Ishii Toru

BiographyIshii Toru was born in 1981 in Shizuoka, Japan, and completed his Ph.D in textile arts in 2014 at Tokyo University of Arts, having specialised in textile arts and thetraditional Japanese crafts techniques of Yuzen dyeing and Ukiyo-e. He belongs to ageneration of Japanese artists whose work process involves giving a modernexpression to centenary craft traditions. Read More

Even tough the artist is not interested in expressing his personal opinions, in his artworks he usually portrays modern society issues including references to current social and economic events. Ishii Toru has exhibited extensively both in solo and group shows national and internationally and his work is represented in the permanent collections ofTokyo University of the Arts Museum, Tokyo; Victoria and Albert Museum, London;Morikami Museum, Miami. Awards and grants include a Doctoral Program FinalExhibition Nomura Art Prize, a Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation Grant andthe Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program Grant and an Ise Cultural Foundation Exhibition, David Solo Award.