Who am I?

Shigeko HIRAKAWA

Environmental Artist

Born in Kurume (Fukuoka, Japan) in 1953.
Moves to Tokyo in 1961.
Begins to work as a visual artist in 1980.
Living and working in France receiving a French scholarship in 1983.
Settles in artist studio of Châtenay-Malabry (7 km in the south of Paris) allocated by French Minister of Culture in 1992.

Catalogs & Documents

Education & Diplomas

1983-1986 Student of the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Olivier Debré's studio, Paris
(1983-1986 Scholarship holder of the French Governement).
1976-1980 Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku/ Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Graduating in 1980 (Oil painting), Tokyo
1971-1975 Tokyo Joshi Daigaku/ Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Graduationg in 1975 (History of Japan), Tokyo

Awards

2006-2007 -  Grant holder, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (New York, U.S.A.)
2003 - Grant holder, Cultural Affairs Department (Bunka-Cho) of the Japanese Government
1992 - Project Prize, "Sculptors in the City: Homage to Henri Gaudier-Brzeska" (St-Jean-de-Braye, Fr).
1989 - First Adam Prize. Salon de la Jeune Peinture (Grand-Palais, Paris, Fr).
1987 - Obtains artist's status in France.
1985 - Special Mention of Honor of the Jury, "The 17th International Painting Festival" Modern Art Museum/ Château-Musée (Cagnes-sur-Mer, Fr).
1983-1986 - Three-year scholarship holder of the French Government  

Experience

< Universities >

2011, 2009, 2007, 2002, 1995 - Guest professor, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo)
2004 - Guest speaker about "Environmental Art and Gardens" for the 19th cultural week on the theme of  "Gardens", Ecole supérieure Estienne des arts et industries graphiques (Paris)
2002 - Guest professor, Waseda University and Meiji University (Tokyo, Japan)

< Elementary & Secondary Education >

2010 - Guest teacher, Jean Ray Elementary School (Bugue, France)

2008, 2009 - Guest teacher, Louis Sandra Junior High School (Anizy-le-Château), Paul Claudel high School (Laon, France) Elementary School (Wattwiller, France)

< Member of Jury >

1994 - Member of the Jury, National Superior Diploma of Artistic Expression, (IATBO University, Brest, Fr.) 

1990, 1989, 1988, 1987 - Member of the Selection Committee, Salon de la Jeune Peinture (Paris)

Solo Shows

2011 Kanaz Forest of Creation "Shigeko Hirakawa, Air in Peril? Forest of Photosynthesis", Catalog: Air in Peril? Forest of Photosynthesis (Awara, Japan)

2010  Maison des Arts d'Antony Art Center "Human Rainbow" (Antony, France)

2009 Louis Pasteur Junior High School in Noyon,  Artist in Residence & Solo Show "Dream of Trees - Samar", (Noyon, France)
2008　Multimedia-library Louis Aragon "Photography of 'America, New York - Multi-divers-city" Solo Show

in the framework of "America, all in all" (Choisy-le-Roi, France)
2008 Gallery Pascal Vanhoecke, in the framework of the Biannual of the City of Cachan on the theme of Sustainable Development (Cachan, France)

