Takahiko SUZUKI

Takahiko SUZUKI is a Japanese artist living in Taiwan. He was born in Shizuoka of Japan in 1962, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tama Art University in1985. Mr. SUZUKI left Japan in 2002 and he has accumulated many exhibition and resident experience around the world. 2006-2007, as a resident artist at Chiayi Railway Art Village. His career as an artist in Taiwan essentially began in Chiayi. It was during this period that the global-store project, which has continued for the past 15 years, was initiated.

"The overused cliche' term' 'globalization' is translated as 'cosmopolitanism' in Japanese, and it leaves me with an initial impression that 'the world is unified and equal,' even though it is the exact opposite."-Takahiko SUZUKI