Born in Yokohama, Japan, is a collage painter working in the tradition of Origami (the art of folding paper). Canvas is the artist’s paper and the gentle manipulation of it’s surface is how he conveys intricate textural landscapes. The multiple layers of colors in his canvases are revealed by sanding canvas surface and its repetition.

Kuroo was a featured artist in Yamagata Rising Artists Exhibition held in 1999, where he was interviewed on Yamagata TV. In 2002, his Yamaguchi Gallery solo exhibit was featured in Kahoku Newspaper.
He has exhibited at the Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo (1999), the Ishibashi Museum of Art Fukuoka (2000), and the Gallery Gobanngai Miyagi (2001). In the United States he has shown at the 10th Annual National Art Exhibition at St. John’s University, New York, New York (2005). And the 14th Annual National Juried Show at the Art Institute and Gallery in Salsbury, Maryland (2005). He has exhibited solo shows “Folded colors” at Bronx Community College in New York (2006), “Origami Reinvented” (2007) and “Hiro returns” at Gloria Kennedy Gallery in New York (2008).

Hiromitsu Kuroo’s works are held in the permanent collections of Miyagi National School of Technology, Tohuku University of Art and Design, and by the city of Yamagata, Japan.
He was an active member of the Artist Student League in New York until 2008. He moved to Spain for 2007 Xaveier Gonzalez and Ethel Edwards Grant at the Artist Student League in 2008. Now, he lives and works in Japan.