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Hiromi Stringer is a US-based Japanese artist. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer of drawing and painting at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Stringer received multiple awards including the 2019-2020 Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship, the 2022 Dedalus Foundation Funds for Past fellows and Awardees, a grand prize for Eyes Got It!2014, the 2019-2020 Blue Star Contemporary Berlin Residency Program/ Künstlerhaus Bethanien International Studio Program, Berlin, Germany, the 2021 Summer Arts Faculty Residency program at Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency, Saugatuck, MI and the 2024 Vermont Studio Center residency, Johnson, VT. A resident of the San Antonio area, her works are in public, corporate and private collections in Japan and the US.
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Artist Style: Visual Art: Assemblage, Collage, Conceptual, Contemporary, Decorative/Ornamental, Dream Imagery/Ethereal, Figurative, Illustrative, Narrative/Historical, Nature/Wildlife, Portraiture, Representational, Site-Specific, Social Commentary
Artist Medium: Acrylic; Colored Pencil; Drawing Media; Oil; Vinyl; Watercolor
Artist Statement of Work
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More than a decade ago, when I was in my 30s and working for a company in Japan, I decided to reinvent myself through learning Fine Arts in the US. Coming from my native country of Japan, immersing myself in the world of Contemporary Art and living in the Unites States has been a paradigm shift in terms of language, culture and social practice. Not everything was comfortable experiences. Rather quickly, I developed a strong love-hate relationship with Contemporary Art. This is because me wanting to understand something through art and the fact that I, as a foreigner, often do not have enough knowledge of underlying meaning of socio-cultural practices and language.Someone told me that “strength grows out of your weakness”. This is why I make artwork about art, using language and mundane objects. Mundane quotidian objects of our time surely inform us about our current existence. I consider them as an extension of the broader world. Making artwork has been serving as the means for me to make sense of the world and to negotiate my place in it.
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