Tsuyoshi Yamada

Artist, Representative of Tadahon-ya

Born in Tokyo in 1981. Graduated from Musashino Art University, College of Art and Design, Department of Arts Policy and Management in 2003. He is currently enrolled in the doctoral course at the Graduate school of Kyoto City University of Arts. Part-time teacher at Kyoto University of the Arts (Former Kyoto University of Art and Design). In 2015, he launched Tadahon-ya in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto City, and has expanded his activities to Hamada City in Shimane Prefecture and Mimata-cho in Miyazaki Prefecture. In 2017, he started a project for a Byproducts Market with Yoshitaka Yazu. He is currently involved in various place-making activities in addition to creating artworks, such as opening an art room in a municipal housing complex in Kyoto City.

 

Byproducts Market (Yoshitaka Yazu& Tsuyoshi Yamada)

This is a materials recycling project in which attractive waste materials from artists’ studios are called “byproducts” and are collected and sold. The “byproducts” that are created in the process of creating artworks are things that had been placed in a corner of the studio and were destined to be thrown away. I would like to create an opportunity to rethink the value and potential of things by highlighting those things that are less than the works of art that are imbued with the sensitivity of each artist. Their major exhibitions include Yanbaru Art Festival 2019-2020 (Okinawa) and Kameoka Kiri Art Cultivation (Kyoto). Based in Kyoto.