| Kozo Nishino | |
| Birth Date: | 7 August 1951 |
| Birth Place: | Hyogo, Japan |
| Years Active: | 1984–present |
| Occupation: | Artist, sculptor |
Kozo Nishino (born 1951) is a Japanese sculptor and kinetic artist born in Hyogo Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Ceramics at the Kyoto City University of Arts in 1977.[1]
He has numerous large-scale public works throughout Japan. He was featured in the Echigo-Tsumari Art Field.[2]
His large scale public work titled, In the Wind, is a metallic sculpture of a saxophone. He originally created it in 1988 and the work was presented in Kobe. The work was recreated in 2003 in front of the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama.[3]
In 2013, he was commissioned and created a 30-meter-diameter titanium arc in the 4 World Trade Center building which faces the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City.[4] [5]
In 2018, Nishino created a series of kinetic public art works, including Breezing in Canberra and In the Stream, at the National Arboretum in Canberra, Australia.[6]