[1] Born (as Sukenori Akiyama, 秋山 祐徳[2]) in 1935 in Tokyo, Akiyama studied engraving at Musashino Art School, the predecessor of Musashino Art University, and then worked as an industrial designer for an electrical company.
He started exhibiting his own tin engravings and other work from 1965, and in both 1975 and 1979 stood in elections for Governor of Tokyo, bringing pop art into the process.
[1] Exhibitions of his work have included "Akiyama Yūtokutaishi no sekai-ten" (秋山祐徳太子の世界展) in Ikeda 20-Seiki Bijutsukan (池田20世紀美術館, Itō, Shizuoka) in 1994.
[1] From 1992 until around 2009, Akiyama joined Genpei Akasegawa and Yutaka Takanashi in the informal group Raika Dōmei.
[3] Work by Akiyama is in the permanent collection of the Tokushima Modern Art Museum.