Hiraki Sawa (born 1977, Ishikawa, Japan) received his BFA from the University of East London and his MFA from the Slade School of Art at University College, London. Sawa’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Dundee Contemporary Arts, the Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Chisenhale Gallery, London, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Saint Louis Art Museum, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Musée des Beaux-Arts;Archéologie et Musée du Temps de Besançon with Le Consortium, Dijon.