Hiroshi Murata

Based in Santa Fe, NM, Hiroshi Murata earned his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, and an MFA from Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT. Murata was an associate professor of art at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, and professor of art at the College of New Jersey, Ewing Township.

Since retiring from the College of New Jersey in 1991, Murata has worked on paintings and completed numerous public commissions. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions in Japan and the United States, including Gallery Tokyo Eizo, Tokyo; Gumps Gallery, San Francisco, CA; and New Jersey State Museum, Trenton.

Murata is the recipient of grants and fellowships including a Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, residency from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation; distinguished research award and faculty research grant from the College of New Jersey; visiting-artist fellowship at Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia; and National Endowment for the Arts visual arts fellowship.

His work is in public collections including deCordova Museum and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, MA; Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL; Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Public Library, and Pratt Graphics Center, New York City; Tokyo University of the Arts; and Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives and records

Artist Info


Born

1941

Japan

Gender

Male

Nationality

Japanese-American