Hiroshi Fuji
Born in Kagoshima in 1960. While he was in Kyoto City University of Arts, he devoted himself to drama. After working as a tutor in Papua New Guinea National Arts School and an urban design consultant in Tokyo, he practiced project-based artistic expressions across Japan.
In 1992, he received the grand prize for Japan Art Scholarship at “2025 Pond of the Frogs Symposium.” He has been involved in many international art projects at home and abroad including SITE Santa Fe Biennale, Setouchi International Art Festival, etc.
Other works are “101 Skinny Dogs” created from pillars of dismantled houses, “Stories of Rice Frogs” started from rice worth a month’s salary, “Vinyl Plastics Connection” which accumulates household waste materials, “Kaekko” and “Jurassic Plastic” which use unused toys, “Hachijuro Fujishima” which makes a fictional key person, etc. Currently Professor at Akita University of Art after serving as Director of Towada Art Center.