ZOSHI, Takayuki

 

 

1949  Born in Oita, Japan
1967  Oita Midorigaoka Art Institute

1981  Participated in an 8 month Peace Walk, an anti-nuclear weapon campaign.  While walking from LA to NY, I carved my very first Buddhist image as a personal protector and symbol of inner peace.

2021 Returned back to Japan 

2026 Resides in Suo Oshima, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

 

EXHIBITIONS

Solo Exhibitions

​   2026 Blue Cat Studio, Suo Oshima

   2024 O-kura Usuki, Oita Japan

   2024 Hajimari , Oita Japan

   2024 Komichi Mie, Oita Japan

   2024 Holt Hall, Oita, Japan

   2024 Bungo Takda

   2018 Flytrap Studio, Oakland California

   2016 Flytrap Studio, Oakland California

   2014 Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Gallery III
                        "Beauty from Spirit of Wood?

   2013 Corrick’s, Santa Rosa California
   2012 Flytrap Studio, Oakland California
   2011  Flytrap Studio, Oakland California
   2006  San Francisco Zen Center, San Francisco, California
   2001  Open Studio for San Francisco de Young Museum, Napa, California

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Group Exhibitions
   2011-2019 Art at the Source open studios tour, Sonoma, California
   2013 Corrick’s, Santa Rosa, California
   2013 State of California Oakland Museum, California
   2012 – 2014 ARTrails, Sonoma County, California
   2010-2012 Sonoma Mountain Zen Center Mandala Bazaar Sonoma California
   2012 Matsuri Festival, Santa Rosa, California
   2012 State of California Oakland Museum, Oakland California
   2011 Flytrap Studio, Oakland California
   2010 The San Francisco Arts of Pacific Asia Show Fort Mason, SF CA
   2008 Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, California
   2005-2007  San Francisco Triangle Gallery San Francisco, California
   2006  Gualala Art Center Gualala, California
   2005-2006  Sebastopol Art Center Sebastopol, California

                      "Temples’ Collections"
   2013 Hannya Bosatsu, statue image of Buddha, Eugene Zendo, Oregon
   2012 Calligraphy Sign, Green Gulch Zen Center, Sausalito, California
   2008  Fudo Myo-o standing position (270cm)  Daihorinji Temple, Oita, Japan
   2006  Fudo Myo-o sitting position (115cm) Fudoin Temple, Miyazaki, Japan
   2003  Sanmendaikoku (87cm) Shuzenin Temple Ibaragi, Japan
   1998  Shinran Shonin (128cm)  Buddhist Church of Oakland, California
   1992  Aizen Myo-o (130cm)  Shingonshu Ji’in Temple, Fukuoka, Japan   
   1989  Thousand-Arm Quan Yin (98cm)  Fudo Do Oita, Japan
   1988  Amidanyorai  (120cm)  Daihorinji Temple Oita, Japan

 

ARTICLEAS/MEDIA

   Web article: “A Conversation with Zoshi: Spirit Carver,” Work & Conversation, Nov. 2011.

   BaySpo, Jan 27, 2006
   Turning Wheel Special Issue,”Carving Buddhas for Peace,” Fall/Winter 2006
   Telecom Magazine, “Feature Article,” Oct 1999,

   Hokubei Mainichi, “Feature Article,” April 3, 1999
   San Francisco Nichibei Times, “Feature Article,” Dec 3, 1998
   Mon Magazine, San Francisco “Feature,” Article, Nov 1997

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Other Commissions / Projects 
   2012 Image of Mother and Child carved on a live tree, Ragle Park Peace Place, California

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Galleries
   Japonesque, San Francisco, California
   Ren Brown Collection, Bodega, California