NYAB Event - Toshiko Tochihara “Recent Works”

Toshiko Tochihara “Recent Works”

NY Coo Gallery

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Tochihara was born in North East Liaoning, China and returned to Japan with her family. She graduated from Osaka Shoin University, where she majored in Japanese Literature and later graduated from Musashino Art University in Tokyo. During her career, she entered many art competitions and received many prizes in Japan, including the 2009 Sekisosha-Sho, an honorable prize which is given to only one woman a year from the governor of Hyogo prefecture. She has exhibited her work at galleries and museums extensively throughout Japan, including Kobe and Tokyo. She has also exhibited her work in New York since 1997 when she received a First Look Award at the SOHO Art Festival. Since 2007, she has participated in art fairs and other shows in France, including the ARTENIM, South France International Art Fair and others, including a solo show in Paris in 2008. One of her works was selected as the image for the official flyer and admission tickets in 2008 for the ARTENIM.

She is also enthusiastic about public projects like “Painting 100 Meter Long” at Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium, Nishinomiya, Japan in 1996 and “Project Rokko” for a painting event organized by Yutaka Sado, Super Kids Project at Rokko Mountain in Hyogo, Japan in 2003. She also worked for “The International Two Dimensional Art Exhibition”, an international artists’ exchange program and exhibition with French artists from The Barbizon at the Asago Art Village Museum in 2008.

Such public events are an important aspect of expressing her art in relationship to society. One primary example is the Pou Art Group over which she presides and which held a huge exhibition of a 480-meter wall painting, showing that Toshiko is a contemporary artist who not only works as an individual artist but also encourages and helps young artists.

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