Hiro Yokose

Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light in the sky and reflections on the water. His works are elegant landscapes that impart the viewer with a sense of contemplation and stillness.  His technique involves a unique layering of beeswax and oil paint giving his work the incredibly rich sense of depth and texture.  Yokose’s painting style evokes a traditional Japanese painting aesthetic of delicate, lyrical greens, browns, and blues, yet the atmospheric works posses their won sense of serenity and postmodernist balance between painterly abstraction and representation.   The new work is punctuated with warmer golden casts of light to elicit pure and tranquil moments of luminosity and space.  Playing with the viewer’s perception Yokose’s sensual works invite engagement in a simultaneous experience of recognition and mystery.

Hiro Yokose’s work is included in many public collections including San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Goldman Sachs and Co., San Francisco, CA; Microsoft, Redmond, WA; Boeing Corp., Chicago, IL; TransAmerica Corporation, San Francisco, CA; Prudential, New York, NY; and Citibank, New York, NY.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2012 Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2011 Winston Watcher Fine Art, New York, NY
2010 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2009 Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2008 Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2008  Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2007 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2007 Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY
2007 Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2005 Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2005 Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005  Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2005 Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2004 Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY
2004 Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2004 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2003 Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2002 Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2002 Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2002 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2001 Winston Wachter Mayer Fine Art, New York, NY
2001 Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2001 Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 SOMA Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1999 Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
1999 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1999 Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1998 Stephen Haller, New York, NY
1998 Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1997 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1997 C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1996 Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1996 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1993 Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Natural Visions, Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2007 The Last Seduction, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Art Chicago 2006, Chicago, IL
2006 Sliding Scale, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY
2006 Please do not touch, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY
2005 Art Chicago 2005, Chicago, IL
2005 Art London, London, England
2005 Aqua Art Miami, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Miami Beach, FL
2004 San Francisco Art Fair
2004 Art Chicago 2004, Chicago, IL
2004 Art London, London, England
2003 San Francisco Art Fair
2003 Art London, London, England
2003 Art Chicago 2003, Chicago, IL
2002 San Francisco Art Fair
2002 Art Chicago 2002, Chicago, IL
2001 San Francisco Art Fair
2001 Art Chicago 2001, Chicago, IL
2000 San Francisco Art Fair
2000 Art Chicago 2000, Chicago, IL
2000 Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
1999 Knoxville Art Museum, Knoxville, TN
1999 The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
1999 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha NE
1999 Catherine Clark Gallery San Francisco, CA
1999 SOMA Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1999 Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
1999 Art Chicago 1999, Chicago, IL
1999 San Francisco Art Fair
1998 Art Chicago 1998, Chicago, IL
1998 San Francisco Art Fair
1998 The Armory Show, The Art Dealers Assoc., New York, NY
1998 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1998 Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
1998 SOMA gallery La Jolla CA
1998 Bentley Gallery Scottsdale AZ
1997 Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR
1997 Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1997 Stephen Heller Gallery, New York, NY
1997 The Armory Show, The Art Dealers Assoc., New York, NY
1997 Tamaya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997 Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
1997 Art Chicago 1997, Chicago, IL
1997 Santa Fe Art Fair, Santa Fe, NM
1997 Gramercy Art Fair, New York, NY
1997 Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1997 Summer 1997, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1996 A Body of Art, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
1996 The Armory Show, The Art Dealers Assoc., New York, NY
1996 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1996 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
1996 New Voices, New Visions, Kennedy Museum of American Art, Ohio University, Athens, OH
1996 Tamaya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1996 Art Chicago 1996, Chicago, IL
1996 Medium Rare, Round Table Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, NY
1996 Artists in NY, Galerie Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain
1996 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
1996 The Armory show, The Art Dealers Assoc., New York, NY
1996 Members Gallery Exhibition, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1996 Tamaya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Black and White Art since the Sixties, The Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1996 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA,
1995 Art 1995, Chicago, IL
1994 Paintings from NJ collections, NJ Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
1994 Wax, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Invitational 1994, Little John Sternau Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Gallery Artists, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1994 The Armory Show, The Art Dealers Assoc., New York, NY
1994 Small Works, NYU Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY
1994 Primarily Paint, Texas A& M University Gallery, College Station, TX
1994 Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Art Chicago 1994, Chicago, IL
1994 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1993 Tamaya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1993 Primarily Paint, Texas A & M University Gallery, College Station, TX
1993 Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Art Chicago 1993, Chicago, IL
1993 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1993 American Bible Society Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Primarily Paint, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
1992 Small Works International, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY

PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Boeing Corp., Chicago, IL
Citibank, New York, NY
Exxon Corp., TX
Fidelity Invest. Corp., Boston, MA
Goldman Sachs and Co., San Fransico, CA
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Lincoln Nat’l Corp., Fort Wayne, IN
Kennedy Museum of American Art, OH
Marnell Corrao, Las Vegas, NV
Miami Dade College, Florida
Microsoft, Redmond, WA
Prudential, New York, NY
The Ritz Carlton Hotel, Washington D.C
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
TransAmerica Corporation, San Fransisco, CA
Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas, NV

PUBLICATIONS
2003 Artner, Alan. “Hiro Yokose.” The Chicago Tribune
2002 Harbacek, Mary. The New York Art World
2001 Johnson, Ken.  The New York Times
1999 Pincus, Robert L. “Intriguing Wax Art, fires the Imagination,” The Union Tribune
1998 Buchholz, Barbara. Chicago Tribune
1998 Reena, Jason.  Asian Art News
1998 Brook, Mason.  “Report of the ADDA’s Tenth Anniversary Art Show” The Art Newspaper
1997 Torri, Vic. “Paintings,” New York Art
1997 Dorsey, John.  “the Illuminating Use of Light,”  The Baltimore Sun/ May
1997  Callum, Jerry. “Four Young Artists Aimed at the Stars,” Journal Constitution
1996 Caruso, Andrea.  The Athens News
1996 McQuaid, Cate.  “Hiro Yokose,” The Boston Globe
1996 Melrod, George.  “Small Wonders,” Art & Antiques
1996 Buchholz, Barbara B.  “Hiro Yokose at Gallery A,” The Chicago Tribune
1996 Steiner, Katja.  “New York Art-Hiro Yokose,” Novalis (Switzerland)
1996 Deyneka, Elisa.  “Essence and Persuasion,” Artvoice
1996 Parcellin, Paul. “Hiro Yokose: New Paintings,” Art New England
1996 Raynor, Vivian.  “Mysterious Abstractions,” The New York Times
1996 Stapen, Nancy.  “New Talent at Alpha,” The Boston Globe