A LITTLE ABOUT ME
Toby's family immigrated to New York from Scotland, Italy, Norway and Ireland and settled in San Francisco, early 1900's. He was born and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles. Toby gained his inspiration from his grandfather Patrick Raymond Fifield who worked as a Commercial Artist in Gold Leaf & Screen-printing signage painter & Scenic Painter for Lamp Lighters Theatre in San Francisco, California, and a Great Uncle Brother Alfred Brousseau who was a Monk at the Christian Brothers Winery in Napa California who taught Mathematics at Saint Mary's and has a permanent exhibition of Botanicals in B/W Photography at Stanford University. Toby holds a Bachelor's of Fine Art from the California College of the Arts and a Masters in Education from the University of California Santa Cruz, obtained in South Korea during a 365 hour teaching practicum residency at the National University of Art Education.
ABOUT MY PROCESS
I have lived and worked as a teaching Artist for twenty-years throughout Asia collecting rubbish and other found materials, mostly indigenous materials from each culture I have visited; transforming relief printmaking works from disposable waste, creating modular sculptural forms that I continue to experiment with. My work is a personal documentation; with a minimalistic composition focusing on relationships of individual disconnection of disposable waste contrasted against bold bright bold colors. This methodology in creating a modular wall sculpture represent time as a temporary documentation of our existence in an ever-growing disposable society that is waiting for change. I have adopted a minimalist artistic practice in my work, being subtractive; abstracting the objects that I find into relief mono-prints adding textures, creating modular assemblage installations that I continue to explore into Olfactory Artwork.
Representation
I create engaging art that evokes both the emotional and social from viewers. My new work cultivates a sense of interdependence, promoting social interaction among strangers by increasing viewers’ curiosity in innovative sculptural forms. My artworks have been on public view in Major Art Museums in Asia, International Children’s Museums, Art Galleries, Art Universities and Exposition 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, India and Thailand. My professional development experience as a designer in industrial design influenced my skills to advance in teaching fellowships and artist-in-residence programs in Korea, India, Japan, and Thailand. Returned to the U.S. from Asia in 2019 as a re-emerging artist. Please direct all inquiries through the contact form on the home page >here<.
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ARTIST’S CURRICULUM VITAE
Originally from San Francisco, California
EDUCATION:
2004-2005 MA Postgraduate in Education, University of California Santa Cruz Ext. UCSC & GSNU National Univ of Art Education, Jinju, Korea
1990-1995 B.F.A. Bachelor of Fine Arts; Painting & Sculpture /Industrial Design, California College of the Arts, California, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2022-2023 'Liberty Chair' Art in Embassies (AIE), US Department of State online program
2022 'Textures & Patterns' Aug 5-28 Online Group Exhibition as Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, California
2021-2022 'Visual Medicine' Arts and Accessibility Project Grant. Supported by CAC California Arts Council, & NADC, UCLA
2020 'Creativity in Place' COVID-19 Artist Residency (Crisis Residency) founded by artist Kate Hooray Osmond
2020 Mono Relief Assemblages Megalo Print Studio International-Relief-Online-Exhibition, Australia
2016-2017 Gold and Silver sizing ‘Halo’ Series Bracelets, Chiang Mai Design Week
2013-2014 ‘Tranquility’ Spaghetti Rattan Sculptural Forms, color dyed in pigment. NeNa Art Space, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2011 Collage & Montage exhibit “Rubbish” Artist in Residence, Artmosophere, Bangaluru, India
2009 Reflections; “Departures”. silkscreen on paper & wood. Myongji University, Seoul, Korea
