Hiro Sakaguchi: Opening Reception
Benton Spruance Art Center
Arcadia University
450 S. Easton Rd.
Glenside, PA 19038
Recommission of a Battleship, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 40” x 30”. Courtesy of the artist.
Curated by Cynthia H. Veloric, PhD, this show contains drawings and paintings surveying the entirety of this well-regarded Philadelphia artist’s career.
An opening reception will be held on September 4, 2025 from 4:00 – 7:00 PM, where both the artist and the curator will be available to discuss the show and answer questions. On November 4, 2025 a gallery talk featuring Sakaguchi and Veloric will take place beginning at 6:00 PM. Light refreshments will be available and both events are free and open to the public.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Hiro Sakaguchi was born in Nagano, Japan and grew up in Chiba City, near Tokyo. He was born as a twin. He moved to the United States in the 1990’s to study art at the University of the Arts (BFA) and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (MFA). He currently has a studio and resides in Lansdowne, a close suburb of Philadelphia, PA.
Sakaguchi has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, having shown at various venues internationally such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Secession Museum, Austria, the Mori Museum, Tokyo, and the KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland. Sakaguchi has also exhibited at PULSE art fair in Miami and at the Melbourne Art Fair in Australia, both with Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo.
In 2011 Sakaguchi exhibited his first museum solo show, No Particular Place to Go, at the Morris Gallery of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His 2014 / 2015 solo exhibition, Avert, Escape or Cope With, at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art was reviewed in ART NEWS, June 2015. In 2015 Sakaguchi exhibited a two-person show at Nancy Margolis Gallery, NYC, alongside Anne Canfield. In 2019, he participated in the Philadelphia Fine Art Fair through Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia.
Artworks by Hiro Sakaguchi can be found in both public and private collections internationally including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia. He has representation at Seraphin Gallery in Philadelphia, Galerie Heubner & Heubner in Frankfurt, and Nancy Margolis Gallery in New York.
