Okada Hiroko
b. 1970, JapanBorn in Tokyo in 1970. Okada creates highly socially engaged works using diverse expressive methods, drawing inspiration from her personal experiences—love, marriage, childbirth, parenting, and caregiving. Major works include Celebrate for ME (2023–), an XR-based experience of a funeral ceremony; Engaged Body (2019), themed around regenerative medicine; and The Delivery by Male Project (2002/2019), which depicts male pregnancy. In addition to her solo practice, she is involved in numerous art projects. She founded the alternative puppet theater troupe Gekidan☆Shiki in 2010; she is also part of the family art unit AIDA Family (2001–) with AIDA Makoto and their son Torajiro; and launched the W HIROKO PROJECT (2020–), which explores the intersection of art, fashion, and medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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