Masaru Takiguchi

Masaru Takiguchi (born 1941 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese-American artist and arts educator, based in Texas. He is best known for his sculpture, his work is often abstract and made of wood, stone or metal.

Takiguchi received a BA in 1964 and MA in 1966 from Kyoto City College of Fine Arts. In 1968 he immigrated to the United States and settled in Houston, Texas. He was invited to be a visiting artist at the University of Houston in 1969, 1970 and 1973.

Select exhibitions have included National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (1965), Longview Museum of Fine Art (1999), Galveston Arts Center (1995, 2006), Austin Museum of Art (2008) as well as others. Takiguchi outdoor sculpture is included in the following collections; Blaffer Art Museum with the works Orbit I and Orbit II, and Austin College with the work Quest.