Hiroya Kurata is an artist born in Japan and living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA from Parsons in 2003.
He’s had shows at Ivory & Black SoHo in London, Hollis Taggart, Joshua Liner and Eric Firestone in New York, Ross & Kramer in East Hampton, Part 2 and New Image Art in LA, Guerrero Gallery and FFDG in San Francisco, Gallery Target, Giant Robot and Motus Fort in Japan amongst others.
His work has been covered in Juxtapoz, Graphic, Tokion, Le Journal, Vice, Hypebeast and more.
Brian went to Hiroya’s studio in Red Hook for a talk about his path from Japan to the US to Japan to the US again, seminal punk, the beauty of baseball and more.

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