Tetsuya ishida

Learn about the work and career of artist Tetsuya Ishida. Artworks, biography, exhibitions, news, museum exhibitions, press, and more.

The late artist Tetsuya Ishida is still making an impression with his nightmarish paintings of young men in a state of disfigurement. His work has been described as a surrealistic portrayal of every day Japanese life. Of the 180 works he left behind after his death by a train accident in 2005, nearly all include self-portraits. Ishida’s images most certainly link his own childhood experiences with his observations of society. As a child growing up in Japan, Ishida felt constant pressure to…

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57 Freshly Harvested Savage Memes - Gallery

Beautiful but unsettling surrealist paintings by Japanese artist Tetsuya Ishida confront the horrors of modern life.

self-portrait of another, a retrospective of japanese artist tetsuya ishida, offers a glimpse into the angst-ridden reality of japan during the 1990s.

Tetsuya Ishida

Plotnet Prints on Instagram: “Tetsuya Ishida came of age as a painter during Japan’s “lost decade”—a time of nationwide economic recession that lasted through the 1990s.…”

Designed by architect Tadao Ando, Wrightwood 659 is a new non-commercial exhibition space in Chicago, IL, conceived for the presentation of exhibitions devoted to architecture and socially engaged art.