Born in Fukushima in 1973.
Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, M.A, Fine Art Painting in 2004.
Held numerous solo exhibitions including "Koibutsu Ukiyo" at Ever Harvest Art Gallery / Taipei in 2009, "What are you fighting against?" at Galerie Yukiko Kawase / Paris, "Toru Otsuki exhibition" at Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store / Tokyo in 2011.
Participated in group exhibitions and art fairs including "New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA)" at The Deauville Beach Resort / Miami in 2010.
Won many Prizes including The Award of the President of Jury at Tokyo Wonder Wall 2003.
Selected as a scholaship student of the 20th Holbein Scholaship.
Works
I spent my youth living with a cat, in the nature of all four seasons.
Even in those days I was interested in creation, and spurred by inspiration from comics, I came to love making art.
In my school days I took almost mortally ill, but survived.
This experience with suffering made me want to make beautiful pictures to make people happy.
My subjects are mostly women, cats, and plants, and the world they weave is a Japanese sense of the seasons, emotion, transitory beauty, and sometimes societal issues.
In college I learned the Western gold tempera technique and was captured by the beauty of gold.
I added a Japanese flavor to this, and I feel the result is an interesting East-West blend.
My wish is that many people will see my own personal aesthetics and experience happiness.
PROFILE
1973 Born in Fukushima
2004 Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, M.A, Fine Art Painting
Solo Exhibition
2004 Tokyo Wonder Wall / Tokyo
2004 Happiness Bird (Tokyo wonder site Hongo)
2004 Solo Exhibition (Gallery Nike / Tokyo)
2007 Solo Exhibition (USUI Department Store / Fukushima)
2008 Solo Exhibition "-MEMORIES-" (OFFICE / Tokyo)
2009 Somehow Shanghai (galeria de muerte / Tokyo)
2009 My Precious Girl (Roppongi Hills Art & Design Store / Tokyo)
2009 Koibutsu Ukiyo (Ever Harvest Art Gallery / Taipei)
2011 What are you fighting against? (Kawase Yukiko Gallery / Paris)
2014 Toru Otsuki Exhibition (Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store / Tokyo)
2017 Art Taipei (Ever Harvest Art Gallery Booth)
2018 Gold Capital Story Toru Otsuki Solo Exhibition (Ever Harvest Art Gallery / Taipei)
2019 Toru Otsuki Exhibition-OMENS OF HAPPINESS- (Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store / Tokyo)
Group Exhibition
2002 escenas (Gallery Mouri / Tokyo)
2003 ONE DAY ONEMAN SHOW (Tokyo University of the Arts)
2003 ART BOX Grand Prize Commemorative Exhibition (ART BOX Gallery / Tokyo)
2003 絵のある部屋 (SPICA MUSEUM / Tokyo)
2003 Camp part 03-SPICafe- (SPICA art / Tokyo)
2004 Tokyo Wonder Wall Artists Exhibition2000-2003 (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo)
2004 TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK (Container Exhibition / Tokyo)
2005 Tokyo Wonder Site No.0 Exhibition（Tokyo wonder site)
2005 Think Ahead the 4th Nakamichi Exhibition (Fuchu Art Museum / Tokyo)
2006 Toru Otsuki and Kazutoshi Matsuda Exhibition (Gallery Nike / Tokyo)
2006 Toru Otsuki and Naoko Fukui Exhibition (SPICA art / Tokyo)
2007 tagboat viewing (tagboat / Tokyo)
2007 Game Girl Toru Otsuki and Naoko Fukui (FARM by hiromi yoshii / Tokyo)
2008 "0×100＝"100 artists （galeria de muerte / Tokyo)
2008 esquire cafe (CAFE SPEIRA / Tokyo)
2008 101TOKYO Contemporary Art Fair 2008 (former Rensei Junior High School / Tokyo)
2008 The 32nd 2008Japan Hobby Show Live Painting (Tokyo Big Sight)
2008 Shanghai Art Fair (ShanghaiMART / Shanghai)
2009 "In Battle There Is No Law" chapter 2 (galeria de muerte / Tokyo)
2009 YOUNG ARTISTS JAPAN (Digital Hollywood University / Tokyo)
2009 YOUNG ARTISTS JAPAN (Tokyo Kotsukaikan)
2009 ULTRA002 (Spiral / Tokyo)
2010 Tokyo Wonder Wall 10 years! (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / Tokyo)
2010 Contemporary Art Biennale of Fukushima (Fukushima Prefectural Culture Center)
2010 NEW ART DEALERS ALLIANCE (NADA) (The Deauville Beach Resort / Miami)
2011 Mancy’s Art Nights（Mancy's Tokyo / Tokyo)
2012 2012Spring三越美術逸品会 (Hotel New Otani / Tokyo)
2012 ART NAGOYA2012 (Westin Nagoya Castle / Aichi)
2012 MITSUKOSHI×Tokyo University of the Arts Summer Art Festival2012 (Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store / Tokyo)
2013 2013 Winter Mitsukoshi Art Special Selection (Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store / Tokyo)
2013 2013 summer Mitsukoshi Art Special Selection (Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store / Tokyo)
2013 ART NAGOYA 2013 (Westin Nagoya Castle / Aichi)
2013 The Brussels Contemporary Drawing Fair（The White Hotel by ibis Styles Louise / Belgium)
2013 Autumn三越美術逸品会 (Hotel New Otani / Tokyo)
2014 2014 Winter Mitsukoshi Art Special Selection (Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store / Tokyo)
2014 ART NAGOYA (Westin Nagoya Castle / Aichi)
Art Fair
2010 Taguchi Art Collection
Award
2003 The Award of the President of Jury at Tokyo Wonder Wall
2005 Accepted at Tokyo Wonder Site No.0 Exhibition
2005 Selected as a scholaship student of the 20th Holbein Scholaship
2017 Won the Honorable Mention Award at Japanese Painting 2016
ONBEAT vol.12 features Toru Otsuki