2007 Mining Museum of the Nord/Pas de Calais Region/ Energy Science Center, "Tree of Photosynthesis"  (Lewarde, France)
2006 Argenteuil City Hall Grounds "Tree of Photosynthesis". Organization of the City of Argenteuil. Catalog: Tree of Photosynthesis (Argenteuil, Fr.)
2005 Mining Museum of the Nord/Pas de Calais Region/ Energy Science Center, "Air, lung". Commission of the Mining Museum (Lewarde, France)
2005 Gallery Parisud "Air and Water" (Cachan, France)
2003 Grounds of the Château d'O "Connected Air & Domesticated Water 2003". Commission of the Herault Department Council (Montpellier, France)
Pamphlet:Connected Air & Domesticated Water 2003 (Montpellier, France)
2001 Maison des Arts of Malakoff, Contemporary Art Center  "Eau Suivie" :(Water Followed), Catalog: Water Followed (Malakoff, Fr.)
2001 Choisy-Le-Roi City Hall "Gesture" (Choisy-le-Roi City, Fr.)
2000 Gallery Pascal Vanhoecke - CIACC - (Paris & Cachan, Fr.)
1998 Choisy-le-Roi City Hall, Solo Show organized by The Department of Fine Arts of Choisy-le-Roi City
Catalog: Selected Artworks 1993 - 1998 (Choisy-Le-Roi, Fr.)
1995 Gallery Lieu - Place "Photo Document in Europe" (Tokyo, Japan)
1995 Gallery Tom "More than 10 years in Paris" (Tokyo, Japan)
1995 Adelhauser Kloster Natural & Ethnological Museum and Schwarzes Kloster City Gallery;
"Torus Decoloration" organized by GEDOK / German Women Artists Association (Freiburg, Germany)
1994 Gallery Lunami (Tokyo, Japan), Catalogue: Shigeko HIRAKAWA recent works
1993 Gallery Imperts (organased by BWA National Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland)
1992 Gallery Pascal Polar (Brussels, Belgium)
1991 Factory Mutual International Ltd. in collaboration with Gallery Jacques Losserand (Annecy, Fr.)
1991 Gallery Jacques Losserand, Catalog: Shigeko HIRAKAWA (Annecy, Fr.)
1991 Gallery Espace Archidé (Paris, Fr.)
1990 Gallery Athisma (Lyon, Fr.)
1988 Gallery Athisma (Lyon, Fr.)
1986 Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, Fr.)
1986 Galerie 8 (Paris, Fr.)
1985 Maison du Japon (Cité Internationnale Universitaire, Paris, Fr.)
1984 Maison du Japon (Cité Internationnale Universitaire, Paris, Fr.)
1982 Gallery Te (Tokyo, Japan)

Selected Group Shows

2011 Galerie Pascal Polar (Brussels, Belgium)

2011 Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke "Spring Exhibition" (Cachan)

2011 French Union of Chemical Industries (U.I.C.) "L'Art en la matière, 4 artworks in 4 cities", in the framework of the International Year of Chemistry designed by the U.N.E.S.C.O. (Marseille)

2010  "Rouen impressionnée" City of Rouen, in the framework of the "Normandie impressionniste", Catalog: Rouen impressionnée - Quand l'art contemporain s'empare du paysage. Edition des Falaises, ISBN 978-2-84811-119-3. (Rouen, France)

2009 Health and Climate Foundation (Washington, DC) "Paysages altérés" (Genève, Suisse)

2009 Les Rives de l'Art Association "Ephémère" (Dordogne, France)

2009 Association Arène Collection, Arène Artothèque "Territoire (s)" (Laon, France)

2008 "La 11ème Fête de l'Eau à Wattwiller", Fête-de-l'Eau à Wattwiller Association (Wattwiller, France)

2008 "Besoin d'Air", organization de l'association 'Paris fait sa comedie', la Mairie du 18ème arrondissement de Paris (France)

2007 "Parcours contemporain" Document. (Fontenay-le-Compte)  

2007 Galerie St Jacques "Painture japonaise" (Ville de St Quentin, France)

2006 Festival de l'Oh (Choisy-le Roi, France)

2005 Monos Gallery "Michael BURGES, Shigeko HIRAKAWA et artiste invitée : Ulrike BOLENZ" (Liège, Belgique)
2004 Maison Pierres et Nature, Parcour d'Art Contemporain "des toiles, des astres" (Mellé, France)
2003 L'Agora "14e Exposition Internationale d'Art Contemporain, détour 03 / Les Quatre Eléments",
Catalogue: détour 03 / Les Quatre Eléments (Billère, France)

2002 "Festival du Japon" la ville de Phalempin (Phalempin, Fr)

