User:DogsRNice/Izumi Kato (artist)

Izumi Kato (born c. 1969) is a Japanese artist who creates surreal wooden sculptures and paintings.

He graduated from the Musashino Art University in 1992.

Untitled 2004
Untitled 2004 is a wood and acrylic sculpture. It is a vaguely infant like figure with a bulbous head turned to the side and outstretched arms placed on an adjacent wall.

It is notable for the usage of a photograph of the sculpture to represent the entity "SCP-173" in the SCP Foundation universe. Kato gave permission to the SCP wiki to continue using the image for SCP-173 as long as it wasn’t used for any commercial purpose.

It has been exhibited at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art and Art Tower Mito.