• Update Date: 2025.11.15
• Category: Talk Event

Yasuyuki Nishio x Naoya Hirata Talk Session

ANOMALY will host a talk event on the opening day of Yasuyuki Nishio’s solo exhibition “Compactification”, on Saturday, November 22.
We are pleased to welcome artist Naoya Hirata as our guest speaker.

Both artists work with sculpture while incorporating VR into their practice, and this talk will offer a valuable opportunity to delve into their respective backgrounds, ways of thinking, and current areas of interest.

We look forward to welcoming you.

Date & Time：    Saturday, November 22, 16:00–17:30

Speakers:   Yasuyuki Nishio, Naoya Hirata (Artists)

Language:   Japanese

Admission:   Free
*Please note that seating is limited and standing room may be required.

Venue:   ANOMALY, Tokyo

Speakers` Profile:

Yasuyuki Nishio

Yasuyuki Nishio is a contemporary artist and Professor in the Department of Sculpture at Tokyo University of the Arts. Born in Tokyo in 1967, he graduated from the Department of Sculpture at Musashino Art University in 1991.

His major solo exhibitions include “REM (Rapid Eye Movement)” (2016, Yamamoto Gendai, Tokyo) and “Exoticism” (2012, Yamamoto Gendai). Recent group exhibitions include “Veins of Japanese Art: Searching for Future National Treasures” (2025, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka), “A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection” (2024, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo), and “Reborn-Art Festival: Altruism and Fluidity” (2021, Miyagi).

His publications include “The Physically Perfect Child“ and “The Nishio Grave”, both published by Akio Nagasawa Publishing. While his practice spans sculpture, painting, and computer graphics, Nishio is best known for his sculptural works produced using “negative casting,” a distinctive technique, through which he continues to explore themes of emptiness and the void.

Naoya Hirata

Born in Nagano, Japan in 1991. Graduated from the Department of Sculpture, College of Art and Design, Musashino Art University in 2014.

Hirata’s practice focuses on virtual space, the condition of the illusory image, and ontological modes of existence. Using found 3D models and image data collected from the internet as his material, he constructs visual assemblages within virtual environments on the computer. Through the handling of illusory images and objects, his work distances itself from anthropocentric frameworks of perception, exploring impersonal possibilities of space and the body. By presenting phenomena that cannot be reduced to preexisting interpretive frameworks such as “meaning” or “relation,” his work is also an attempt to approach an indivisible dimension of existence.