{{Short description|Japanese contemporary multi-disciplinary artist}}{{Infobox artist | name = Hiro Ando | image = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1973}} | birth_place = Island of Shikoku Japan | field = Painting, sculpture, neo-pop | website = {{URL|www.hiroando.com/}} }} '''Hiro Ando''' (born in 1973) is a Japanese contemporary multi-disciplinary artist who fuses ancient and modern Japanese traditional themes into his contemporary plastic pop-art sculptures.
== Early life and career == Hiro Ando was born on island of Shikoku, Japan and began his prolific career in 1995 in Tokyo. His work is inspired by Japanese pop culture, manga, and the streets of Tokyo.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-04-26|title=Hiro Ando fuses ancient and modern Japanese traditions in his neo-pop art|url=https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/hiro-ando/|access-date=2020-07-20|website=Creative Boom|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Collecting Hiro Ando, Icon of the Nippon Neo Pop Culture {{!}} Widewalls|url=https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/buy-hiro-ando-artwork|access-date=2020-08-17|website=www.widewalls.ch|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Bagatelle Joins Hands With Dubai's Opera Gallery To Marry Art And Fine Dining|url=https://www.harpersbazaararabia.com/culture/art/bagatelle-joins-hands-with-dubais-opera-gallery|access-date=2020-08-17|website=Harper's BAZAAR Arabia|date=23 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
His work is presented by the Paris-based Galerie Jacob Paulett gallery.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hiro Ando paintings|url=https://galeriejacobpaulett.com/portfolio-posts/hiro-ando-paintings/|access-date=2020-08-17|website=Galerie Jacob Paulett|language=en-US}}</ref> Ando’s work shares the neo-pop spirit of Jeff Koons’s balloon dog figurines and Takashi Murakami’s “otaku” sculptures.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hiro Ando, Japan's Neo Pop Art Leader {{!}} Widewalls|url=https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/hiro-ando-japan-neo-pop-artist|access-date=2020-08-17|website=www.widewalls.ch|language=en}}</ref>
Ando is also co-founder of the neo-pop multi-artist collective studio of artists in Tokyo, called CrazyNoodles. The Crazy Noodles Studio was created by Saori Nakamishi and Hiro Ando in Tokyo in 2005 to organize and promote the creative activities of young artists of the new Japanese pop wave.
Ando issued his cat series designs In 2006, debuting a concept that would carry through the subsequent ''SumoCat'', ''UrbanCat'', and ''WarriorCat'' sculptural editions.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Curtis|first=Nick|title=Neo-Pop in Porcelain: Hiro Ando's UrbanCat » CoART Magazine|url=https://coartmag.com/news/feature/neo-pop-hiro-ando-urbancat/|access-date=2020-07-21|language=en-US}}</ref>
Ando created an extra white rendition of his UrbanCat creation in porcelain, the roughly 8¼- inch tall form produced in an edition of 20 signed and numbered pieces series by partnering with established producer K.Olin tribu.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Curtis|first=Nick|title=Neo-Pop in Porcelain: Hiro Ando's UrbanCat » CoART Magazine|url=https://coartmag.com/news/feature/neo-pop-hiro-ando-urbancat/|access-date=2020-08-21|language=en-US}}</ref>
== Museum collections == * Israel Museum of Jerusalem, SamuraiCat on the Museum : Cats and Dogs.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hiro Ando - Tel Aviv|url=https://corridorcontemporary.com/collection/hiro-ando/|access-date=2020-08-24|website=corridorcontemporary.com}}</ref>
* Salsali Private Museum, 10th Dubai International Film Festival.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Permanent Collection|url=http://www.salsalipm.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=56:ando-hiro&Itemid=115|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-24|website=www.salsalipm.com}}</ref>
== Exhibitions == '''2018'''
* Ando Sculptures, Galerie Tony Rocfort, la Baule, France * Collective Show, COVA Gallery, Eindhoven, the Netherlands * Colors of Japan, Galerie 193, Paris, France * Context Art Miami, ZK Gallery, San Francisco, USA * CrazyColors CrazyNoodles, Galerie JacobPaulett, Paris France
'''2017'''
* Permanent Ando Show, Artion Gallery, Greece * Ando Sculptures Show, ZK Gallery, San Francisco, USA * Show CrazyNoodles, Galerie Jacob Paulett, Paris France
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