Artist

Kishio Suga

Portrait of Kishio Suga
Portrait of Kishio Suga

Japanese, b. 1944

Kishio Suga is a Japanese artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Kishio Suga was born in Morioka.

Kishio Suga (菅 木志雄, Suga Kishio) (born 1944), is a Japanese sculptor and installation artist currently living in Itō, Shizuoka, Japan. He is one of the key members of Mono-ha, a group of artists who became prominent in the late 1960s and 1970s. The Mono-ha artists explored the encounter between natural and industrial materials, such as stone, steel plates, glass, light bulbs, cotton, sponge, paper, wood, wire, rope, leather, oil, and water, arranging them in mostly unaltered, ephemeral states.

The works focus as much on the interdependency of these various elements and the surrounding space as on the materials themselves.

Works by Kishio Suga

Collections represented

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