Noboru Tsubaki Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1953 -

Noboru Tsubaki Born in 1953, in Kyoto. Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Kyoto City University of the Arts. Professor of Department of Fine and Applied arts and Graduate school at Kyoto University of the Arts. Exhibited a sculpture “Fresh gasoline”at the group exhibition Against nature, 1989. Participated in the Venice Biennale,1993.

Exhibited a giant inflatable grasshopper called "Insect World - grasshopper" at Yokohama Triennale 2001. Held solo exhibitions at Art Tower Mito, 2003, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 2009, Kirishima Open-air Museum, Kagoshima, 2012.

He questions the critical state of society through his artworks with humorous giant toys made of inflatable balloons. Director of “Sakate + Hishio project” in 2013, and “Shodoshima Future Project” in 2016, as a part of the Setouchi Trienniale, Aomori Triennale since 2017, and ARTISTS’ FAIR KYOTO since 2018. At the Department of Fine and Applied Arts of Kyoto University of the Arts, where he currently serves as a professor, he changed degree shows to art fairs, and founded "ARTOTHÈQUE" project to promote domestic art market. He takes the position that art projects are innovative tools to establish sustainable societies.