photo by Yuya Shimahara / hair and make by Hisamitsu Takahashi
Toshiaki, TASHIRO
Artist / Art Director
Born in 1980. Graduated from the Art Department of Saga Prefectural Saga Kita High School.
Dropped out of the Film Department of the Faculty of Art at Osaka University of Arts.
In 1996, while still a high school student, he exhibited at the Saga Prefectural Exhibition in the Western Painting category, winning first place (and the Prefectural Governor’s Award and Yamaguchi Ryoichi Award) at the age of 16, the youngest ever.
In 1997, he received the Encouragement Award at the same exhibition.
After dropping out of university and studying performing arts,
he began working full-time as a painter in 2000.
In 2003, he was selected by artists including Katsuhiko Hibino and Takashi Murakami to exhibit at Roppongi Hills Mori Arts Center’s “Artist by Artists.”
In 2010, he was selected for the Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition.
In 2011, he was selected for Tokyo Wonder Wall (and exhibited at Tokyo Wonder Seeds in 2012).
After volunteering in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake and participating in art events for reconstruction,
he started the “5000 Yen Project.”
The project sells original artwork based on the voices of disaster victims for 5,000 yen, and over 700 works were purchased during the project’s run.
In 2014, he was selected to create the artwork for all of the packaging for the new brand “DOUX’ DAMOUR,” which was launched to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Hiyoko Honpo.
In 2015, he released “New Language, New Communication,” which was themed around language and Gestalt collapse.
He published his first collection of works, “New Language, New Communication (Wooly Arts).”
In 2017, he exhibited as the main artist in the first exhibition in Brooklyn, New York, “wooly in blooklyn.”
In the same year, he held a solo exhibition, “THE VERY END OF DAWN,” to commemorate the grand opening of Ropponmatsu Tsutaya Bookstore in Fukuoka.
In 2020, he announced that he had lost a beloved family member to suicide,
and that the various experiences and feelings that accompanied this became the concept behind his creative work.
To create a collection of his works, he raised funds through crowdfunding for the first time, and the project was successful.
The collection, “Flash and the Pain / Toshiaki Tashiro Art Works 1995-2020,” which marks the culmination of his 25-year career as an artist, will be released on January 1, 2021.
In 2022, he released “introspection,” an artwork themed around introspection.
At the same time, he released his first NFT work, “moje,” on the NFT marketplace “Adam byGMO.”
He held a large-scale exhibition at GINZA SIX FOAM CONTEMPORARY in Ginza, Tokyo. He also held traveling exhibitions at cella MASUMI in Nagano, LONGY GALLERY in Tokyo, and Hankyu Department Store in Hakata, attracting approximately 2,000 visitors.
田代敏朗 / タシロトシアキ
美術家・アートディレクター
1980年生まれ。佐賀県立佐賀北高等学校芸術コース美術卒業。私立大阪芸術大学芸術学部映像学科中退。
1996年、高校在学中に出品した佐賀県展洋画の部において史上最年少16歳で主席（県知事賞、山口亮一賞）受賞。
1997年、同展奨励賞受賞。大学中退後、舞台芸術の勉強を経て、2000年より本格的に画家としての活動を開始。
2003年、日比野克彦氏、村上隆氏らの選出により六本木ヒルズ森アーツセンター「Artist by Artists」出展。
2010年、上野の森美術館大賞展入選。
2011年、トーキョーワンダーウォール入選（2012年トーキョーワンダーシード出展）。
東北大震災のボランティア、復興のアートイベント参加を経験した事をきっかけに「5000円プロジェクト」を開始。
被災者の声を元に原画作品を5000円で販売するプロジェクトで、期間中700点以上の作品が購入される。
2014年、ひよこ本舗100周年記念として新しく誕生したブランド「DOUX’ DAMOUR」の全パッケージのアートワークに抜擢。
2015年、言葉とゲシュタルト崩壊をテーマにした「New Language, New Communication」を発表。
初の作品集「New Language, New Communication（Wooly Arts）」を出版。
2017年、初となるニューヨークブルックリンでの展示「wooly in blooklyn」にメインアーティストとして出展。
同年、福岡六本松蔦屋書店のグランドオープン記念として個展「THE VERY END OF DAWN」を開催。
2020年、最愛の家族を自殺により亡くしていること、
それに伴う自身の様々な経験や想いが創作のコンセプトとなっていることを公表。
集大成となる作品集を作るために自身初のクラウドファンディングにて資金を募りプロジェクトが成功。
画家人生25年の集大成となる作品集「痛みと光 / FLASH AND THE PAIN / Toshiaki Tashiro Art Works 1995-2020」を2021年1月1日に発売。
2022 年、「内観」をテーマにしたアートワーク「introspection」を発表。
同時にNFTマーケットプレイス「Adam byGMO」において自身初のNFT作品「moje」を発表。
東京銀座 GINZA SIX FOAM CONTEMPORARY にて大規模な展覧会を開催。長野cella MASUMI,
東京LONGY GALLERY,博多阪急百貨店などで巡回展を開催、約2,000名を動員。