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Hiroko Okada
Japanese contemporary artist (born 1970) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hiroko Okada (Japanese: 岡田裕子; born 1970) also known as Okada Hiroko, is a Japanese contemporary artist,[1] known for her provocative work that challenges societal standards around the construct of family, love, childbirth, and child-rearing.[2] She works within the mediums of video art, photography, painting, installation, and performance.
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Biography
Hiroko Okada was born in 1970 in Tokyo, Japan.[1] She attended Tama Art University, where she graduated in with a BA degree in painting (1993).[1]
She is married to artist Makoto Aida.[3] Together they have son Torajiro Aida (born in 2001), who is a blockchain software engineer.[3] The family formed an art performance group called "Aidake", in which they mocked the traditional family roles of children in a 2015 performance "Recital" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.[4][5][6] Okada and Aida have also worked collaboratively on alternative puppet theater troop called "Gekidan Shiki".[7][8]
"The Delivery by Male Project" (2002) is a video work by Okada about a pregnant man named "S.K." who doesn’t want a family but does want a baby.[9] Okada's artwork was part of the group exhibition "Global Feminisms" (2007) at Brooklyn Museum, curated by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin.[10][11]
Her work is part of public museum collections, including at the Brooklyn Museum.[12]
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