2002 Maison de la culture du Japon "Exposition du NAC", Catalogue: NAC  (Paris, Fr.)

2001 Mécénart.com "vingt artistes contemporains" (Paris, Fr.)
2001 Festival de l'Eau "Parcours Sculpté 3", la ville de St-Amand-les-Eaux, Catalogue (St-Amand-les-Eaux, Fr.)
1999 Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke - CIACC - "Exposition inaugurale de l'espace Cachan" (Cachan, Fr.)
1999 Toki Art Space (Tokyo, Japon.)
1998 Mairie du 6ème Arrondissement de Paris "Ateliers Choisis" (Paris, Fr.).
1998 Maison de la culture du Japon "Exposition du NAC", catalogue: NAC  (Paris, Fr.)
1997 Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke, CIACC "Exposition couplée" (Paris, Fr.)
1997 Bateau Lavoir "Sélection des artistes Japonais / L'année du Japon" , catalogue (Paris, Fr.)
1997 Musée de la ville d'Akita "Regarder par le toucher", catalogue (Akita, Japon)
1997 Musée Départemental de Miyazaki "Touch-me Exposition", catalogue: Touch me Exposition (Miyazaki, Japon)
1997 Musée Despiau-Wlérick et la ville de Mont de Marsan "Mont-de-Marsan sculptures, le Japon",
catalogue: Mont-de-Marsan sculptures, le Japon, Sculptures in-situ (Mont-de-Marsan,France)
1995 Centre d'Art de Neuchâtel "Livres de Chevet" (Neuchâtel, Suisse)
1994 "Orne Art Festival - dans 8 châteaux", catalogue (Orne, Fr.)
1993 Galerie Janus Avivson "11 artistes japonais en Europe", catalogue (Londres, UK)
1993 Galerie Espace Archidé "3 artistes de la galerie" (Paris, Fr.)
1992 Concours "Sculpteurs dans la ville; Hommage à Henri Gaudier-Brzeska"
avec la participation du Ministère de la Culture. Catalogue: Sculputres dans la ville (St-Jean-de-Braye, Fr.)
1991 Point JAL, Galerie d'Art Japan Air Line "Art Métabole" (Paris, Fr.)
1991 Centre d'Art Contemporain de la Ville de Rouen (Rouen, Fr.)
1990 Galerie Pablo Picasso "Féminin Singulier" Association Féminin Singulier. Catalogue: Féminin Singulier (Denain, Fr.)
1990 Galerie Jacques Losserand "Exposition inaugurale de la galerie" (Annecy, Fr.)
1990 Galerie Kohlenhof "Metamorphose des Raums" (Nurnberg, Allemagne)
1989 Centre Culturel Pablo Picasso "Espaces éclatés - exposition en plein air" (Trith-St-Léger, Fr.)
1989 Centre d'Art Actuel (Lachassagne, Fr.)
1989 Centre d'Animation Lyrique et Culturel de Rochefort, catalogue (Rochefort, Fr.)
1988 Centre d'Art Actuel "Art 88" (Lachassagne, Fr.)
1988 Centre d'Animation Lyrique et Culturel de Rochefort
"Jeunes créateurs dans la ville - 40 artistes dans 30 lieux de la ville ", catalogue: eunes créateurs dans la ville (Rochefort, Fr.)  Catalogue
1987 Centre d'Art Actuel "Lyon - Japon" (Lachassagne, Fr.)
1986 Centre d'Art Actuel" Autour de Degottex" (Lachassagne, Fr.)
1986 Cité Internationale des Arts "Exposition des artistes résidents '86 "(Paris, Fr.)
1985 Cité Internationale des Arts "Exposition des artistes résidents '85" (Paris, Fr.)
1985 Hôtel du département du Val d'Oise "12 artistes japonais",  Document. (Cergy-Pontoise, Fr.) 
1985 Galerie Bernanos" Shigeko HIRAKAWA et Mark ALDERTON "(Paris, Fr.)
1983 Galerie Micro "Photo Express in Holland from Tokyo" (Hollande)
1982 Galerie Wa "Photo Express in New York from Tokyo" (New York, USA)
1981 Galerie Te "Exposition Couplée" (Tokyo, Japon)
1980 Galerie G. Art Gallery "Avoisiner" (Tokyo, Japon)

International Exhibitions

2011 The 5th International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Melle "Habiter la Terre" (Melle)

2010 CHIC ART FAIRE (Paris)

2009 The National Art Center, Tokyo "Artist File 2009"　

Catalog：ARTIST FILE 2009、"Tree of Photosynthesis, Shigeko Hirakawa" No.10. (Tokyo, Japan)
2007  Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning "Jamaica Flux" (New York, U.S.A.)

