Born in 1976 in Ishakawa, Japan, Hino graduated from the Painting master course of Tsukuba University in Japan in 2001. Hino's work is characterized by the vacuous facial expression present on his painting characters, well-noted in Japan and Korea's art world. Hino has been awarded numerous prizes such as the Encouragement Award at "The 53rd Niki Exhibition" (1999, Tokyo); "The 20th Izu Art Festival Painting" (2002, Izu, Japan); and the Grand Prize at "The Vision of Contemporary Art" (2005, Tokyo). His works have participated in solo exhibitions held by Galleria Grafica bis (2003; 2004, Tokyo); Sky-walk Exhibition Space (2004, Tokyo); and group shows in "The 1st Ponchon Asian Art Festival" (2005, Korea); "Heyri Asian Young Artist Project" (2007, Korea); "Chinese and Japanese Contemporary Paintings from Zeit-Foto Collection" (2008, Shanghai).
Artworks
HINO Korehiko 日野之彥