Tetsuya Ishida

Japanese | 1973 - 2005

Tetsuya Ishida was a Japanese Asian Modern & Contemporary painter who was born in 1973. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Gagosian, New York (555 W 24th) have featured Tetsuya Ishida's work in the past.Tetsuya Ishida's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 1,114 USD to 1,027,486 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2006 the record price for this artist at auction is 1,027,486 USD for The Men On A Belt Conveyor 運輸帶上的男人, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong in 2022. Tetsuya Ishida has been featured in articles for Wallpaper , South China Morning Post and Observer. The most recent article is How This Cult Japanese Artist’s Eerie Paintings Foretold Our Digital Malaise written for CNN in February 2024. The artist died in 2005.

Cell Phone Robot and Laptop Boy - Tetsuya Ishida

Cell Phone Robot and Laptop Boy, 1996

acrylic on board

103.0☓145.6cm, 40.6☓57.3in

Untitled, 2003

acrylic and oil on canvas

72.7 x 91 cm

TOYOTA IPSUM, 1996

acrylic on paper laid on panel

59.4 x 84.1 cm. (23 3/8 x 33 1/8 in.)

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At Auction

Recent Auction Results

Untitled

By Tetsuya Ishida

Christie's Hong Kong

Tetsuya Ishida Memorial Print 2014

By Tetsuya Ishida

+60%

above mid-estimate

Mallet Japan

Untitled

By Tetsuya Ishida

+253%

above mid-estimate

SBI Art Auction

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Past Exhibitions

The Irreplaceable Human

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Humlebæk | Denmark

Nov 23,2023 - Apr 01,2024

Kafka: 1924

Museum Villa Stuck

Munich | Germany

Oct 26,2023 - Feb 11,2024

Tetsuya Ishida: My Anxious Self

Gagosian, New York (555 W 24th)

Chelsea | New York | USA

Sep 12,2023 - Oct 21,2023

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Articles

How This Cult Japanese Artist’s Eerie Paintings Foretold Our Digital Malaise

CNN 20/02/2024

In the land of Hello Kitty, kawaii (“cute”) culture and the Neo-Pop art of 1990s Japan, Tetsuya Ishida was an outlier.

AI and Creativity: Louisiana Museum Considers the Human in the Machine

Wallpaper 11/12/2023

‘The Irreplaceable Human’ at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark asks what creativity is in the age of AI.

Paintings of Tetsuya Ishida, late Japanese artist who was a prophet of urban alienation, get major showcase at Gagosian Gallery in New York

South China Morning Post 15/10/2023

Everything kawaii art is not, Ishida‘s gloomy paintings that portray people as lonely cogs in the machine of Japan’s post-bubble economy were slow to catch on.

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Coverage

“ ..Ishida came of age as a painter during Japan’s “lost decade,” a time of nationwide economic recession that lasted through the 1990s... ”
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Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong

“ ..Across a short ten-year career, Ishida produced a formidable body of work centered on isolation and alienation in a world dominated by uncontrollable forces, where recurring images of school children and... ”
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Wrightwood 659

“ ..In nightmarish scenes, suited figures made in Ishida's own likeness but possessing machine or animal parts are depicted being boxed and repaired, like helpless objects... ”
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Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong

“ ..Ishida blended dreamlike realities with everyday life and melancholy isolation with bizarre wit, producing a body of work that triggers strong emotions but actively resists easy explanation... ”
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Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

“ .. Ishida noted being drawn to artists who “feel the pain of all mankind” and who “truly believe that the world is saved a little with each brushstroke.” Ishida’s desire to use humor as a way of dissipating... ”
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Asian Art Museum of San Francisco