Meet the artists with whom we have created Public Art.
IGARASHI Takenobu
五十嵐威暢
Artist
INUDO Tsugio
犬童次夫
Painter
Born in Hokkaido in 1944.
He is active worldwide as a graphic product designer. In 1994 he turned to sculptor. Based at the Takenobu Igarashi Museum Kazenobi in Shintotsukawa-cho, Hokkaido, he creates sculptures using materials such as wood, ceramics, metal, stone, and stained glass, with the motto of "art in everyday scenes.''
In 2020, he received the Hokkaido Cultural Award.
In 2023, the "IGARASHI TAKENOBU Archive" was opened within Kanazawa Institute of Technology.
He is a support ambassador for Shintotsukawa Town in Hokkaido, and a professor emeritus after serving as president of Tama Art University. Passed away in 2025.
Born in Isa city (former Ookuchi city), Kagoshima prefecture in 1922.
His feature is free and vigorous style which has been cultivated in the southern country with the sun and green, and his works, whose screens shine brilliantly and colors (called "Inudo colors") gush like fountains, have gotten great reputations.
He is working as a key role in developing juniors as well as production activities, and is one of the precious artists representing Kagoshima.
Kagoshima prefectural citizens' prize, Southern Japan Cultural Awards, Local Cultural Merit at Commendation of Minister of Education、Culture and Science, etc. were given to his art works and his contributions for art education promotion, etc. Passed away in 2018.
