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                             NFT art on sale:    https://opensea.io/XYZM
                           
                            Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/xyzm19662022

                       Exhibition at virtual gallery: XYZM space 1 (oncyber.io)

Born in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture in 1966. I started oil paintings at the age of 15.

After that, I entered Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts and studied Japanese painting.

After graduating, I became a high school art teacher, but I retired in five years and went to London alone to study abroad.

I studied printmaking and photography at the London Institute, Central St. Martins College, Graduate School from 1994 to 1998 and earned a master's degree.

After returning to Japan, I became a teacher of the Japanese painting course at an art university in Aichi prefecture from 2000.

In 2019, I retired from the university because of depression.

After a period of inactivity, I changed my artist's name from my real name to XYZM in 2022 and started NFT art.

I continue to the present.

Solo Exhibition 2015  / D-2 Gallery, Aichi, Japan

Selected Group Shows 

1996       National print exhibition 96, 97, 98 (Mall Gallery, London)

1997       The 8th International Biennial Print & Drawing Exhibit R.O.C. (Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan)

1997       The Ida Branson Memorial Bequest Exhibition (Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, UK)

1997       "fish out of water" Exhibition (Curwen Gallery, London, sponsored by PLUME　Ltd.）                     

1998       The 4th Sapporo International Print Biennial (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art,  Japan) 

2000       The 5th Sapporo International Print Biennial (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art,  Japan) 

2000       Starting Point   (Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design, Aichi, Japan)
                
2001       "Cultural Colony" (Gallery Space "Atmosphere", Seoul, Korea)

2001        "Social Critique" (Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea)

2002        “Imagining the Book” (Bibliotheca Alexandria, Egypt )

2004        Aomori International Print Triennial (Aomori city Museum)

2005        “Imagining the Book 2” (Bibliotheca Alexandria, Egypt )

2006        Faculty Exhibition of　Nagoya Zokei　University　of Art & Design, department of Art (Nagoya)

2008        Faculty Exhibition of Nagoya Zokei Junior College of Art & Design, department of Art 

2010      　TRANSIT 2010 at Boise（Visual Art Collective, Boise, U.S.A）

2014　     Two Artists show "Japanese Painting & Illustration"
                    (SUB Gallery, Boise State University, U.S.A)
                               

Selected Solo Shows

2000        "Solo show of Prints" (Matsuzakaya Art Gallery, Nagoya) 

2003        “Beginning and Ending of Love”  (Gallery Garaku, Nagoya)

2005        “Towards Nature” (Gallery Garaku, Nagoya)

2007        “Form of Nature” (Gallery Garaku, Nagoya)

2009        “Memory of Life” (Gallery Garaku, Nagoya)

2009        “Memory of Life” (D-2 Gallery, Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design, Aichi)

2010 　     Solo Exhibition　（Inagaki Cosmic Gallery, Aichi）

2012　      “Invisible Life”（Gallery Garaku, Nagoya）

2015        “Transition of Life” (D-2 Gallery, Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design, Aichi)

Awards 

1996        Julian Trevelyan Hon. RE Memorial Award (National Print Exhibition)

2000        Sponsored Award (The 5th Sapporo International Print Biennial)

Publication

1997        "The Best of Printmaking" (Quarry Books, Gloucester, Massachusetts) (USA)

TV Programme

1998        "The Frontier" produced by Satellite Channels Inc. (Japan)

 






Studies and Drawings

Sketchbook

Artist Photo Collection

I just took a picture of a small eraser. But when I look at the picture, it looks like a fine sculpture. It's not as real as a food sample, so its cheap feeling is rather interesting. People don't know the size, and they wonder what this is, and it's full of mysterious charm.

After I retired from the university I was working for due to depression in 2019, I didn't feel like doing anything and I was away from production.

After that, my depression didn't go away and I had a gloomy day, but for me, who wasn't motivated and stayed at home all day without work, eating was the only thing I wanted to do.

At one point in 2022, I learned about the existence of NFT art, thought that I might be able to do it, and the desire to make it again grew.

I'm disgusted with human relationships and I'm in a withdrawn state where I don't interact with anyone, but I'm new to NFT art, where I can get the opportunity to present my work from production with just one computer while staying at home. I felt the possibility.

However, once I was away from production, I didn't know what to express, and I didn't have the theme I wanted to express.

So, anyway, I decided to draw my favorite thing in my life, and that's how I started this food series.

I didn't think I needed to use canvas or paint anymore, so I used Photoshop to draw what I was eating.

