Hiroyuki Oki ACTION!!

We will hold a screening of works by Hiroyuki Oki, who passed away suddenly on October, 2025.

I still can't bring myself to write about him in the past tense. It feels like he might suddenly call or wander aimlessly around here.
Through the camera—the medium closest to his own gaze—he has captured everyday life, endlessly revising his edits as he engaged with the world and continued to map his thoughts. What perspective did this artist use to perceive the world? I wish to take this opportunity to reconsider.

Oki-san, who constantly took Action in response to situations.
This screening is my Action for Hiroyuki Oki.

Whether you knew Ohi-san or not, please come.
(Organized by: Saeko Koyama)

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Screenings

『May 4 070505 Mito MIX』 (2007, 50 min)
『Toshi Shi』 (2020, 12 min)
Related works to 『LAST CITY』 ※Under coordination

※Screenings and number of screenings are subject to change.
※It may take the form of a talk event, but I'd like to decide together with everyone who attends.

Hiroyuki Oki

Born in Tokyo, 1964. Based in Kochi Prefecture, Tokyo, and other locations. Passed away in October 2025.

He began producing video works in the early 1980s while studying in the Department of Architecture at the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Engineering. In 1989, he launched the Matsumae-kun series, a collection of video works made mainly in Matsumae-cho, Hokkaido. In 1990, Swimming Prohibited received the Special Jury Prize at the Image Forum Festival for his film, and in 1996, HEAVEN-6-BOX received the NETPAC Award at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival. His artistic practice is not limited to video; it also encompasses drawing, painting, live screening, installation, and performance.

With a camera in hand, Oki traveled around the world, including not only in Japan, but also Arizona, Israel, China, Tibet, and Congo. From the correlative nexus of travel, lifestyle, and philosophy, he depicts a world endowed with a complex composition. He has been given the highest accolades both inside and outside Japan for the unique poetic expression of his videos, featuring a huge quantity of images that follow each other in rapid succession, and has also taken part in numerous international exhibitions.

Oki has taken part in many exhibitions, the main ones including “ART/DOMESTIC Temperature of the Time”, Setagaya Art Museum (Tokyo, 1999); “How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age”, Walker Art Center / Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Minneapolis / Turin, 2003); “Roppongi Crossing: New Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art 2004”, Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2004); “The Sharjah Biennial 8”, Qanat Al Qasba (Sharjah, 2007); “Out of the Ordinary”, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, 2007); “The Door into Summer: The Age of Micropop”, Art Tower Mito (Ibaraki 2007); “Hiroshima Trilogy: 70th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing Part 1 – Life=Work”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Hiroshima, 2015); “Aichi Triennale 2016 : Rainbow Caravan – Homo Faber”, Hotta Shoji Co. Building (Aichi 2016); “Doing History!”, Fukuoka Art Museum (Fukuoka, 2016); “M+ Moving Image Collection”, M+ (Hong Kong, 2021); “Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2023: Technology?”, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (Tokyo, 2023); “Abstract Incarnation”, ANOMALY (Tokyo, 2024) and “Potential not to be and not to do”, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (Aichi, 2024-2025).

Additionally, two of his films were added to the collection of the National Film Archive of Japan in 2022. 
In 2023, I Like You, I Like You Very Much (1994) was invited to be screened at the Barbican Center in London, and Color Eyes (1992) was screened on a large-scale outdoor screen at M+ in Hong Kong. His solo exhibition is scheduled to be held at the Museum of Art, Kochi in January 2027.