Tetsuya Ishida Untitled Exhibition Poster, 2022

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Untitled Exhibition Poster, 2022
Artist: Tetsuya Ishida
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity
Dimension: 27 1/2 × 19 3/4 in … Read more Untitled Exhibition Poster, 2022
Artist: Tetsuya Ishida
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity
Dimension: 27 1/2 × 19 3/4 in | 70 × 50 cm

An original exhibition poster produced in 2022 for Haunted Realism, a group exhibition held in London. Featuring Tetsuya Ishida's painting Untitled (2003), the work depicts a naked man wearing a baby with spectral images of a family drifting before him as a stream of milk pours from the baby's bottle. The exhibition focused on a sense that the aspirations of modernity are now "lost futures" and Ishida's quietly devastating imagery is among its most haunting expressions.


Tetsuya Ishida
Japanese, 1973–2005

Tetsuya Ishida's Kafkaesque paintings reflect the psychological malaise of growing up in Japan's "lost decade" of economic turmoil. His paintings depict humanoid figures in surreal environments, reflecting on uncertainty and unease. Ishida's practice grew out of a self-portraiture that used absurdist humor to address his emotional abjection. "I tried to make myself—my weak self, my pitiful self, my anxious self—into a joke or something funny that could be laughed at," the artist once said. Over a career of just ten years, Ishida conjured vivid allegories of the challenges to Japanese life and morale, charged with an eerie, cinematic realism. His paintings have been exhibited at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Wrightwood 659, Chicago; the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; and in New York, among other institutions. See less