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Yoshihiro Suda is known for his realistic sculptures and carvings of plants and flowers. He was born in the countryside of Yamanashi Prefecture, where he grew up at the foot of Mount Fuji and lived surrounded by nature until the age of 18 years old. He studied at the Tama Art University, where his love for contemporary art and wood carving began.

At the beginning of the 1990s, Suda was looking for a venue for his first exhibition.

“I would walk around the city. And I noticed the parking meters along the road. I found this a very attractive space. So, I decided to pay at the parking meter and make my exhibition there.” He created a box trailer and placed it at the parking meter, where people could enter and see his artwork.

Influenced by the great Japanese sculptors, Suda pushes the limits and ideas of what a work of art is or should be. He sees the surrounding space as an essential part of the artwork itself.

“Now, I have been doing my craft for more than 30 years. And it’s safe to say that your craft gets better the more you do it. But arts and crafts are something you have to cultivate inside of you all your life.”

Yoshihiro Suda (born in 1969 in Yamanashi, Japan) is a Japanese artist known for his hyper-realistic sculptures of plants and flowers created in the tradition of Japanese wood carving. Major exhibitions include Ginza Weed Theory 1993, in Tokyo, 2004, at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Arts, Kagawa, in 2006. At Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Yoshihiro Suda has contributed to Standard (2001) and Naoshima Standard 2 (2006-2007) and has created the commissioned work, Weeds (2002). Suda also showed his work at Galeria Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid, Spain, and Loock Galerie, Berlin, in Germany.