{{short description|American artist|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Notability|Biographies|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox person |name = Jason Hirata |image = |birth_date = {{birth year and age|1986}} |birth_place = Seattle, Washington |known_for = Visual artist }} thumb|An image of the work Why Not Lie? as it appeared at Artists Space, 2020.
'''Jason Hirata''' (born 1986, Seattle, WA)<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=2023-01-20 |title=JASON HIRATA'S “MINUTES” OMINOUSLY SPEAKS THROUGH SHADOWS AT ULRIK GALLERY {{!}} THE UNTITLED MAGAZINE |url=https://untitled-magazine.com/jason-hirata-minutes-at-ulrik-gallery/ |access-date=2023-07-30 |language=en-US}}</ref> is an artist who has shown internationally. Hirata's work can be described as institutional critique.<ref>{{Cite news |title=What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now |language=en |url=https://www.nytimes.com/article/new-york-art-galleries.html |access-date=2023-07-30}}</ref> He lives and works in Princeton, New Jersey.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Farago|first=Jason|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/12/arts/design/artists-space-gallery-new-location.html|title=Artists Space Re-emerges as an Enduring Downtown Alternative|date=2019-12-12|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-04-03|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
== Life and education == Hirata was born in 1986. He received a BFA in photography from the University of Washington in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jamesharrisgallery.com/artists/jason-hirata|website=jamesharrisgallery.com|access-date=2020-04-03|title=James Harris Gallery | Jason Hirata}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://contemporaryartdaily.com/2019/07/jason-hirata-at-svetlana/|title=Jason Hirata at Svetlana (Contemporary Art Daily)|website=contemporaryartdaily.com|access-date=2020-04-03}}</ref> In 2015 he received the Brink Prize for emerging artists working in the Cascadia region.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://henryart.org/exhibitions/the-brink-jason-hirata|title=The Brink: Jason Hirata - Henry Art Gallery|website=henryart.org|access-date=2020-04-03}}</ref>
In addition to making his own artwork, Hirata works as a videographer for other artists.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.art-agenda.com/features/317827/jason-hirata-s-sometimes-you-re-both|title=Jason Hirata's "Sometimes You're Both" - Features - art-agenda|website=www.art-agenda.com|language=en|access-date=2020-04-03}}</ref>
== Exhibitions == Hirata was included in an exhibition at Artists' Space in 2020<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kitnick |first=Alex |title=Alex Kitnick on Jason Hirata |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/202203/alex-kitnick-on-jason-hirata-87916 |access-date=2023-07-30 |website=www.artforum.com |language=en-US}}</ref> where his work was unfavorably reviewed as a "slacker gesture".<ref name=":0" /> He had a solo show at 80WSE gallery in New York City in 2020 that consisted of work by Hannah Black, Adjua Greaves, Trajal Harrell, New Red Order & Jim Fletcherm Carissa Rodriguez and Hito Steyerl that Hirata had worked on and documentation of those artworks. Hirata considers the conveyance of the experience of being in the exhibition the work itself.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/art-as-negotiation-jason-hirata-interviewed/|title=Art As Negotiation: Jason Hirata Interviewed by Joseph Lubitz - BOMB Magazine|website=bombmagazine.org|access-date=2020-04-03}}</ref> Hirata has also shown at Svetlana, New York (2019); Veronica Project Space, Seattle (2019); Kunstverein Nuremberg (2019); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2016); and Muscle Beach, Portland (2016).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://artistsspace.org/exhibitions/danica-barboza-jason-hirata-yuki-kimura-duane-linklater|title=Danica Barboza, Jason Hirata, Yuki Kimura, Duane Linklater|website=artistsspace.org|language=en|access-date=2020-04-04}}</ref> He has also shown at Calicoon Fine Arts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://brooklynrail.org/2019/05/artseen/Overture-at-Callicoon-Fine-Arts-AK-Burns-Jason-Hirata-Zoe-Leonard-KRM-Mooney-Ulrike-Mller-Carissa-Rodriguez-Alan-Ruiz|title=Overture|last=Lubitz|first=Joseph|date=2019-05-01|website=The Brooklyn Rail|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-04}}</ref>
== Collaborators == Hirata frequently works collaboratively with or as a paid assistant to other artists.<ref>{{Cite web |last=America |first=Art in |date=2020-02-21 |title=Jason Hirata on the Art of Assisting Other Artists |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/interviews/jason-hirata-sometimes-youre-both-80wse-nyu-1202678605/ |access-date=2023-07-30 |website=ARTnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref> These artists include Levi Easterbrooks,<ref name=":1" /> Carissa Rodriguez,<ref name=":2" /> Hannah Black,<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://research.steinhardt.nyu.edu/80wse/gallery/2019/10/jason_hirata_sometimes_youre_both|title=Jason Hirata: Sometimes You're Both - 80 Washington Square East Galleries - NYU Steinhardt|website=research.steinhardt.nyu.edu|access-date=2020-04-03|archive-date=2020-04-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200419022842/https://research.steinhardt.nyu.edu/80wse/gallery/2019/10/jason_hirata_sometimes_youre_both|url-status=dead}}</ref> Hito Steyerl, New Red Order.<ref name=":3" />
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