Direction
2014 "Egg of Moebius" Foodarts Studio Kachidoki, Tokyo
2014 Workshop Program, Foodarts Studio Kachidoki, Tokyo