Artist's profile

Yoshinari NISHIO was born in Nara, Japan, 1982. He has been studying Inter Media Art at Graduate School of Fine Arts, Ph.D. courses, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He is also working as research fellow at both the Human Innovation Research Center (HiRC), Aoyama Gakuin University and the Studio for Heuristic Learning Environments ( Heu-Le).
As for main solo-exhibition, Yoshinari NISHIO (The Kyoto Costume Institute KCI Gallery, Japan, 2006), Self Select (Gallery Cesar Harada, France, 2007). As for main group-exhibition, Media City Seoul 2006 (Seoul City Museum, Korea, 2006), IDEAL Forum (Café Moskau, Germany, 2008), Happiness In Everyday Life (Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Japan, 2008). As for award, Good Design Award (2006, 2008 in Japan), Kids Design Award (2007 in Japan), Japan-EU Design Competition Semi-Grand Prix (2008), etc. His work book “YOSHINARI NISHIO Fashionscape” (fabre8710, 2006) in print now.