Hidenori Ishii is a visual artist who approaches the social and environmental landscape through a fusion of art historical connections, personal narratives, and socio-political subject matter. The work takes the form of paintings, prints, and installations investigating the paradoxical dichotomy of civilization and nature through the interdependence which lies in between. It reveals a tenuous axis on which the two worlds serendipitously coexist, merging past and future onto a single plane.

Hidenori Ishii, born 1978 in Yonezawa, Japan, received his MFA in Fine Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland; and, his BFA in Fine Art at the College of Visual and Performing Arts George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Ishii has mounted solo exhibitions at Townsend, Water Mill, NY; Erin Clulely Gallery, Dallas, TX; and, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD. Ishii has been included in numerous group exhibitions, domestically and internationally, including at venues such as Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU, Wichita Falls, TX; LES Printshop, New York, NY; Park Place Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; ABC No Rio in Exile; Brooklyn, NY; Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas, TX; C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD; Ankara Art in Embassies, Ankara, Turkey; and, Contemporary Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD. Among his awards and distinctions, Ishii is a 2022 recipient of a New Work Grant by the Queens Council on the Arts; previously he was a Keyholder Resident at the Lower East Side Print Shop in New York City, and a recipient of the Henry Walters Travel Fellowship to Iceland. Ishii lives and works in New York, New York.