Toshiko Nishikawa

I am an Japanese artist who is working and living in Manhattan, NY.


Toshiko's work, three dimensional work utilized an acrylic box and canvas unified in shiny peal white. Inside the acrylic box, numerous voluminous intertwining threads travel through the entire work, creating the form of a single soft object. While the viewer can perceive the presence of these aspects, they are inconsistent with everyday perception and past experiences. Moreover the combination of shaded and light reflecting parts bring forth the three dimensionality of this work. Robert Morris, who is regarded as one of the most prominent theorists and artist in the later period of Minimalism, wrote that art is a relationship between "Object", "Space", "Light", and "Viewer". Such relationships are seen in the work of Toshiko. It is possible to observe her strong commitment to the "structure of the view". If one is to highlight the difference between Morris's text and Toshiko's work, Morris equates various phenomena with the "structure of view" seeing it as a work of art in itself, while Toshiko's work might be viewed as a catalyst for rousing various "structures of view". Minimalism has been called the pinnacle of Modernism, emphasizing aspect such as...

Received BFA from Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan.
Solo Exhibition
2006-7,Solo Exhibition, Agora Gallery, NY . 10.21.2006 - 1.21.2007.


Exhibition & Open studio.

2009 Frolence Biennale.
2009 Agora Gallery in NY,
2.24-3.14
2009 Ico Gallery in NY, 1.6.2009-1.30.
2008, JAA Exhibition, NY, 8.19 - 8. 30.2008
2008 Bodensee Art Fair, Dornbirn, Austria, Group Show Galerie Fetzer, 7.24.2008 7.27.2008
2008 HAFA Exhibition, Miwa Salon, NY, 1.16 - 3.12.2008
2007 Toast walk, open Studio in Tribeca, NY , 4.27 - 4.30.2007
2006-7,Solo Exhibition, Agora Gallery, NY . 10.21.2006 - 1.21.2007.
2006 Art Now, Hiroshima city in Japan. 8.18 -8.22.2006
2006 Contemporaley Art Exhibition at NYCoo Gallery, NY. 5.03 - 5.27. 2006
2005 invitation show at Yokohama City Hall, Japan. 3.11 - 3.16. 2006
2005 invitation show at kanagawa prefecture Hall, Japan 3.11 - 3.16. 2006
2005 JAA, Group Exhibition at Hammond museum , NY. 10.5 -11.12.2005
2005 HAFA 2 Exhibion at Miwa - Alex Salon, NY. 10.15 - 11.19.2005
2005 TAF, Group Exhibiton at Fukuoka Japan. 10.25 - 10.30.2005
2005 JAA Group show at Hammond Museum, NY. 10.5 - 11.12. 2005
2005 JAA Group show at Tenri Gallery, NY. 8.30 - 9.13. 20...

Senbazuru , solo exhibition at The Vilcelk Foundation gallery in NYC, NY 2010.