Tobias Fifield

Toby creates engaging art that evokes both the emotional and social from viewers. His new workcultivates a sense of interdependence, promoting social interaction among strangers, andincreasing viewers’ curiosity in innovative sculptural forms. His artworks have been on public viewin Major Art Museums in Asia, International Children’s Museums, Art Galleries, Art Universities andExposition Centers including the Children's Museum of Art (Japan), the Chosun-ilbo Art Museum(Korea), The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and most recently in Hong Kong/China, Indiaand Thailand. Toby's professional work experience as a designer in industrial design influenced hisskills in his art and his teaching. He has taken teaching residencies and artist-in-residence programsin Korea, India, Japan, and Thailand.

Toby was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and gained his inspiration from his grandfather Patrick Raymond Fifield who worked as Commercial Artist in Gold Leaf & Screen-printing signage design inWoodside, California. Toby holds a Bachelor's of Fine Art from the California College of the Arts anda Masters in Education from the University of California Santa Cruz, obtained in South Korea duringhis teaching residency at the National University of Art Education, where he taught twentydifferent Art Workshops in Media Art; Perceptual Drawing, Painting and Papier Mach'e Sculpture,and also other Workshops at various Art galleries in Seoul, South Korea, And a print-makingworkshops at the Tokyo Exposition Center "Big Site", Tokyo, Japan, The Children's Museum of Art,Hamada, Japan, and group shows in universities and museums, in Asia.