Toya Shigeo: Sculpture
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
215x297mm, 320pages, Hardcover / Softcover
Japanese / English
Toya Shigeo, Minemura Toshiaki, Tatehata Akira, Sahara Shiori, Matsumoto Tohru, Suzuki Yukino, Shinfuji Atsushi, Tomii Motohiro, Endo Toshikatsu, Katsumata Ryo
Suzuki Satoshi
T&M Projects
Japanese / English
978-4-909442-39-0
*There are two versions: hardcover and softcover, and the contents are the same.
*The hardcover version comes with a sleeve and is available in a limited number of copies. The hardcover version is also available in our gallery.
Related Exhibition / Event
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