HIDEYUKI SHOJI

1978 Born in Yamagata, JAPAN

Lives and work in UK

Hideyuki Shoji is a Japanese artist who works and lives in London. He was born in Yamagata Japan and he started his carrier of artist as a printmaking artist after graduated the Master degree at Yamagata University in Japan. He studied abroad to England and graduated from the Chelsea College of Art and Design with a BA (Hons).

 A recurring theme in Hideyuki’s work involves curiosity in and observation of everyday life. To make the everyday apparent, his work makes an absurd alteration to an object before putting it back into an everyday life situation.

 Hideyuki’s works often dealt with print and sculpture: using commonplace materials and suggesting alternative points of view within a social situation. To further exploit the realm of the unnoticed and overlooked within the complexities of everyday life, his work has become more performative recently. The works are no longer purely sculptural. He intervenes in a social structure with a performative activity, highlighting through a funny situation the otherwise everyday.

2009 Chelsea College of Art and Design, BA Fine Art　(Hon), UAL, UK
2004 Yamagata University, MA Education of Art and Design, JAPAN   

2002 Yamagata University, Education of Art and Design, JAPAN