hishamakirabharoocha.com
Brooklyn, New York

Hoodie Design: "Now Wave" — Green & Orange

Hisham Akira Bharoocha is a Brooklyn based artist concentrating on creating music, visual art, and photography. Born in Japan, Hisham has exhibited in solo shows around the world and group shows at galleries such as Deitch Projects, John Connelly Presents, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He has been published in numerous publications including Art Forum, V, I-D, Flaunt, Tokion, and Blend.

Presently, Hisham is focused on creating work that shows the absurdity and logic of how the mind functions, what kind of relationships it creates between experiences, and images that we absorb through our senses moment by moment.

Hisham is also one of the New York underground community's creative leaders, continually trying to bring together the visual art, music, and fashion communities for collaboration. He is well known in the underground music scene for being a founding member of the bands Lightning Bolt and Black Dice. After leaving Black Dice, he created Soft Circle, a solo project that allows him a more personal exploration of his own musical interests. Bharoocha has toured with such bands as Boredoms, No Age, and High Places. Bharoocha was the musical director for the now legendary 77 BOADRUM performance, a musical composition composed by Boredoms, which involved 77 drummers playing 77 drum kits in a spiral formation at Empire Fulton Ferry State Park on July 7th, 2007. In addition he was also the musical director for 2008's 88 Boadrum performance which happened on August 8th, 2008 with 88 drummers playing with Boredoms in Los Angeles, as well as 88 drummers playing with Gang Gang Dance in New York City on the same day.

Hisham is currently collaborating with Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, model Erin Wasson, No Age, Opening Ceremony, Maria Cornejo, & United Bamboo on a line of sunglasses called Phosphorescence.

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