Tetsuya Ishida

Japanese Painter

Tetsuya Ishida was born in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan on June 16th, 1973 and is the Japanese Painter. At the age of 31, Tetsuya Ishida biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

Date of Birth
June 16, 1973
Nationality
Japan
Place of Birth
Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Death Date
May 23, 2005 (age 31)
Zodiac Sign
Gemini
Profession
Graphic Designer, Painter
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Education
Musashino Art University
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Tetsuya Ishida Career

Ishida and his friend, film director Isamu Hirabayashi, formed a multimedia company in 1996 to collaborate on film and art fusion projects. Their partnership ended due to the Japanese recession in the mid-to-late 1990s that forced the duo to transition into graphic design. Ishida disliked marketing and subsequently decided to launch a solo artistic career.

Between 1996 and 2005, Ishida's distinctly surrealistic style attracted a sizable following. His participation in various solo and group exhibitions across the country garnered numerous awards, and Ishida became a dominant fixture in Japan's contemporary art scene.

Tokyo's upscale Ginza shopping district is renowned for its promotion of arts consumption for the general public through exhibitions organized inside department stores. Participation in these exclusive shows was considered a significant accomplishment for emerging Japanese artists. Ginza's reputation for elaborate art shows attracted international figures in modern and contemporary art such as Anselm Kiefer whose major 1993 retrospective Melancholia was held at the Seibu Museum (now Sezon Museum of Modern Art) inside the Seibu Department Store. Ishida was featured in over a dozen Ginza exhibitions that expanded his audience by rendering his works more readily accessible to the general public and art critics.

In October 1998, prominent Dutch art historian Maria Kaldenhoven launched the Western art world's first auction of Asian avant-garde art at Christie's London. Her intent was to highlight the latest developments in “groundbreaking” contemporary East Asian art. Although a Chinese art specialist, Kaldenhoven was captivated by the works of Ishida and Takashi Murakami. She regarded their paintings as reflective of Japan's rising influence in the global contemporary art market. Two Ishida canvases were auctioned alongside two Murakami helium paintings. While neither of his paintings sold, Ishida's inclusion in the auction directly contributed to a surge in popularity of his work among Western and Eastern audiences. In 2007, both aforementioned Ishida paintings were posthumously sold at Christie's London for $530,000 and $270,000, respectively.

As his artistic output increased, Ishida's parents eventually realized the magnitude of their son's skill and commitment to painting, and they came to embrace and appreciate his art.

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Tetsuya Ishida Awards
  • 1995: Grand Prize in Graphic Arts at 6th Hitotsubu Exhibition
  • 1995: Mainichi Design Award
  • 1996: Encouragement Prize at Mainichi Design Award
  • 1997: Grand Prize JACA Japan Visual Arts Exhibition
  • 1998: Encouragement Prize at Kirin Contemporary Awards
  • 2001: Encouragement Prize at VOCA Exhibition
  • 2009: Purple Japanese Medal of Honor (Awarded posthumously to Ishida's parents)