2007  Museum of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
"Vers Paris/　To Paris, One-Hundred-Year Dcaream of Painters", Catalog (Tokyo)
2006 Province of Liège "Poetical Spaces", Catalog  (Château of Jehay, Liège, Belgium)
2006 Tecomah-School of Environment and of Life "Les Environnementales, With and In the Nature"
The Biennial of Contemporary Art, Catalog (Jouy-en-Josas, France)
2004 Art Omi International Artist Colony, residency program (New York, U.S.A.)
1999 "Progetto...in Cubo" - A contemporary art multivision projection of 480 artists from all over the world - (Firenze, Italy)
1999 Salon de la Jeune Peinture (Espace Quai Branly, Paris, Fr.)
1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985   Salon de la Jeune Peinture (Grand Palais, Paris, Fr.)
1998 Christie's "Asian Avant-Garde", Catalog: Asian Avant-Garde (London, U.K.)
1997 Petit-Leez Castle (Grand-Leez, Belgium)
1997, 1996, 1995, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987 -  Salon de Mai (Grand Palais, Paris, Fr.)
1994  BWA National Gallery AWANGARDA "4 Sculptors", Catalog: 4 Sculptors (Wroclaw, Poland)
1991, 1990, 1988, 1987, 1985 Salon des Grands et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui (Grand Palais, Paris, Fr.)
1990, 1987, 1985   Salon de Montrouge (Montrouge, Fr.)
1990  International Mérignac Biennale (Mérignac, Fr.)
1988 Art Jonction International (Nice, Fr.)
1988, 1986 Salon Comparaisons (Grand Palais, Paris, Fr.)
1986 Yamanashi Prefectorial Museum "International Exhibition of Small Works" (Yamanashi, Japan)
1985 Modern Art Museum / Château Musée "The 17th International Painting Festival",
Catalogue: The 17th International Painting Festival (Cagne-sur-Mer, Fr.)
1984  Salon d'Automne (Grand Palais, Paris, Fr.)
1983  Tokyo Prefectorial Museum "The 16th Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Mainichi-Shinbun" (Tokyo, Japan)

Public Orders

2003 "Connected Air & Domesticated Water", commissioned by the Departmental Council of the Hérault for the Grounds of the Château d'O for Festival in May, Pamphlet: Connected Air & Demesticated Water 2003
2001 "Red Ellipse" artwork: purchased by Josai International University (Chiba, Japon)
1999 "Five Red Spheres" : collection of the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo
Catalogue: Five Red Spheres (Komaba, Tokyo, Japan)
1992 "Flotte Ile" sculptures: 1% Architecture. Realisation of a monument on the theme of ARTS & HIGH SCHOOLS,

organized by the Conseil Régional d'Ile de France. Van Gogh High School (Aubergenville, Fr.)
Catalogue: Le 1% Artistique en région Ile-de-France 1951-1993 (The 1% Artworks in the Ile-de-France Region 1951-1993)

Bibliography

Radio & Television Reportages

2011, October - Interview on Solo Show "Air in Peril? Forest of Photosynthesis" at Kanaz : Television Fukui (Japan)
2010, August - Interview "Appel d'air in Rouen" : France info radio

2010, May 12 - Interview "Appel d'air" :  La Vignette, France Culture

2008, May 27- Local News : France 3 TELEVISION Haute-Alsace, Festival of Water (Wattwiller, France)  

2007, June-July - Tree of Photosynthesis in Lewarde, Mining Museum : France Bleu Nord Radio, RDF Radio TO, Radio Canal Sambre (Nord/Pad de Calais Region, France)

2006, June 9- Ile-de-France 12/13 "Les Environnementale in Jouy-en-Josas": France 3 TELEVISION  Ile-de-France (Ile-de-France, France)
2006, Juin 12 - "Chronicle of Frédérick Gersal" : France Info radio (France)
2005 October - Divertimento, RTV REGIONAL (Liège, Belgium)
2003 May - Local News Festival in Montpellier : FRANCE 3 TELEVISION (Montpellier, France)
1997 May-June - Local News: FRANCE 3 TELEVISION (Mont de Marsan, France)
(Exhibition "Mont de Marsan Sculptures" 7 Artists in residence)
1997 May - Local News: RADIO-FRANCE, EUROPE 2, RADIO MDM (Mont de Marsan, France)
(Exhibition "Mont de Marsan Sculptures" 7 Artists in residence)
1994 March - Cultural News, WROCLAW TELEVISION (Wroclaw, Poland)
(Exhibition "4 sculptors at the BWA National Gallery" in Wroclaw)
1992 November - Kunstzaak / Art Affairs, BRT FLEMISH TELEVISION (Belgium)
(Solo Show at the Gallery Pascal Polar, Brussels, Belgium)
1991 May - Local News, LOCAL TELEVISION (Annecy, Fr.)
(Solo Show at the Gallery Losserand, Annecy)
1991 April - The World of Beauty "Traces of Dialogues - Installations of Shigeko HIRAKAWA",
NIPPON TELEVISION NETWORK CORPORATION (NTV),
Director: Mutsuo KATO, 45 minute-program, Broadcasted in Japan on April 20th, 1991.
(Solo Show at the Gallery Espace Archidé, Paris, Fr.)

