Noriyasu Fukushima

Noriyasu Fukushima was born in Tottori Prefecture in 1940. He majored in sculpture at Kyoto City University of Art. In 1964, he exhibited his work at “Trends in Contemporary Art: Painting and Sculpture” (The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto). In the same year, he visited the US at the invitation of art collector John Powers, where he engaged in creation of works and research. He returned to Japan the following year and held his first solo exhibition at Gallery 16. Following this, he exhibited his work at the Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition and the Japan International Art Exhibition. He also exhibited at the “Guggenheim International Exhibition 1967: Sculpture from Twenty Nations” and at the Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition at Suma Rikyu Park in 1968, 1970, and 1978. In 1970, he was responsible for modeling the Japan World Exposition’s Thursday Plaza, and in 1977, he submitted his work to “Art Now ’77”. He visited the US again from 1980 to 1981. From the 1980s, his work underwent a shift from the minimal trends he had favored up until then, and he released works which incorporated the question of “drawing”. From 1991 to 1992, he was dispatched to Germany by the Japan Foundation, holding his first solo exhibition in Kassel in 1993. He held solo exhibitions at the Osaka Contemporary Art Center in 1984, Museum of Modern Art, Toyoshina in 1995, The National Museum of Art, Osaka in 2002, and Shizuoka City Museum of Art in 2015.