His work Cocoon was a giant Cocoon, using recycle material of silk floss, and textile and bamboo. In 2013, Eiji Sumi participated in the Art on Farm series by the Jim Thompson Farm. The work he exhibited consisted of “incredibly complex scenes of actual places he has visited in cities around the world, including New York and Amsterdam, in one long connected line, an effect that gives the images a tension-ridden feeling of instability in excess”. Shiner (then director of the Andy Warhol Gallery). In 2007, he participated in the Landscape Exhibition at the Onishi Gallery in New York City curated by Eric C. His varied works have been described to "often feature elaborate structures and new spatial experiences, using light as his principal medium." He has named Joseph Beuys, James Turrell and Eva Hesse among the artists that inspire him. While there he gained attention for a variety of project and worked as an artist assistant to Italian master painter Stefano Castronovo. After moving to New York City in 1993 he transformed his career in fine art to include design, multimedia and installation. In addition to his art works he also is a full-time lecturer in the Communication Design program at Chulalongkorn University.
He has held numerous exhibitions internationally, and has been curated by Eric Shiner, Vice President at Sotheby's New York and previously director of the Andy Warhol Museum, and Helen Wu, the producer and co-curator of Paper Rain Parade seen in Art Basel Hong Kong. His polycarbonate origami sculpture, Sinusold, was a finalist in The Sovereign Asian Art Prize for 2016.
He is most widely known for his installation art projects, such as Densen/Plus "a mixed-media exhibition that aimed to raise awareness of the need to put power cables underground, and QUARK, a science art project inspired by the way highly reflective powder material looks when caught in light that visualize aero dynamics and fluid dynamics and was described as "mesmerizing" and "enchanting" by the Bangkok Post. Born in Tokyo, he lived New York from 1993 to 2012.
Installation art, Multi-media art, Sculpture, Graphic DesignĮiji Sumi (隅 英二）(born 1970) is a Japanese artist based in Bangkok, Thailand since 2012.
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