Toyo Tsuchiya

Toyo Tsuchiya
Birth name Toyo Tsuchiya
Born Japan
Occupation(s) Artist/Photographer

Toyo Tsuchiya is a Japanese born artist and photographer and one of the early artists involved in the Rivington School art movement of the East Village art scene of New York City of the 1980s.

Toyo Tsuchiya moved from Japan to New York in 1980.[1] He was a director of many of the performances and exhibitions at the club No Se No, which was the club that many of the Rivington School artists would meet and perform and show their art work.[2] As a photographer, Tsuchiya was able to document much of the early history of the Rivington School.[3]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/18/arts/art-in-review-toyo-tsuchiya-six-o-clock-observed.html
  2. ↑ http://rivingtonschool.com/toyo.html
  3. ↑ http://rivingtonschool.com/toyo.html

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