About

Tsukiyama was born in 1976 in Kobe, in Hyogo prefecture and graduated from the sculpting course at Kyoto University of Arts in 2000. Since then, he has been very actively working as an artist based in Kobe, his hometown and working mainly in Kansai region.

Tsukiyama work with a range of materials, such as metal, wood, paint and artificial cashew lacquer. Some of them were given from a friend, or some are found by chance at a factory…. Most of his medium he discovered through during encounters.

Through repeated experimentation, which Tsukiyama himself calls “playing,” he captures the unique …