Tsuyoshi Suzuki, born in Tokyo in 1998, earned a B.A. in studio art from Eastern Illinois University in 2021, before moving to New York City to pursue a full-time art career. Exposed to various artistic methods during his university days, he developed a unique technique of rusting steel sheets to create drawings, which he has continued to explore to this day. His work, focused on “Drawing with Rust on Steel,” reflects his desire to experiment and push the boundaries of artistic mediums in order to achieve his goal of being a one-of-a-kind artist.

Whether you embrace or deny it: we age with every passing second. That's unconditional. His rust works make our histories in the object visible, which is fairly invisible in appearance. By putting rust into art, he wants to share the beauty that he sees in rust and make us face it from a perspective that we do not usually see. It is also an expression of the diversity of beauty, and the works depicted by rust the various values today.

His recent series of portraits express the relationship between us and our histories. Each color of rust you see in his portrait represents an element of our life. Even though he has been working with Rust for years, he still doesn't have full control of this medium. Sometimes he gets beautifully saturated orange rust by chance. The next day, he gets a messy textured runt that he does not intend to have. This unexpectedness of the medium suggests the unexpectedness of our lives. Just as every piece of history has meaning, so does every speck of rust visible on his metal canvases Not only our glorious, shiny past, but also our darkness in the past that we would not like to look back, our failures, breakups, and setbacks all of these events in our past shape us who we are today