HIROYUKI HAMADA

Hamada holds an MFA from the University of Maryland and has taught sculpture at Penland School of Craft as well as serving as a Visiting Artist at the Vermont Studio Center. Over the years, he has attended various residencies including those at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Edward F. Albee Foundation/William Flanagan Memorial Creative Person’s Center, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and MacDowell Colony. In 2020, he was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Mid-Career Residency at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.

Hamada has been the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and twice received New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in sculpture. In 2018, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Hamada’s work has been featured in various publications, including Stokstad and Cothren’s art history textbook Art: A Brief History (Pearson). He lives and works on the East End of Long Island with his family.