Articles (selection) & Publishings

2011, October 20 - "Artwork alerts human pollutions" Fukui Shimbun Daily Journal (Fukui, Japan)
2010 - "Rouen impressionnée - Quand l'art contemporain s'empare du paysage" Edition des Falaises and City of Rouen, December 2010, ISBN 978-2-84811-119-3. 

2010 - "Jardins écologiques", ISBN 978-2-916977-11-9, Sophie Barbaux, Published by ICI Interface (France, China)

2009 - "ARTIST FILE 2009 -　Contemporary Artists, Document of the Exhibition" Documentary catalog P.8-11.

The National Art Center, Tokyo (Japon)

2009.7 - Holbein, History of Art for Peinters 76　"SHIGEKO HIRAKAWA, Visualizing Tangent Points between Nature and Human", BIJUTUTECHO BT July 2009, p.129-132　(Yoko Hayashi, Japan)

2009.7 - Special volum: Actuality of Outdoor Artworks "New Forms of Art", OGASAWARA-RYU - SÔKA July 2009 p.19. (Mari Nakayama, Japan)

2009.5 - "What Tree of Photosynthesis Shows Us", IKEBANA-RYUSEI May 2009 p.26-28. (Makiyo Matsushima, Japan)

2008, June 3 - Wattwiller/Festival of Water "The Fairy Fluorescein", DERNIERES NOUVELLES DE L'ALSACE (Alsace, France)

2008, June 2 - "Wattwiller, Children made sensitive to water by art", LA THUR ET DOLLER (S.P., Fance) 

2007, November 15 - "L'Art Contemporain", TDC National Education Review (Fance)
2007, Audiovisuel Encyclopedia of Contemporary Art -Shigeko Hirakawa, DVD: 10 mns　IMAGO ART　（France）

2007, July 13 - Exhibition Land Art Ecologic at the Center of Mining History, LA VOIX DU NORD daily paper  (Jean-François Guybert, France)

2007, June 28 - Exhibition Tree of Photosynthesis at the Mining Museum, L'OBSERVATEUR DU DOUAISIS (Stéphanie Rifflart, Fance)

