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Hidemi Takagi: The Barbershops

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Hidemi Takagi, The Barbershops, 2016, 11×14″, Digital C Print

“I Photographed documenting the neighborhood institutions of barbershops that are central to public life in Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights as they are under threat from real estate development and rapid gentrification. I tried to capture the sense of styles and artistry that the barbers and their clients share, celebrating a predominantly male public culture that has been central to the development of a distinctive Brooklyn aesthetic.”

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Hidemi Takagi was born in Kyoto, Japan and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Takagi has exhibited both nationally and internationally (London, Madrid, Tel Aviv, Berlin, and Paris). Her notable selected exhibitions include Brooklyn Museum, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Queens Museum, BRIC Media Art Center, Visual Arts Center of NJ and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. Takagi was awarded: The AIM program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2004), the NYFA IAP Mentoring Program (2008), the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space Artist Studio Residency (2010), the Engaging Artist residency by More Art (2015), BRIC’s New Media Art Fellowship (2016), Utopian Practice Fellowship by Culture Push (2017), En Foco Photography Fellowship (2018), KODA Artist Residency: Identity + Justice (2020); The Brooklyn Arts Fund grants by BAC (2019 & 2021); The Sustainable Arts Fellowship by Gallery Aferro (2022), The Bandung 2022 Residency by MoCADA & The Asian American Arts Alliance (2022): Paradise AIR, Artist in residence: Chiba, Japan (2022) Chiba, Japan, The Puffin Foundation Fellowship (2022), The Rema Hort Mann Foundation Artist Community Engagement Grant (2022), Bridge to Kyoto Artist in residence: Kyoto, Japan (2024) and NYSCA FY2024 grant by the New York State Council on the Arts (2024). Her work has been reviewed in Time Out Tel Aviv, Time Out New York, the New York Times, and the Village Voice. Her Blender project was selected for the Times Square Public Arts Program of the Times Square Alliance 2011.