Next, at the pharmacy where I get the medicine of the doctor I go to every week, I found the small eraser in the shape of the food that I happened to find interesting, and with that as a motif, I took a picture this time and processed it with Photoshop. I came up with.

I'm also interested in food samples. But unlike real food samples,  I found the cheapness of the details interesting when I took a picture of an eraser, it's a mysterious and surrealistic finish. 

This time, I thought it would be interesting to take the work out to the city and put it in various places, so I tried it.

Of course, I didn't actually put it, I just played with the photos, but that was the next development.

Anyway, it's still a trial and error process, but I tried to make it into a work without decorating my daily life, which is my only purpose of life, the act of putting it on the way to take a walk after going to the doctor. ..

I will continue this routine for a while.



NFT works are sold on this site.　 

https://opensea.io/XYZM

 hot dog   2022


 whole cake    2022


 Angel french    2022


 sushi (tuna)     2022


 miso ramen     2022


 sushi (tuna) 2     2022


 sushi (egg) 2       2022


 Angel french 3      2022


　miso ramen 3      2022


 strawberry tart　  2022



 strawberry tart 2       2022



 strawberry tart 3       2022



 strawberry tart 4      2022



 cream puff       2022



  cream puff 2        2022



 cream puff 3        2022  



 hot dog 4       2022



  shake 4         2022



 hamburger          2022



　hamburger 2         2022

I started art when I was 15 years old. A junior high school art teacher at the time praised my painting so much and he advised me to start oil painting.

After entering high school, I joined the art club and started oil painting. After that, I entered an art university in Aichi prefecture, where I majored in Japanese painting.

After graduating, I became a high school art teacher in Aichi prefecture, but my work was hard and I couldn't keep up with the production.

After quitting as a high school teacher in five years, I started my career and went to England alone.

It was a big decision to quit my job, but I still want to be an artist.

I felt strongly that studying abroad in London was the best way to fulfill that dream that I couldn't throw away.

Anyway, it is the start of my new life, abandoning a stable life. And this was my second youth, and a turning point that changed my artist life.

I stayed in London for 4 years, and before that, I went to a language school in the town of Hove in the south of England to study English, so the total study abroad period is 4 and a half years, but I'm really glad I studied abroad. I think it was.

If I hadn't studied abroad in England, I wouldn't be there now. My life was completely different.

During my four years in London, I worked hard every day from morning till night. I've never been so absorbed in production.

But at this time, I enjoyed making it more than anything else, and I could feel my evolution every day. It was the most fulfilling and immersive time in my artist life.

Studying in London was the biggest turning point for me as an artist. It was an encounter with contemporary art.

The artist I was most influenced by at the time was Sol LeWitt. I wanted to draw as simple as possible by contrasting lines and surfaces (shapes), organic and inorganic, and eliminating colors. I wanted to draw a minimal drawing rather than a painting.

 And on the next stage, I met conceptual art and faced a new style change, and in parallel with this, this series of minimum drawings continued throughout my stay in London.

Let's start with this series of abstract works.

９４－１－１/ Screen print on paper / 770 x 560 mm / 1994 / ED.10


　
９４－１－２/ Screen print on paper / 770 x 560 mm / 1994 / ED.10


 　
９４－１－６/ Screen print on paper / 770 x 560 mm / 1994 / ED.10

 　
９６－１－１/ Screen print on paper / 1120 x 770 mm / 1996 / ED.25
９６－１－２/ Screen print on paper / 1120 x 770 mm / 1996 / ED.25



 　
９６－１－３/ Screen print on paper / 1120 x 770 mm / 1996 / ED.25
９６－１－４/ Screen print on paper / 1120 x 770 mm / 1996 / ED.25


      

９６－１－５/ Screen print on paper / 1120 x 770 mm / 1996 / ED.25
９６－１－６/ Screen print on paper / 1120 x 770 mm / 1996 / ED.25


  

９６－１－７/ Screen print on paper / 1120 x 770 mm / 1996 / ED.25
９６－１－８/ Screen print on paper / 1120 x 770 mm / 1996 / ED.25


　
９６－１－９/ Screen print on paper / 1120 x 770 mm / 1996 / ED.25
９６－１－１０/ Screen print on paper / 1120 x 770 mm / 1996 / ED.25

Exhibition at Central St. Martins College, London / 1996









９７－１  / Screen print on paper / 720 x 720 mm / 1997 / Ed. 6




９７－２－１(Red)  / Screen print on paper / 770 x 770 mm / 1997 / Ed. 5




９７－２－２(Red)  / Screen print on paper / 770 x 770 mm / 1997 / Ed. 9