Tomoaki Ishihara

Ishihara Tomiaki (石原友明) is a Japanese artist born in Osaka in 1959. He graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts in 1984.[1] Ishihara works in various mediums such as photograph, painting, and sculpture.

Style

He was a part of the Kansai New Wave movement of the 1980s. Some of his works include leather sculptures,[2] three-dimensional works that resemble plush toys, paintings that use braille, self-portraits printed onto boat shaped canvases, blurred photographs and digitized images of his hair on canvas.[3]

Exhibitions

In 1985, he participated in a three-person show with Yasumasa Morimura and Hiroshi Kimura at Galerie 16 in Kyoto.[4]

In 1998 he held a solo exhibition at the Tochigi Prefectural Art Museum, Passage to a Museum, and in 2004 Otani Memorial Art Museum in 2004, Self Portraits – Me and What Lies Behind. [5]

He has also been included in major group shows including Starting points: Japanese Art of the ‘80s at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa;[6] Photographic Distance at Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art;[7] and Japanorama New Vision on Arts in Japan Since 1970 at The Centre Pompidou Metz in France.[8] Vanishing Points, Contemporary Japanese Art organized by The Japan Foundation and exhibited at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi in 2008.[9]

His work, Engagement IV, a huge installation in which he printed his self-portrait on a boat-shaped canvas, was included in the Aperto section of the 1988 Venice Biennale.[3]

References

  1. ^ "石原友明". 京都市立芸術大学 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-04-19.
  2. ^ Koplos, Janet (2013-11-03). "Tomoaki Ishihara". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2023-04-19.
  3. ^ a b Mikami, Yutaka; Nakamura, Urara; Ikegami, Chikako; Ito, Masanobu (2022-09-01). Japan at the Venice Biennale, 1952-2022. Kokusai Kōryū Kikin (1st ed.). Milano: The Japan Foundation. p. 158. ISBN 978-88-9282-331-0. OCLC 1350504353.
  4. ^ Larking, Matthew (2016-05-17). "The many portraits of an artist as a young, and older, man". The Japan Times. Retrieved 2023-04-19.
  5. ^ "Tomoaki Ishihara". ART360°. Retrieved 2023-04-19.
  6. ^ Kiten to shite no 80-nendai = Starting points : Japanese art of the '80s. Kanazawaseiki Bijutsukan, Takamatsu-shi Bijutsukan, Shizuoka-shi Bijutsukan, 金沢世紀美術館, 高松市美術館, 静岡市美術館 (Shohan ed.). Tōkyō. 2018. ISBN 978-4-907490-12-6. OCLC 1096189530.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. ^ "Photographic Distance - Distance between World and Me Measured by Blurred Pictures and Continuous Gradation （Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts）". Tokyo Art Beat. Retrieved 2023-04-19.
  8. ^ "The Japan Foundation - Japanorama—New vision on art since 1970 Exhibition focusing on Japanese visual culture at Centre Pompidou-Metz". www.jpf.go.jp. Retrieved 2023-04-19.
  9. ^ "National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi". www.ngmaindia.gov.in. Retrieved 2023-04-19.