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TSUBAKI Noboru

Born 1953 in Kyoto, Japan. Tsubaki received his MFA from Kyoto City University of Arts. He participated in “Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties” (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, et al., 1989-91) with his large-scale sculpture Fresh gasoline, in Aperto’93 at the 45th Venice Biennale (Italy, 1993), and Yokohama Triennale 2001 (Kanagawa, Japan) with his nitrogen sculpture Insect World: Batta Among his solo exhibitions are “Noboru Tsubaki” (Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, US, 1992), “UN Boy” (Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan, 2003), “Gold Black White” (The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 2009), and “Prehistoric PH” (Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan, 2012). Tsubaki acted as artistic director of the Sakate Port and Hishio no Sato Project for Setouchi Triennale 2013 (Kagawa, Japan), Aomori Triennale 2017, and Artists’ Fair Kyoto (2018).