Ryuzo Nishida MFA, BFA

Ryuzo Nishida moved to New Zealand in 1997 and completed his BFA at Whitecliffe in 2004. He completed his MFA at Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University, in 2007. He has exhibited widely through local and international exhibitions over the past eight years. He received first place in the Adam Portraiture Award in 2004 and as part of the prize was commissioned to do the portrait of the speaker of the house which is now in the New Zealand parliament gallery collection. His works have been placed as finalists of major national art awards; among them the Bold Horizon National Contemporary Art Award, the Trust Waikato Contemporary Art Award, the Walker and Hall Art Award and the Wallace Art Awards. He has been lecturing in the Year one and Foundation courses at Whitecliffe since 2009. He teaches in the core expressive and design programmes.