Hiroshi Hattori

b. 1932, Japan

Hiroshi Hattori (b. 1932 in Tokyo) is a Japanese painter associated with post-war geometric abstraction, Op Art and hard-edge painting. He graduated from the Bunka Gakuin institute in Tokyo in 1953 and became a member of the Japan Modern Art Association in 1956. In 1963 he studied at the Art Students League of New York and then worked actively in the United States. He took part in the New England Exhibition in Connecticut and received the Larry Aldrich Award in 1969. His work was held in the collection of the Addison Gallery of American Art. In his late-1960s works he explored optical illusion and ambiguous spatial constructions. The 1969 oil painting Super Structure #5 offered by the gallery is painted on a shaped canvas.

1 artwork to rent