1960

Born in Saga Prefecture, Japan

1986

M.F.A., University of Tsukuba, Master's Program in Art and Design, Western Style Painting

1988-90

Royal College of Art, Faculty of Fine Art, Master's Degree Course in Painting

2023

Tsuyoshi Higashijima: I'm back again, Blue Setouchi. (Agedor, Okayama)

2022

Tsuyoshi Higashijima: I'm back again. (rin art association, Gunma)
Tsuyoshi Higashijima: I'm Back (Porsche, Hiroshima)
Tsuyoshi Higashijima: Me-3.0 (Art Gallery X, Takashimaya, Tokyo)

2020

Tsuyoshi HIGASHIJIMA: Maybe, it's all right (GATEAU FESTA HARADA GALLERY, Gunma)

2018

Tsuyoshi Higashijima-Dual (Kitakyusyu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka)
Tsuyoshi Higashijima (rin art association, Gunma)

2017

Tsuyoshi Higashijima Solo Exhibition "Moment - Residence in Tokyo", Arai Associates, Tokyo

2016

Kuandu Residency Program Tsuyoshi Higashijima (Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan)
Tsuyoshi Higashijima (Art Gallery X, Takashimaya, Tokyo)

2015

Tsuyoshi Higashijima: Scars and Light, Yurinso, Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki

2014

Tsuyoshi Higashijima: Water Self-Portraits (ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka)

2012

Sora no Mizu [Water in the sky] (Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art, Okayama)
On the Absence of Obstruction: Another View (The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo)

2011

World and Solitude Vol.1 Tsuyoshi Higashijima, produced by Kyotaro Hakamata (Art Gallery X, Takashimaya, Tokyo)
On the Absence of Obstruction (Contemporary Art Space (CASO), Osaka)

2010

Sorezore no houi no jyuninn no tameni [For the residents in all directions] (Contemporary Art Space (CASO), Osaka)

2009

Kaiga Hikari wo mageru [Paintings that bend light] (INAX Gallery 2, Tokyo)

2008

Tsuyoshi Higashijima (Dai-chi Life Gallery, Tokyo) ['99, '97]
E-PICTURE (Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori)

2007

Selected Works 1988-2006 (The Okayama Prefectural Museum, Okayama)
Tsuyoshi Higashijima New Works (Akira Ikeda Gallery Taura, Kanagawa)

2005

My eye, right side (Contemporary Art Space (CASO), Osaka)
Tsuyoshi Higashijima Paintings "My eye, right side", Art Garden, Okayama

2000

Recent Works 25 Tsuyoshi Higashijima (The National Museum of Art, Osaka)
Art Vision Vol.5 Tsuyoshi Higashijima (Nariwa Museum, Okayama)

1995

Tsuyoshi Higashijima New Works (Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo)

2023

VOCA 30 YEARS STORY / KOBE (Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art Oji Branch Haradanomori Gallery, Hyogo)

2022

VOCA 30 YEARS STORY / Tokyo (Dai-chi Life Lobby, Tokyo)

2021

TOKYO☆VOCA II (Dai-chi Life Lobby, Tokyo)

2020

Heimen to Rittai [Painting & Sculpture]―Kyomei suru Nostalgia [Resonant Nostalgia] , (Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo / Kyoto / Osaka / Nagoya)

2019

Our Collections!: Tottori Prefecture Art Collection, Until Now and From Now On (Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori)

2016

Boy's drawing (Gallery Haku, Osaka)
The Best Selection of the Ohara Museum of Art (The National Art Center, Tokyo)

2014

Ohara Contemporary At Musabi (Musashino Art University Museum, Tokyo)
Tsuyoshi Higashijima + Takeshi Honda: Water in Winter, Walking in the Mountains (Iwate Museum of Art, Iwate)

2013

Ohara Contemporary (Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama)

2012

Drawing Lessons (Kyoto University Art & Design Galerie Aube, Kyoto)
IMAMURA Hajime, HAKAMATA Kyotaro, HIGASHIJIMA Tsuyoshi: Melting Zone (ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka)

2010

Primary Field II (The Museum of Modern Art Hayama, Kanagawa)
Kazuhiro Nomura / Tsuyoshi Higashijima Miru-koto wo Kanngaeru [Think of seeing] (Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima)

2007

DOMANI 2007 (Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo)

2006

Art in Fukuju-kaikan (Fukuyama-City Fukuju-kaikan, Hiroshima)
The Present State of Contemporary Art, Selected Works from VOCA Exhibition (Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi)

2002

Takahide Koike, Tsuyoshi Higashijima (Akira Ikeda Gallery Berlin, Germany)

2001

Futuro Anteriore Arte attuale dal Giappone
(Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy)

2000

The Impressionists and Expression of Light - Monet, Renoir to Contemporary Art:
Light In Art Modern (Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima)

1996

The Vision of Contemporary Art (VOCA '96) (The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo)

1995

Allegory of Seeing 1995: Painting and Sculpture in Contemporary Japan
(Saison Museum of Art, Tokyo)
Mito Annual '95: Thinking of the picture-Receptacle and Measure (Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki)

2020

The 78th Sanyo Shinbun Prize, Cultural Encouragement Award, Okayama

2014

The Okayama Prefecture Cultural Prize, Encouragement Award 2013, Okayama

2008

Artist in Residence Program 2008 / autumn,The Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori

2002

The Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists, Agency of Cultural Affairs (Studied in Berlin, to March 2003)

1996

The Vision of Contemporary Art VOCA Prize, Tokyo
The New Artist Prize of Fine Arts Division, Gotoh Cultural Award, the Gotoh The Memorial Foundation, Tokyo (Studied in New York,to April 1997)

1988

The Rotary Foundation Scholarship, Saitama

Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima / Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama / The Okayama Prefectural Museum, Okayama / The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Kanagawa / The National Museum of Art, Osaka / Kyoto University Art and Design, Kyoto / Dai-ichi Life Gallery, Tokyo / Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan