Tomoaki Suzuki

His practice specialises in creating urban portraits, carved into lime wood on a miniature scale and then painted.^[7]  He often searches his local neighbourhoods for young people dressed distinctively to use as models.^[8][9] His work engages with the changing face of fashion and youth culture, investigating the methods people use to establish their individuality.^[10] 

In 2012 Suzuki's sculpture Carson was exhibited on the High Line in New York.^[11][12] The artist has been exhibited internationally at major institutions, such as the Art Institute of Chicago,^[1] National Gallery of Victoria,^[8] the Barbican,^[13] and at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.^[14] A selection of sculptures from the artist's exhibition at Corvi-Mora was included in the 2017 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.^[15][16]