Born in Yokohama, Japan. Lives and works in Japan.
With her intuitive use of materials, Tsuchiya builds delicate elements and layers that become part of the landscape that make up the entirety of an individual sculptural work. Tsuchiya’s visual language reflects her intense understanding of the characteristics of different materials. In her work she approaches the parameters of their physical limitations to create the sensitive and challenging sculptural works. Tsuchiya precisely transforms ubiquitous objects and detritus materials into curious microcosms. Each fragment of her uninhibited and instinctive assemblages – every material surface, component and form – are in poetic dialogue with one another and the surrounding environment.
Selected solo exhibitions
2023
Stay as a Wave, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
2020
,,, , Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany
2019
30 Ways to Go to the Moon, MOSTYN, Llandudno, Wales, UK
30 Ways to Go to the Moon,Yorkshire Sculpture International, Leeds City Art Gallery, UK
2018
30 Ways to Go to the Moon, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
2017
Cactus Triple-Meter Cave, Soko Komagome, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
Performance:Parking fish project –Vol. Tora-san, Benito Juarez Market, Mexico
2013
Do white walls dream about a paler shade of white, CAPSULE, Tokyo, Japan
Nobuko Tsuchiya x kumagusuku “Ace of heart vol.7”, kumagusuku, Kagawa, Japan
2011
We are living in a time machine, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
2009
Nobuko Tsuchiya, Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris, France
2008
Nobuko Tsuchiya, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
2007
Dialogue I, Galleria Enrico Fornello, Prato, Italy
Once upon a time, in a distant place there was a parking fish project, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
2005
Nobuko Tsuchiya, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
2003
Nobuko Tsuchiya, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
Selected group exhibitions
2022
New Entry. Vienna, Gregor Podnar, Vienna, Austria
MATSUMOTO Architecture + Art Festival, Matsumoto, Japan
Strange Attractor, curated by Margarida Mendes, Pavilhão Branco, Lisbon, Portugal
2020
Nissan Art Award, Yokohama, Japan
2019
De(s) Rives#2Art Takes Over the Market, Galerie Aline Vidal on l’île Saint-Louis, Paris, France
Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Souvenirs de Voyage, Musee de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Singing in the rain, R16 Bank Art, Yokohama, Japan
2018
De(s) Rives, Galerie Aline Vidal on l’île Saint-Louis, Paris, France
L’envol ou le rêve de voler, la maison rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France
2017
Museum of Together, Spiral by AIT, Tokyo, Japan
Spring Fever, Soko Komagome, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
2016
Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude, Busan Biennale, South Korea
Matter Fictions, Museu Colecao Berardo, Portugal
Two Persons Show, Gallery Hiramine, Tokyo, Japan
2015
Co-Workers: Beyond Disaster, Betonsalon, Paris, France
Invisible Energy, St. Paul StGallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2014
Visions of Proximity, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
What’s In and What’s Not, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
Unseen Daily Life, Tokyo wonder site, Tokyo, Japan
2013
Interpenetrate, Goyan Art Studio Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2012
The Cosmos as Metaphor, Hotel Ante Room Kyoto, Taka Ishii Gallery, London, UK
2011
Souvenirs, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London, UK
Quiet Attentions -Departure from WomenArt Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
2010
Shef-fish fuck, Se-project, London, UK
2009
How to change your life in a day, Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris, France
2007
Unmonumental: The Object in the 21stCentury, New Museum, New York, USA
2006
Beauty and Beast, Fieldgate Gallery, London, UK
Dialogue, Galleria Enrico Fornello, Prato, Italy
Sculpture/Object, The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on -Trent , Hanley, UK
Exhibition #1, Dreamworks, Haas and Mayer, Gallery Zurich, Switzerland
2005
Bidibibodibiboo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
This storm is what we call progress, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
The Wonderful fund, Marrakech Museum, Morocco
Spot, Unit Seven, London, UK
2004
Non Toccare La Donna Bianca –Arte Contemporanea fra diversità e liberazione, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
Britannia Works, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre & Renos Xippas Gallery, Athens, Greece
New Blood, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2003
50 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Dream and Confliction, Clandestine, Venice, Italy
2002
Opening exhibition, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK