伊藤知宏（Chihiro ITO）は日本の画家、マルチ・メディア・アーティスト、東京出身。
武蔵野美術大学で絵画を学び、また、スクール・オブ・ビジュアルアーツで文筆コースを受講。彼はポルトガル、キプロス、セルビア、リトアニアの欧州文化首都のイベントに招待されたアーティストです。
2018年、日本政府から助成金を受けて米国に渡り、作品制作のかたわら、日本人も多く関わったNYの前衛運動、フルクサスに関連する生存するアーティストを記録し始めました。その中で彼はニューヨーク（以下NY）を訪れた際にアーティストのジョナス・メカスに出会いました。
これらの経験の後、彼は実験的な映画と詩を制作し始めました。
彼はホルベイン・スカラシップ、NY芸術財団助成、ロバート・ラウシェンバーグ財団助成、モニラ財団（、ジョナス・メカス・スタジオ,
ブロンクス・アート・スペースなどを受賞。ポエトリープロジェクトやThe Elizabeth Foundation for the Artsなどのからもスカラーシップを受賞しました。また、NYのアーティスト向けの初の実験的なアーティスト向けベーシックインカム・プロジェクト、クリエイティブ・リビルド・NYも受賞。彼の活動はMoMA PS1、ガバナーズアイランド、パイオニアワークス、クイーンズ美術館、ミズマ＆キプスギャラリー、Christie’s NY Galleryなどで行われています。
彼の芸術作品では、日常の物や経験を地政学的な境界を越えて人々と結びつける機会を詩を通して探しています。NY在住。

Education
Musashino Art University, Bachelor, Year of matriculation: 2000
School of Visual Arts, Continuing ED (Creative Writing for Visual Artists), Year of matriculation: 2021

Awards / Grants
2023  Jonas Mekas Fellow Residency by Monira Foundation and Jonas Mekas Studio (NJ, USA)
EU Japan Fest Grant for art project (Japan) 2012, 2013 also
Monira Performance Residency at Mana Contemporary by Monira Foundation – 2022 also (NJ, USA)
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Robert Blackburn Printing Workshop program Blackburn Scholarship Fund (NY, USA)
2022 Synethericzero award - Bronx Art Space  (NY, USA)
Creative Rebuild New York – Tide Foundation (NY, USA)
Scholarship award grant – The Poetry Project  (NY, USA) 
Bronx Art Space award residency in Governor’s Island  (NY, USA)
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Robert Blackburn Printing Workshop program / IFPDA
Blackburn Scholarship Fund - The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NY, USA)
2021 City Artist Corp Grant by New York Foundation for the Arts (USA)
Robert Rauschenberg Emergency Grant Award by Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / NYFA (USA)
2020 Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japanese Government grant (Japan)
Fellowship for Online project EU Japan Fest (Japan) 
2019 The Master Art Prize Winner (Paris, France)
Metropolitan Art Gallery Association - La Mama Galerie(NY, USA)
2018 Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan travel fellow for new artist - winner (Japan)
Program of Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists / Creative Arts Fellowship (USA/Japan)
Summer Studio Scholarship Program - Snug Harbor Cultural Art Center / Art Lab Inc. (NY, USA)
Sunspot Literary Journal Contest for Authors and Artists 2 works（USA）
2017  32th Holbein Scholarship  winner (Japan)
2015  Bio Art Seoul 2015 - National Gwacheon National Science Museum (Rep. Korea)
2006,8  Vermont Studio Center – Asian Annual Award - Freeman Fellowship (VA, USA)
2005  Gunma Youth Biennale ’05 (2 Works) Gunma Museum of Modern Art (Japan)

