Born in Otsu, Shiga, Japan, and lives in Tokyo. Azuchi is a contemporary artist who covers a wide range of genres, including sculpture, woodblock print, photography, performance, and installation. As a high school student, he was greatly influenced by the writings of Marcel Duchamp, and in 1965 he presented Kusachi, in a group of artists who called themselves “Happening.” In 1967, he took part in a happning group called Play. After moving to Tokyo, Azuchi created experimental visual works that focused on the medium of film itself, and at the Intermedia Art Festival in 1969, presented Cinematic Illumination (recreated at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in 2017). Since 1990, Azuchi has been actively creating new works, chiefly in Europe.