Toyo Tsuchiya (1948 – 23 November 2017) was a Japanese born artist and photographer and one of the early artists involved in the

Rivington School Rivington School was a movement that emerged from the East Village art scene in the 1980s in New York City. Most of the artists of the Rivington School were either involved in welding, forging, performance or street painting. The group started in ...

art movement of the East Village art scene of

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...

of the 1980s. Toyo Tsuchiya moved from

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

in 1980. He was a director of many of the performances and exhibitions at the club No Se No, which was the club that many of the

artists would meet and perform and show their art work. As a photographer, Tsuchiya was able to document much of the early history of the

. He was a member of the

NO!Art NO!art is a radical avant-garde anti-art movement started in New York in 1959. Its founders sought to deliver a shock to the complacent consumerist society around them. The movement was initiated by Boris Lurie, Sam Goodman and Stanley Fisher who ...

movement.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tsuchiya, Toyo 1948 births 2017 deaths Japanese contemporary artists Artists from New York (state) Japanese photographers Japanese expatriates in the United States Date of birth missing