Film Festivals Selection
2023  COLORS - Pune Film Festival (India)
2022 NEW HEAVEN – Diary Film NYC (NY, USA)
 COLORS - Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film & Video (Mexico)
2021 NEW FLAG for NEW PEOPLE - Prague Biennale (Supported by the creative European program of the European Union) (Czech)
NEW FLAG for NEW PEOPLE - International Multimedia Art Festival (Supported by Republic of
Serbia Ministry of Culture and Information) (Serbia).
2020  Last interview film of Jonas Mekas - Fisura International Festival of Experimental Film (Mexico)
         COLORS - Other Movie Lugano Film Festival / LUX art house(Swiss)
Save the Last Dance for Me Semi Finalist - Other Movie Lugano Film Festival / LUX art house(Swiss)
2019 Last interview film of Jonas Mekas - Short Film Day | Kortfilmsdagen på Moderna Museet Malmö (Sweden)
Last interview film of Jonas Mekas - Special Mention - London X4 Seasonal Short Movie Festival (UK)
Fluxus in Contemporary America  Best Documentary - Eurasia International Monthly Film Festival (Russia)
Save the Last Dance for Me - Indie Short Fest(LA, USA)

Invited Solo Exhibition
2023  June 20-July 21   NEW FLAG for NEW PEOPLE – Geidai Shokudo at Tokyo Art University (Tokyo, Japan)
2020  Oct 10- Nov15    solo show - Asagaya Art Streets Gallery (Japan - from 2014 every year)
2019  March 3-16 Tomatinyo - CAAA Gallery  (Portugal - from 2012 every year)
2017  Nov 17   Closer 2.0 -  Wall of Buffer Zone, (Cyprus)
2016  June 15-22 Noise of Society - SPC Gallery (Japan)
2014  May 9-20 solo show - O3one Gallery -  NPO Japan Yugo Art Project invited (Serbia)
2013  March 3-17 solo show - CAAA Gallery - CEO of European Capital of Culture 2012 Invited (Portugal)

Invited Group Exhibition/Events
2023   Oct 13- Jan 24 Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus - Japan Society NY(NY, USA)
Aug 3-16 Inside Job – Christie’s NY (NY, USA)
Feb 9-March 15 Sojourner – Sojourner gallery (NY, USA)
2022   Dec 22-Feb 4 up close and far away…(4 persons show with Jonas Mekas) – M.K. Čiurlionis Art Museum (Lithuania)
Sep 10-Oct 15 Nafas – The Invisible dog art center / The Armory Show 2022 VIP event (NY, USA)
July 13-Sep 11 up close and far away…(4persons show with Jonas Mekas)-Jonas Meka Visual Arts Center (Lithuania)
July 2-24 New Topia – Mizuma & Kips Gallery (NY, USA) Self curated
2021  April 29 Millennium Film Screening - Millennium Film work shop (NY, USA)
March 27-April 29 I depicted what is there! – Christine Frechard gallery (PT, USA) 
2019 April 19  Present for Jonas - Microscope gallery (NY, USA)
2017 Nov 7 Performance at Bedesten in Nicosia Cyprus from Home for Cooperation as collaboration Artist of Buffer Fringe Festival 4 with Nihat Agdac (Cyprus)

Residency
2023 Nov 3-12 Sokolski Dom (Serbia) supported by EU Japan Fest and Holbein Painting Materials Co.
Oct 16-April 15   Jonas Mekas Research and Production Residency by Monira Foundation (NJ, USA)
June 26-July 9   Monira Performance Residency at Mana Contemporary by Monira Foundation (NJ, USA)
2022 Oct 14-29 NGO   ART BOX invited A.I.R. in European Capital of Culture supported by EU Japan Fest (Serbia) 
Aug 30-Nov 3   Bronx Art Space residency in Governor’s Island (NY, USA)
2018-19  Sep 1-Aug 31  New York City Artist in Residency supported by Japanese government cultural section (Japan)
2013 Nov 1-Dec 31  CAAA supported by EU Japan Fest (Portugal)
2012  Oct 1-Nov 29   European Capital of Culture / Guimaraese 2012 (Portugal)
2012  May 5-19 NPO Japan Yugo Art Project / O3one Gallery (Serbia)
2006, 2008  Aug 31-Sep 30   Vermont Studio Center supported by Freeman foundation (VT, USA)

