Yuki Tsuji

Yuki Tsuji is the director of ART360° and the CEO of Actual Inc. His primary focus is the design of projects that address potential issues rooted in intangible factors such as flow, relationship and experience in the multidisciplinary field of business. After studying product design in Kyoto, Japan, he continued his education at Keio University’s multidisciplinary X-Design program at the Graduate School of Media and Governance. Here he focused on prosthetic design for athletes in the biomechanical design laboratory. After graduation he lead a design research project at GRANMA Inc. to develop solar panel systems in developing countries. It was here that he realized the radical shift that digitization and urbanization were bringing about in the developing world and how many of these changes were due to intangible systemic factors. It was at this point that Yuki chose to pursue project design in order to help navigate these unseen complexities of modern urban life.

Yuki moved to New York in 2013 to pursue citizen journalism as an educational tool, and it was here that he encountered the power of exhibition and how it allows one to explore the unseen views of the world through experience. Upon returning to Japan he participated in several contemporary art projects including the Kyoto Machiya AIR an artist-in-residency program, Kansai Art Beat a regional art media organization and Kyotographie, the acclaimed international photography festival. It was here that he realized both the power and limitations of the transitory experience of exhibition. Many emerging artists choose to present their work as installation or performance, but the inherent difficulty of documenting their work and presenting it to global art markets motivated Yuki to design ART360. In February 2019, the ART360 team launched the platform for the Nishieda Foundation and plans to play an important role in the world of contemporary art in Asia.