2006 Animal Silhouettes; Series. Ink on handmade paper. Traveling art exhibit. Children's Museum of Art, Japan
2005 'Food for Thought” Art Collage on wood. Group Show at the Chosun-ilbo Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
1994 “Absolute Dimension” Anaglyphic Painting: Acrylic on canvas Open Studios’ San Francisco, CA
1993 Anaglyphic Paintings: Acrylic on canvas Gallery; ‘Whatever’ Hayes Valley, San Francisco, CA
1992 Anaglyphic Paintings: Acrylic on canvas ‘Open Studios’ San Francisco, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2018-2019 Exhibition Titled：Proximity, New works from rubbish, Mono-print Sculptures, Paper Gallery, Xian, China
2008 Public Art Exhibit, Human scale figures in Papier Mach'e. Seoul Metro Subway, Korea
2006 Artist exhibitor, Tokyo Big Site exhibition center, Tokyo, Japan exhibited sculptural paper lighting fixtures
1990-1994 Anaglyphic Paintings: Acrylic on canvas CCAC, Oakland Campus, California
COLLECTIONS:
2013-2014 ‘Tranquility’ Spaghetti Rattan Sculptural Forms, color dyed in pigment. NeNa Art Space, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2011 Collage & Montage exhibit “Rubbish” Artist in Residence, Artmosophere, Bangaluru, India
2006 Animal Silhouettes; Series. Ink on handmade paper. On permanent exhibition. Children's Museum of Art, Japan
ART RESIDENCIES:
2020 Artist in Residence Sakura Arts Collective - Honolulu, Hawaii 2020
2020 COVID-19 ARTIST RESIDENCY PROJECT, Creativity In-Place. founded by artist Kate Hooray Osmond
2013 - 2014 MonFai Cultural Centre at NeNa Contemporary Art Space, MaeRim, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2010 - 2012 Artmosophere, Bangaluru, India
TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS:
2008 - 2009 Myongji University, Seoul, South Korea
2002 - 2004 Inha University, Incheon, South Korea
2005 UCSC & GSNU Gyeongsan National University of Art education, Jinju, South Korea
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS:
2018 Art Education, Dipont Education, Xian China
2016 'The Five Senses' A Branding Workshop, KX KMUTT / SoA+D School of Architecture & Design, Bangkok Thailand
COMMISSIONS:
2022 Theatre Set Stage Props - Large Scale Book Binds, University of Hawaii, Kennedy Theatre, Manoa, Hawaii
2021 Interior Mural, Rodger Dunn Golf, Waikiki-Honolulu, Hawaii
2021 Lauhala Hawaiian Weave Mural - Waikiki, Hawaii
2022 Hand Painted Signage, Sakura Arts Collective, Honolulu, Hawaii
2017 Silver & Gold Leaf Sizing, 'Halo' Series, Jacob Jensen Design, Chiang Mai Design Week, Thailand
2008 Reflections; “Departures”. silkscreen on paper. Seoul, Korea
1998 “Digitoy” during ICONS of Meaning. (Museum Store) SFMoMA Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
COMPETITIONS:
2020 Paper Stencil, Montenegro Design Competition, Italy
2012 Timepiece design for Z Laboratories Ltd, / ZerOne Brand, Hong Kong, China
2006 “Tobiko Lamp”; Bamboo and Washi Paper - MUJI, Tokyo, Japan
1994 “Absolute Dimension” Anaglyphic Painting: Acrylic on canvas, Absolute Vodka, N.Y.
GRANTS AND AWARDS:
2022 Grant Recipient California Relief Fund for Artists and Cultural Practitioners YBCA Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the California Arts Council
2021 Artists’ Fellowship Emergency Grant
2020 Arts and Accessibility Project Grant Recipient. Supported by CAC California Arts Council, & NADC, UCLA
2020 Safety Net Fund, Artists Relief Grant Recipient 2020, Sponsored from the California Intersection for the Arts (The Intersection)
2020 San Francisco Arts & Artists Relief Grant Recipient 2020, Awarded by CCI, SFAC, & GFTA
2020 Artist Relief Tree COVID-19 Emergency Grant Recepient 2020
2019 CERF+ Craft Emergency Relief Fund Grant Recipient 2019
2005 Dean's Award for integrating the arts in teaching language. National University of Art education, Jinju, South Korea
1994 All College Honors Award for excellence. California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC)
1990-1994 Academic Scholarship. & Pell Grant at The California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC)