Keizo ushio biography of abraham

We offer our congratulations to Keizo Ushio, who is the second artist to become a member of the Double Decade Club for Sculpture by the Sea at Bondi, having exhibited 20 times since 1999.

Keizo Ushio is one of Japan’s most highly regarded sculptors and is renowned internationally for his extraordinary granite sculptures. This year the artist exhibits in our Sydney exhibition for the 20th consecutive year.

His ingenious carving technique, based on the mathematics of the Moebius strip is extremely difficult to realise in granite, making his work popular with the public and collectors across the world.

Ushio graduated from the Kyoto City of University of Arts in 1976 and, upon receiving First Prize at the Henry Moore Exhibition at the Hakone Open Air Museum in 1979, began developing his signature style of sculpting.

His carving technique is influenced by the mathematics of