During Japan’s “Lost Decade,” a prolonged recession that marked the 1990s, Tetsuya Ishida emerged as an artist. While other Japanese artists embraced the “Kawaii” cuteness movement in response to the ...

When the largest western exhibition of Tetsuya Ishida’s paintings went on display at Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofia, it was “extremely popular, especially with young people,” said Teresa Velazquez, the ...

In the land of Hello Kitty, kawaii (“cute”) culture and the Neo-Pop art of 1990s Japan, Tetsuya Ishida was an outlier. The surrealist artist, who died in 2005 aged 31, wasn’t a loner, according to ...

More than two decades ago, when Tetsuya Ishida was still a young emerging artist in Japan, he was already dreaming big. He had his eyes set on New York, wishing that he would one day have his solo ...

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Mebae (Awakening), (1998), Acrylic on board 145, 6 x 206 cm 57.3 x 81.1 in Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, © Tetsuya Ishida, 2019; Photograph: Takemi Art Photos ...

The "Lost Decade" refers to the economic downturn that occurred in Japan during the 1990s, lasting for an extended period. Japan experienced rapid economic growth after World War II but faced a ...

Gagosian will participate in the fourth edition of Frieze Seoul at COEX, opening September 3, 2025, with paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by an international grouping of gallery artists. A ...

Tetsuya Ishida was a Japanese artist known for his painting that often depicted themes of isolation, consumerism, academic & professional workplace anxieties, and urban banality. His work is ...