Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam

Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam is one of the world’s foremost textile artists from Japan. She specialises in large-scale, interactive textile installations that feature not only imaginative and vibrant compositions of colours and shapes but also inspiring spaces to play.

Born in 1940, Horiuchi MacAdam attended Tokyo Metropolitan Hibiya High School, which is renowned throughout Japan for its exceptional standard of education. After completing her studies in fine arts at Tama Art University in Tokyo, she obtained a master’s degree at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. The beginning of her career coincided with the rise of textile art as a highly dynamic field within fine arts. As a representative of this new movement in the 1970s, she now counts among the Japanese artists whose work has had a lasting influence on this art form. Together with her partner Charles MacAdam, Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam designs and produces her site-specific works in her studio in rural Nova Scotia, Canada. Her immersive artworks can be admired around the world, including in Hakone, Japan, San Diego, USA, Rome, Italy – and now also in St. Pölten, Austria, at the KinderKunstLabor, where her latest work Toshi’s Gift おくリもの (2024) is located.