Tsuyoshi Hisakado

Born in Kyoto in 1981, Tsuyoshi Hisakado completed a M.F.A. at the Department of Sculpture of the Kyoto City University of Arts in 2007. Hisakado's practice focuses on the seemingly mundane aspects of everyday life. He assembles evidence of history and phenomena that are unique to specific places, creating installations that combine sound, light, and sculpture.


Biography
1981 Born in Kyoto, Japan
2002 Worked as a member of SHINCHIKA, specializing in sound
2005 B.A. Fine Art Sculpture, Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan
2005 Exchange program, Sculpture department, Royal College of Art, London, U.K.
2007 M.A. Fine Art Sculpture, Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan
Lives and works in Kyoto

Solo Exhibitions
2025 “Dear Future Person,”, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China
2024 “It is scary, also infinite, and perhaps cyclical” Ota Fine Arts, Shanghai, China
2023 “Tsuyoshi Hisakado: Dear Future Person” Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
“2022 Mercedes-Benz Art Scope 2022-2024: EQ House x Tsuyoshi Hisakado” Mercedes-Benz EQ House, Tokyo, Japan
“Tsuyoshi Hisakado: Polite Existence” Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE
2022 “River” Ota Fine Arts Tokyo, Japan
“Recent Works” 7CHOME, Japan
2021 “Resume” Ota Fine Arts Singapore, Singapore
2020 “Practice of Spiral” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan
2019 “Fuzz” Ota Fine Arts, Shanghai, China
2018 “Tunnel” Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
“Gale” Ota Fine Arts, Shanghai, China
2015 “Quantize” Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
2014 “Quantize” Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2013 “Shiseido art egg ‘Tsuyoshi Hisakado’” SHISEIDO GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 “Point, Line, Plane”, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
“Petite Grounds”, Ota Fine Arts, Shanghai, China
2023 “Works On Paper”, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
2022 "MAM Collection 016: Meditating on Nature - Hisakado Tsuyoshi, Po Po, and Umetsu Yoichi" Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2022 “Gallery Collection”, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2022 “Hawai‘i Triennal 2022: Pacific Century – E Ho‘omau no Moananuiākea”, Hawaii, US
“Flame” Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
“Sunset / Sunrise” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2021 “Utakata - Die Unbeständigkeit des Moments” Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
“Works on Paper ” Ota Fine Arts, Shanghai, China
2020 “Time” Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
“Mercedes-Benz Art Scope 2018-2020” Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
“Private Viewing Room” Ota Fine Arts, Shanghai
2019 “May You Live In Interesting Times” 58th International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy
“Side Affects” Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
2018 “MAM Project 025: Tsuyoshi Hisakado + Apichatpong Weerasethakul” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
“VOCA Exhibition 25th Anniversary ALL VOCA Award” Daiichi Seimei Gallery, Tokyo
2017 “INTERSTICES: Manifolds of the In-between” De La Salle, Manila, Philippines
“Asia Corridor Contemporary Art Exhibition” Nijo Castle, Kyoto Art Center, Japan
“Time’s journey Through a Room” Setagaya Public Theatre, Tokyo, Japan
“Hinamatsuri” OUR FAVOURITE SHOP, Tokyo, Japan
“Time’s Journey Through a Room” Tram Theatre, Tokyo, Japan
2016-17 “MoCA Pavilion Special Project Tsuyoshi Hisakado” Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
2016 “AICHI TRIENNALE 2016 rainbow caravan” Kaihatsu building, Toyohashi, Japan
“An Imaginative Playground for the Senses” Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
“ART1 2016: Stepping into Fresh Snow” ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka, Japan
“VOCA 2016 The Vision of Contemporary Art” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“primal lines” Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2015 “NISSAN ART AWARD 2015: Exhibition of New Works of Seven Finalists” BankART Studio NYK, Kanagawa, Japan
“Dialogue with Something Invisible” Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka, Japan
“Rokko Meets Art 2015” Mount Rokko National Park, Hyogo, Japan
“still moving” Former Suujin Elementary School, Kyoto, Japan
“Materializing III” Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2014 “’What is Faith Today?’ My god | Your god” SEIAN ART CENTER, Shiga, Japan
“PARC 3: small world” Sapporo Station CHIKAHO, Hokkaido, Japan
2013 “Exchange - Planting the seed” Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan
“what(n)ever” COOP KITAKAGAYA, Osaka, Japan
2012 “Rokko Meets Art 2012” Mount Rokko National Park, Hyogo, Japan
“AME To Quantize” Antenna Media-Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
2006 “via” gallery sowaka, Kyoto, Japan
2004 “Kobe Art Annua ‘TONARINOMADO’” Kobe Art Village Center, Kobe, Japan

Awards
2018 Awarded the “Mercedes-Benz Art Scope 2018-2020”
2016 The Grand Prize of “VOCA 2016 The Vision of Contemporary Art”
2015 The Audience Award at “Nissan Art Award 2015 Exhibition of New Works by Seven Finalists”
The recipient of Kyoto City Special Bounty Program for Art and Culture
2007 Encouragement Prize at Kyoto City University of Arts Works Exhibition
2005 Orizin Prize at Kyoto City University of Arts Works Exhibition

Public Collection
The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Nissan Art Collection
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan