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Shigeo TOYA Works and Info

Woods
2023, Bronze, 220x31x31cm, ed.5 [17098]
"Toya Shigeo Sculpture" Installation view
2023, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
"Toya Shigeo Sculpture" Installation view
2023, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
"Toya Shigeo Sculpture" Installation view
2023, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
"Toya Shigeo Sculpture" Installation view
2022, Nagano Prefectural Art Museum
"Toya Shigeo Sculpture" Installation view
2022, Nagano Prefectural Art Museum
"Toya Shigeo Sculpture" Installation view
2022, Nagano Prefectural Art Museum
Body of the Gaze−Accumulation
2021, wood, wood ash, acrylic, 142x171x201cm [15955]
Body of the Gaze−Linkage
2020, wood, wood ash, acrylic, 490x100x52cm [15954]
Body of the Gaze - Scatter
2019, wood, wood ash, acrylic, size variable [14444]
Body of the Gaze
2019, wood, wood ash, acrylic, variable size, 9 pcs [14438]
Cave V
2011, wood, wood ashes, acrylic, 220x220x220cm [09272]
Cave V
2011, wood, wood ashes, acrylic, 220x220x220cm [09272]
Cave III
2010, wood, wood ashes, 199x131x70cm, 199x131x59cm, 199x131x68cm, 199x131x68cm (a set of 4) [08977]
Cave III
2010, wood, wood ashes, 199x131x70cm, 199x131x59cm, 199x131x68cm, 199x131x68cm (a set of 4) [08977]
God of Thunder - 09
2009, wood, wood ashes, acrylic, 932x170x155cm [08725] photo by Tadasu Yamamoto
Woods IX
2008, wood, wood ash, acrylic, 220x30x30cm each (a set of 30) [08000] photo by Tadasu Yamamoto
Woods IX
2008, wood, wood ash, acrylic, 220x30x30cm each (a set of 30) [08000] photo by Tadasu Yamamoto
Woods IX
2008, wood, wood ash, acrylic, 220x30x30cm each (a set of 30) [08000] photo by Tadasu Yamamoto
Woods IX
2008, wood, wood ash, acrylic, 220x30x30cm each (a set of 30) [08000] photo by Tadasu Yamamoto
Double Reflected Root I
2005, wood, wood ash, acrylic, 68x340x13cm [06378] photo by Shigeo Muto
Water Root II, Suwa
2005, wood, wood ash, acrylic, 398x139x13cm [06604] photo by Tadasu Yamamoto
Projection Body
2004, wood, wood ashes, acrylic, 197x310x67cm [05229]
From Borders VI
1998, wood, ashes of tree, plaster, acrylic, 143x396x72cm [03337]
From Borders III
1995-96, wood, ash, acrylic, glass, 220x450x225cm [02093] photo by Shigeo Muto
Interface III
1993, wood, wood ash, acrylic, 95x95x95cm each (9 pcs) [01301] photo by Hiromu Narita
Interface I
1992, wood, wood ash, plaster, iron box, acrylic, 75x372x372cm [01276] photo by Sakae Oguma
Underground Room
1992, wood, ash, steel, glass, wax, lens, mixed media, 220x560x360cm [01274] photo by Sakae Oguma
Underground Room
1992, wood, ash, steel, glass, wax, lens, mixed media, 220x560x360cm [01274] photo by Sakae Oguma
Falling
1992, wood, wood ash, acrylic, wire, 17x60cm [01282] photo by Tadasu Yamamoto
Sprit Regions
1990, wood, wood ash, acrylic, glass and iron, 32x496x496cm (8x8 units) [01303] photo by Hiromu Narita
Twenty-eight Deaths
1989, woods, ash, acrylic, 248x434x62cm [01295]
Twenty-eight Deaths
1989, woods, ash, acrylic, 248x434x62cm [01295]
Thirteen Masses Ⅰ
1989, wood, acrylic photo by Patrick Altman
Wood
1987, wood, acrylic, 220x30x30cm [12690] photo by Hiromu Narita
Trunk
1984, wood, ironframe, acrylic, 120x32x30cm [14341]
[From ‘Carving’] From the Walls
1981, plaster, ironframe, variable size “The 2nd Hara Annual” Hara Museum, Tokyo 1981 [15803] photo by Tadasu Yamamoto
Bamboo Grove Ⅱ
1975, vinyl string, bamboo grove, variable size
POMPEII・・79 〈Part 1〉
1974/1987, concrete, 15x60x60cm, 45x45x170cm (4pcs) [15992] photo by Tadasu Yamamoto
overview
Born in Nagano, Japan, in 1947. Currently lives and works in Saitama. Toya started his artistic career with his attempt to reconstruct sculpture as a medium, which had been deconstructed by the preceding art movements such as postminimalism and mono-ha. Since the 1970s, the artist has diligently pursued the principles and structures of sculpture, which resonate with the epistemological foundations of our very existence, underscoring their essence and possibility through his artmaking practice. By manipulating various art histories of all times and places, encompassing the period of cave paintings and Greco-Roman sculptures to contemporary art, with his bona fide sculptural philosophy, Toya has been recognized as one of the leading sculptors in Japan, Asia and the Pacific at large. The artist received the Art Encouragement Prize of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Japan in 2004 and his Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon in 2009. He is also a Professor Emeritus at Musashino Art University.
Selected exhibitions: Toya Shigeo Sculpture, Nagano Prefectural Art Museum, Nagano, 2022-2023, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, 2023; Body of the Gaze: from Scatter to Linkage, from Linkage to Accumulation, ShugoArts, Tokyo, 2022; Shigeo Toya Forest - Lake: Regeneration and Memory, Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba, 2021; Body of the Gaze, ShugoArts, Tokyo, 2019; Shigeo Toya−Sculpture to Emerge, Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo, 2017; Memories in the cave, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, 2011-12; Shigeo Toya : Folds, Gazes and Anima of the Woods, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, 2003; The 3rd Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, 2000; Forest of Visions, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, 1995; Yama - Mori ‒ Mura, Kuma Museum of Art, Ehime, 1994; The First Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1993; The 43rd Venice Biennale, Japanese Pavilion, Venice, 1988; Selected publications: Shigeo Toya−Sculpture and Words (Choukoku-To-Kotoba)1974-2013, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, 2014; Shigeo Toya−Sculpture to Emerge, Musashino Art University Museum & Library, 2017
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Shigeo TOYA

Announcement for the publication “Toya Shigeo: Sculpture”

Toya's new book "Toya Shigeo: Sculpture" has been published by T&M Projects. This book covers important works from his early years to recent years, in addition to the works from the exhibition "Toya Shigeo Sculpture" at Nagano Prefectural Art Museum and The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama. This is a book in which you can truly know the 'Sculpture' by Shigeo Toya.

Exhibition information
Toya Shigeo Sculpture
Nagano Prefectural Art Museum
4 November 2022 - 29 January 2023
Official website   Installation view

The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
25 February - 14 May 2023
Official website

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“Toya Shigeo Sculpture” The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama

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“Toya Shigeo Sculpture” Nagano Prefectural Art Museum

2022.11.4 Fri - 2023.1.29 Sun
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“Body of the Gaze: from Scatter to Linkage, from Linkage to Accumulation” Installation movie, 2022, ShugoArts

2022.1.8 Sat - 2.12 Sat
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Body of the Gaze: from Scatter to Linkage, from Linkage to Accumulation

2022.1.8 Sat - 2.12 Sat
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Shigeo Toya Forest – Lake: Regeneration and Memory, Ichihara Lakeside Museum

2021.10.16 Sat - 2022.1.16 Sun
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THE POTENTIALITY OF DRAWING, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

2020.6.2 Tue - 6.21 Sun
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“Shigeo TOYA—Sculpture to Emerge” related books

"Shigeo TOYA—Sculpture to Emerge" Catalogue raisonné
Editor: Kitazawa Tomoto
Contributor: Akatsuka, Yuji / Tanaka, Masayuki / Tanaka, Shuji
Publisher: Musashino Art University Museum & Library
Pages: 288p
Size: 22x15cm
Date: 16th October 2017

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"Shigeo TOYA—Sculpture to Emerge" Document
Editor: Kitazawa Tomoto
Contributor: Kitazawa, Tomoto/Suzuki, Katsuo/Tanaka, Masayuki/Tanaka, Shuji/TOYA, Shigeo/Haito, Masahiko/Minemura, Toshiaki
Publisher: Musashino Art University Museum & Library
Pages: 80p
Size: 22x15cm
Date: March 2018
[This Document is sold out.]

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Shigeo TOYA Interview 2016.10.28 >>

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Yukio FUJIMOTO, Shigeo TOYA, MORIMURA Yasumasa

Participate: Starting Points: Japanese Art of the ‘80s
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

2018.7.7 Sat - 10.21 Sun
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Solo Exhibition : Sculpture to Emerge Musashino Art University Museum & Library

2017.10.16 Mon - 11.11 Sat
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Woods X

2016.12.16 Fri - 2017.2.5 Sun

Shigeo Toya  Woods X
December 16 Fri, 2016 − February 5 Sun, 2017
Opening Party: December 16 Fri, 17:00-19:00
Venue: ShugoArts

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Shigeo TOYA

Interview in his Chichibu Studio; 2016.10.28

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