2006 Summer, - "Water - Art and Water", area magazine No.12 (Berthe Génévrier, France)
2006, June - "Land Art" FRENCH NEWS No. 205  (Julie Hourim France)
2006, May - "Land Art - Les Environnementales, version 2006 - Coup de coeur", TELERAMA No.2941, Télérama  Sortir  (B.P.)
2005, April 22 - Exhibition "Artworks of the Japanese artist, Shigeko Hirakawa at Energy Science Center of Lewarde - Art to Marry Tradition to Cotemporaneity", LA VOIX DU NORD daily paper (Jean-François Guybert)
2003, April 28 - Montpellier Culture, L'HERAULT DU JOUR daily paper (Catherine Vingtrinier)
2003, May 8, 9, 12  - "Dans les allées d'O, sur les chemins de l'imaginaire" Montpellier Culture,
L'HERAULT DU JOUR daily paper (Catherine Vingtrinier)
2003, May 10  - "Rondes d'enfants d'O" Montpellier Spectacles, MIDI LIBRE daily paper (Marie-Christine Harant)
2002 December - A letter to Sculptors, MICHITANI Publishing (Tadayasu SAKAI, Japan)
2001 December - "Shigeko HIRAKAWA's solo show in the Maison des Arts"
LA FRANCE monthly, Hakusuisha (Shigeko HIRAKAWA, Tokyo, Japan)
2001 December - "Shigeko HIRAKAWA, de 'dé-peindre à colorer l'eau (from anti-painting to colouring water)"
CITY BULLETIN (Shigeko HIRAKAWA, Choisy-le-Roi, Fr.)
2001 October - "Les Essentiels - Esprits d'Eau (The Essentials - Water Spirits)"
LA VIE monthly (Olivier DELAVALLADE, Fr.)
2001 September - "Culture / Histoire d'Eau - expo Shigeko HIRAKAWA (Culture, Water story - Solo Show of Shigeko HIRAKAWA) "
CITY BULLETIN (Renée LESTOQUOY, Malakoff, Fr.)
2001 September - "Alchimie de l'eau (Water Alchemy)"
CITY BULLETIN (Carole TESTA, Choisy-le-Roi, Fr.)
2001 July - "Les artistes japonais en France à partie 1945 (Japanes artists in France after 1945) "
Doctoral thesis (Valérie DOUNIAUX, Fr.)
2001 July - "Festival de l'eau (Festival of Water)"
LA FRANCE monthly, Hakusuisha (Shigeko HIRAKAWA, Tokyo, Japon)
1998 May - "World News, Shigeko Hirakawa's show" NIKKEI ART (Yoshio YOSHIMURA, Japan)
1998 January, February, March - "Shigeko Hirakawa's Solo Show" Choisy Informations
CITY BULLETIN (Choisy-le-Roi, Fr.)
1997 September - "World News, Mont-de-Marsan Sculptures"
NIKKEI ART monthly art magazine (Yoshio YOSHIMURA, Japan)
1995 July - "Ausstellungen Galerien - Shigeko Hirakawa"
BADISCHE ZEITUNG daily paper no.149 Kur 01 (Freiburg, Germany)
1993 - "New Age, New Power in France"
ART VISION (Sho FUKUMOTO, Japan)
1993 - "Art Work that Charms You..., Shigeko HIRAKAWA"
AN AN weekly (Yumi IDA, Japan)
1992 November - "Cloth and Wood, HIRAKAWA "
LA LIBRE BELGIQUE daily paper, Culture no.156 (Roger-Pierre Turine, Brussels, Belgium)
1992 October - "Art Expo", THE NEW ART GUIDE (Belgium)
1992 May - "Six Sculptors in the City, Homage to Henry Gaudier-Brzeska"
LA REPUBLIQUE DU CENTRE daily paper (Fr.)
1991 July - "3 Japanese Artists in the Contemporary Art Center of Rouen"
PARIS-NORMANDIE daily paper (Fr.)
1991 - Invitation to Japanese Culture, LA DECOUVERTE Publishing (Jean-François SABOURET, Fr.)
1991 September - "Shigeko HIRAKAWA, Gallery Jacques Losserand; Annecy"
ART PRESS no.161 (Stani CHAINE, Fr.)
1991 June - "Shigeko HIRAKAWA, Gallery Jacques Losserand"
LYON POCHE (Stani CHAINE, Annecy, Fr.)
1991 April - "Exhibitions in Paris, Shigeko HIRAKAWA "
BIJUTSU NO MADO, Mali-Antoin FUNAKOSHI, Japan)
1990 June - "Shigeko HIRAKAWA, Gallery Athisma"
LE TOUT LYON (René DEROUDILLE, Fr.)
1990 March - "Galerie Streifzug", AZ NURNBERG (Germany)
1990 - "Art & Culture, the verb 'create' is conjugated in the feminine singular "
LA VOIX DU NORD daily paper (Jean-Pierre HUART, Fr.)
1989 - "Shigeko HIRAKAWA "
FIGARO JAPON (Makoto MURATA, Japan)
1989 - "News from abroad "
BT Bijutsu-Techo monthly (Aomi OKABE, Japan)
1989 August - "3 Japanese Artists"
MITTILUNGEN DES INSTITUTS FUR MODERNE KUNST, NURNBERG (Germany)
1989 February - "People, Yesterday and Today, the Adam Prize: Shigeko HIRAKAWA"
ASAHI SHINBUN daily paper (Tei SHIMIZU, Japan)
1988 February - "Shigeko HIRAKAWA / Gallery Athisma "
LYON POCHE (Stani CHAINE, Lyon, Fr.)
1988 February - "Shigeko HIRAKAWA / Metamorphosis"
LE TOUT LYON (René DEROUDILLE, Lyon, Fr.)
1987 June - "Lyon - Japan"
LE TOUT LYON (René DEROUDILLE, Lyon, Fr.)
1985 - "The 17th International Painting Festival in Cagnes-sur-mer"
NICE MATIN daily paper (Fr.)