Art Fair
2024 May 27- June 9 Holbein Art Fair (Japan)  
2024 April 25- 28 Printed Matter New York Art Book Fair (NY, USA)
2022 Sep 22-Oct 15 Armory Show 2022 (NY, USA)
2021 Aug 31-Sep 7 Holbein Art Fair 2021 (Japan)  
2008 June 10-12 Affordable Art Fair (NY, USA)

Invited Performance
2023 Nov 9          NEW FLAG for NEW PEOPLE – Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center (Lithuania)
July 9 NEW FLAG for NEW PEOPLE – Zamami Beach at Okinawa (Japan)
May 22 NEW FLAG for NEW PEOPLE – The Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery(NY, USA)
2022  Oct 16 NEW FLAG for NEW PEOPLE – Novi sad 2022 European Capital of Culture (Serbia)
July 4 NEW POETRY for NEW PEOPLE – Monira Foundation, Foundation space (NJ, USA)
April 20 Poetry Performance – 20 l 20 Gallery / Elizabeth Foundation for Art (NY, USA)
April 16 Voice performance w Weronika Trojanska, Jeffrey Parkins - Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery(NY, USA)
April 3 Poetry Reading+Video, Sound collaborated w Jean Carla Rodea,Vered Engelhard-Transpeco(NY, USA) 
July 9 Poetry Reading – Anthology Film Archives (NY, USA)
2021 Oct 16 Poetry Reading+Video, Sound collaborated w Lee Tusman-Flux Factory in Governors Island (NY,USA)
June 11 Poetry Reading – MoMA PS 1 (NY, USA)  
2020 July 22       Quarantine Concerts, Mottel Media Broadcast / Art Jones, Chihiro Ito, Muyassar Kurdi, Luke Stewart 
June 20 Zooma on La Mama online - School of hard knocks invited (NY, USA)
April 19 Free Verse  - Queens Museum invited (NY, USA)
2019 May 8 Paint for the silence by Chihiro ITO - Synesthesia (NY, USA)
2018 Dec 28 Matt Mottel + Chihiro ITO + Steve Dalachinsky - Muchmore’s  (NY, USA)
2017 Nov 17 Buffer Fringe Festival [Europian Capital of Culture] - Home for Cooperation invited (Cyprus) 
2012 May 5 I depicted what is there by Chihiro ITO / CAAA (Portugal)

Media Publications
Like Water in the River,  NYC-based Multimedia Artist Chihiro ITO  Li tang magazine (USA) - Oct, 2022
On the New York City! - The Asahi Shimbun(Japan) – Sep - July, Jan 2021, June 2020, Nov, Sep, July, May, April, Jan 2019 Nov 2018
The New York times Style magazine Japan -  March 2019
Syukan NY Seikatsu - Oct, June 2020, April, March, Jan 2019
Expressing the Catabolism of Daily Life Contemporary Artist Chihiro Ito - The Japan Voice (USA) - April 2019 
Father of Experimental Film, Jonas Mekas Die - Syukan New York Seikatsu (USA) - Jan 2019
 News Flash - Parathyro.com - Nov 2017,   Kanal Sim  (Cyprus) - Oct 2017,  Pic News (Cyprus) - Nov 2017

Workshop 
2023 Oct Design own flag at Governors Island Farm(NY,USA) supported by Holbein Paint Material co. Grow NYC
2022 Oct  Design own flag at Novisad (Serbia/ European Capital of Culture)

Curation
2022 Dec 11 NEW POETRY for NEW PEOPLE – Monira Foundation (NJ, USA)
July 2-24  New Topia – Mizuma & Kips Gallery (NY, USA)
2021 Sep 17-19 Online collaboration event NO WORLD project space (NY, USA)
                                              
Archived
UCLA Music Library / University of California, Los Angeles (CA, USA)
Anthology Film Archives (NY, USA)
Paadmaan project  (Iran) etc

Founded
     2020  NO WORLD project space – NYC/USA (Experimental project space. Founded with NYC artist Mica Scalin)
     2012  Panphagia – Japan (Art evet at a farm)