Hidenori Ishii’s work investigates the tenuous relationship between civilization and nature as well as their points of connection. The artist reveals a tenuous axis on which the two worlds serendipitously coexist, merging past and future onto a single plane. His earlier project, IcePlants, was a direct response to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdown and considered how beauty might persist as landscape turns mutant. The possibilities presented in Ishii’s work suggest how we might connect political ecology and social consciousness to face our current ecological crisis.
Ishii has mounted solo exhibitions at Townsend, Water Mill, NY; Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas, TX; and, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD. Ishii has been included in numerous group exhibitions, domestically and internationally, including at venues such as Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU, Wichita Falls, TX; LES Printshop, New York, NY; Park Place Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; ABC No Rio in Exile; Brooklyn, NY; Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas, TX; C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD; Ankara Art in Embassies, Ankara, Turkey; and, Contemporary Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD.
Among his awards and distinctions, Ishii is a 2022 recipient of a New Work Grant by the Queens Council on the Arts; previously he was a Keyholder Resident at the Lower East Side Print Shop in New York City, and a recipient of the Henry Walters Travel Fellowship to Iceland.
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