Exhibitions & Articles in Virtual Galleries (selection)

2008, June 9 - "Wattwiller : Le public s’est laissé troubler par l’art contemporain", lalsace.fr

2008, June - "eautrouble08", fetedeleauwattwiller.org 

2008, April -  "Shigeko Hirakawa :l'art environnemental", thedifferentmagazine.com,Kultura (Marion Richter)

2008 - "Shigeko Hirakawa", artcatalyse.eu

2007 -ENCYCLOPEDIE AUDIOVISUELLE DE L'ART CONTEMPORAIN - Shigeko Hirakawa, imagoart.club.fr/hirakawa.htm (Claude Guibert)

2007, October - "Tree of Photosynthesis, Jamaica Flus", queens.about.com (John Roleke, New York, U.S.A.)

2007, summer - "Tree of Photosynthesis in Lewarde", Paris-Art.com

2007, July 19 -"Water Crater", Shigeko Hirakawa, Fontenay-le-Comte, France, art-nature-project21.org (Thierry  Vendé)

2007 - Parcours_contemporain, ville-fontenaylecomte.fr

2007 - maisondesarts.malakoff.fr/archives/2001/shigeko-hirakawa

2006, October -  "Photo Gallery - Tree of Photosynthesis", argenteuil.fr

2006, October 20 - Shigeko Hirakawa : Arbre à Photosynthèse, exposition à Argenteuil, art-nature-project21.org (Thierry Vendé)

2006 - "Poetical Spaces" culture.prov-liege.be, pdf

2006 - Biannual of Contemporary Art at Tecomah, cnap.culture.gouv.fr

2005 - "Air, Lung" Shigeko Hirakawa at Mining Museum in Lewarde, art-nature-project21.org (Thierry Vendé)

2005 - Shigeko Hirakawa's Art, art-nature-project21.org (Marika Prevosto)

2005, February - "Inaugural Exhibition, Sky-Water/ Shigeko Hirakawa" Paris-Art.com (Marika Prévosto)

2004 - Shigeko Hirakawa in residency in New York", "Mellé", art-nature-project21.org (Marika Prévosto

2000 - japoncreation.com (Valerie Douniaux)

1999 - site-en-bois.net/fr/dec/art/hirakawa.phtm

1999 April - "Artist of the month". Artnet Gallery (Sweden)

Collections

Laon (Fr) -  Arthothèque Arène Collection

Paris (Fr) - Cochin Hospital, private collections
Lyon (Fr) - Centre d'Art Actuel, Gallery Athisma, private collections
Annecy (Fr) - Gallery Jacques Losserand, private collections
Tokyo (Japan) - University of Tokyo, Shiseido Co., Gallery Moris, Gallery Lunami, private collections
Chiba (Japon) - Josai International University, private collections
Osaka (Japan) - Agok Co., Agok Factory (Fukui), etc.

Miscellaneous

< Video >

2011 "Phytoplankton" documentary video, 11 mn. Shigeko Hirakawa

2010  "Human Rainbow" documentary video, Shigeko Hirakawa

2010  "Appel d'air/ Intake of Air" documentary video, 16 mn. Shigeko Hirakawa

2009　"Tree of Photosynthesis Tokyo 2009, documentary video" 12 mns. Shigeko Hirakawa, 

The National Art Center, Tokyo (Tokyo, Japon)
2007 Audiovisuel Encyclopedia of Contemporary Art publishing -Shigeko Hirakawa, DVD: 10 mns　IMAGO ART　（France）
2006-7　Environmental Art - documentary video "Gods' Slide", "Tree of Photosynthesis", "Connected Air &  Domesticated Water" documentary video : 25 mns Shigeko Hirakawa

2004 Documentary video "Solo Show of Shigeko Hirakawa - water followed" Shigeko Hirakawa

< Other >

2004,2003,2002, 2001, 2000,1999 - Writes essays and articles for the Japanese monthly magazine LA FRANCE , Hkusui-sha publishing (Tokyo, Japan)