Taro Maruyama combines ready-made objects and wood carvings to make absurd, humorous sculptures, as well as ceramics. Maruyama completed his doctorate in sculpture at the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2021. Major exhibitions include "Fue to Chiheisen wa Sora no Kanata ni”, Higashi Kasai 1-11-6 Warehouse A (Tokyo, 2024); "Reversible Suspense/Zutto Ii Kanji no Omoide", TAKU SOMETANI GALLERY (Tokyo, 2021); "Yuuka Ishii and Taro Maruyama: ENCOUNTER", Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery (Tokyo, 2022); "Under Current", Powerlong Museum (Shanghai, 2021), and "TAION", Aoyama Spiral, (Tokyo, 2021), among others.