Ryuta Suzuki 铃木隆太

Ryuta Suzuki, born in Shizuoka, Japan in 1984, graduated from Tama Art University in 2006, and Camberwell College of Arts MA Visual Arts in 2009, majoring in printmaking. He currently lives and works in Suzhou, China.

 

The living experience in Tokyo, London and mainland China has offered different perspectives for Ryuta Suzuki to view the world. He captures and records life by collecting images and photographs, utilizing different print-making methods to cover different “layers”on the “primary forms”, aiming at creating his own interpretation towards different cultural structures, social environments and political backgrounds. Diverse visual effects emerge through different print-making processes. His works depict the “primary forms” and “presentations” of daily-life issues and objects, which reveals the dual characters of conventional affairs in daily life.

 

Suzuki has participated many group shows around the world including art venues in Japan, UK, USA, Germany, Italy, Romania, Thailand, South Korea and China. His works have been shown in institutions such as Today Art Museum (Beijing, China), Nagoya City Museum (Nagoya, Japan), Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangzhou, China), Tama Art University (Tokyo, Japan) and Camberwell College of Arts (London, the UK). He was awarded on 72th Print Exhibition Yamaguchi Gen Novice Prize and was named for the 2nd Nanjing International Art Festival Excellence Prize. His academic contributions are accepted by Tama Art University (Japan), Machida International Print Museum (Japan),  Numazu City Public Collection (Japan), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art (Taiwan), Guangdong Museum of Art (China), S x V Museum of Modern Art (Qingdao, China).