About HRD FINE ART

We are a multi-dimensional and versatile art-consulting office based in Kyoto, Japan, specialized in contemporary art.
Benefiting from our vast experiences and international network, we have been, are, and will be actively involved in a wide range of art-related businesses and activities in and outside Japan, contributing to a more exciting and more prosperous world of art, attractive to a broader audience.

Established: March, 2008
Director: Akikazu HARADA
Website: www.hrdfineart.com
E-mail: info@hrdfineart.com
Our Services
Exhibitions / Art Fairs
We organize art exhibitions at galleries and art spaces in and outside Japan. We help galleries and institutions with program, preparation and management of exhibition. We take part in international art fairs in and outside Japan as well, in order to promote and introduce artists' artworks.
At the window gallery annexed to our office in Kyoto we host a series of art installation projects called "Demado Contemporary Art Project" together with young and promising artists.
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Artist Management / Career Consultation
We represent and support young, emerging artists as well as already established ones, helping promotion in art market and giving career management advices. We provide consultation and tips also to other artists in general and broader terms, in negotiating with galleries and institutions, producing and printing catalogues and websites, promotion of artwork and translation.
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Advisory for Collectors / Private Dealing
We provide expert advices to private collectors and corporate collections; how to build up a quality art collection; how to buy and sell; how to manage, organize and record the collection inventory. Our service covers not only contemporary art but also modern art, Japanese art and antiques, benefiting from our wide range of connections and collaborators.
Interior Art Planning / Art Coordination
We help planning and coordinating artwork programs at restaurants, hotels and other public venues. We provide total professional services from proposal of works to on-site installation, to achieve a best effect by fitting artworks into the whole architecture and interior design program to perfection.
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Catalogue Editing / Design / Web / Translation / Lecture etc.
We produce, edit and design exhibition catalogues and websites for galleries and artists, and provide translation services (Japanese, English and Korean). We also give art-related lectures. We contribute articles and reports to art-related magazines and websites.
Director's Profile

Akikazu Harada was born in 1974 in Tokyo. He received his BA in History of Art at the University of Tokyo.
After working for a publisher/exhibition planning company, Akikazu joined Base Gallery in Tokyo, where he directed many exhibitions and took charge of several international art fairs, while he worked on quite a few cases of public and private art coordination. He was also involved in the phenomenal retrospective of a Japanese artist Shinro Ohtake, titled "Zen-Kei," at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in 2006, and helped Grambooks with publication of the voluminous exhibition catalogue.
Akikazu founded HRD Fine Art in March 2008 in Tokyo, and then started directing exhibitions at Gallery Hangil in Heyri Art Village, in Paju, South Korea.
Came back to Japan in March 2009, this time to Osaka. Based in Kyoto since February 2010, now he is devoted to promoting contemporary art and talented young artsits especially from Japan and Korea.

E-mail Akikazu Harada at: harada@hrdfineart.com
Akikazu Harada's blog (only in Japanese): http://hrdfineart.exblog.jp/
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