Toshio Iwai CV
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Toshio Iwai
Born in 1962. Since when he was a university student, Iwai became involved in experimental animation, film and video, while he was interested in the potential of flip books, zoetropes and other visual illusions of pre-cinema history. Then he shifted to art produced on computers, in 1985, his installation Time Stratum II won the grand prize at the 17th annual Modern Japanese Art Awards, as the youngest award-winner. His works were exhibited world-widely (at the Seville EXPO, the Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon and the the Guggenheim Museum in New York etc.), also had been invited as a visiting artist at the San Francisco Exploratorium, ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, and IAMAS. Iwai then subsequently became a pioneering new media artist whose wide-ranging output includes the TV show Ugo Ugo Ruga, the Bouncing Totoro exhibit at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, as well as computer game software. In 1997, he had a retrospective one-man exhibition at ICC in Tokyo, also had the performance in collaboration with SAKAMOTO Ryuichi. This performance went on to which the Golden Nica the Interactive Art Division at the 1997 Prix Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. Besides the works as the Nintendo DS game Electroplankton, and the Tenori-on electronic musical instrument made with Yamaha, he was evaluated as a children’s book author in 2006 by his bestselling series, The House with 100 Stories has sold 4 million. Recently, after solo exhibitions at the Museum of Art, Ibaraki and Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT], he held a large-scale solo exhibition as a comprehensive overview of his career (2024), including a collection of visual equipment at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, where he had participated in its very beginning days since 1990.岩井俊雄（いわいとしお）
1962年生まれ。大学時代に実験アニメーション制作を始め、1985年に、驚き盤やゾートロープなど19世紀の映像装置に想を得た《時間層II》で第17回「現代日本美術展」大賞を最年少受賞した。コンピュータによる制作を続け、国内外の美術館で多数の作品を発表し、米エクスプロラトリアム、独ZKM、岐阜のIAMASに客員芸術家として招かれ、音楽ソフトや「ウゴウゴルーガ」などテレビ番組のキャラクター・CGシステムのデザイン、三鷹の森ジブリ美術館の映像装置など幅広い領域で活動する。1997年にはNTTインターコミュニケーション・センター[ICC]の開館展として個展を開催後、坂本龍一とのパフォーマンスでアルスエレクトロニカ1997グランプリを受賞。以降もニンテンドーDSによる作品「エレクトロプランクトン」(2005)、ヤマハと共同開発の電子楽器「TENORI-ON」（第12回文化庁メディア芸術祭大賞受賞）発表に加え、絵本の創作に注力する。国内外で知られ400万部を超える『100かいだてのいえ』(2008）シリーズはじめ著作多数。茨城県立美術館やシビック・クリエイティブ・ベース東京 [CCBT]の個展を経て、最初期の1990年より展示に参加した東京都写真美術館で、映像装置コレクションを含む大規模個展(2024)を開催した。
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