MODERN JAPANESE PRINT ARTISTS

HAMANISHI, Katsunori

Born in Hokaido, 1949.  Graduated from Tokai University, 1973.  Prizes include Valparaiso, International Exhibition, Chile, 1989; Exhibition of Small Graphic Forms, Poland, 1987; International Mezzotint Competition, US, 1984.  Collections can be found in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York Museum of Modern Art; Taipei Fine Arts Museum; Krakow National Museum; Osaka National Museum

HASEGAWA, Yuichi

Born in Aizu Wakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture in 1945.  Exhibitions include 1988 solo show, Alphaflor Galerie, Freigurg, Germany; 1987 solo show, Elegance Gallery, Fukushima; 1987, 41st Fukushima Art Festival.  Collections can be found in the Cincinnati Art Museum; Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts; Singapore National Museum.

IKEGAMI, Isao

Born in Tokyo, 1938.  Graduated from Musashino Art University, Tokyo in 1960.  Has exhibited in the following; 1990 group show, Retretti Art Centre, Finland; 1986 solo show, Gallery Tamura, Hiroshima; 1985 solo show, Gallery Off, Nagoya; Tsutaya Gallery, Kyoto; Flower Collection, Osaka.  Collections can be found in the Cincinnati Art Museum, Rockefeller Foundation, New York; Singapore National Museum.

IMAMURA, Yoshio

Born in Nagano Prefecture in 1948.  Prizes include 1989, JPA show, associate member special prize; 1989 Bharat Bhavan International Biennial, India, special prize; 1989 Miniature Print Biennial, New York.  Has exhibited in the following: 1993 solo show, Root Gallery, Tokyo and Taller Galeria, Barcelona; 1992 solo show, Silk Gallery Seoul and Portfolio Gallery, New Zealand.  Collections can be found in the Cincinnati Art Museum; Hamburg Museaum of Arts and Crafts; Singapore Art Museum.

KARHU, Clifton

Born in Duluth, Minnesota, USA 1927.  Studied at Minneapolis School of Art from 1950-52.  Has lived in Japan since 1955 and passed away on March 24, 2007.  Collections can be found in the Cincinnati Art Museum; East Asian Legal Studies Center; Harvard University; Kunst Museum, Salzburg; Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota; Museum of fine Arts, Boston.

KURODA, Shigeki

Born in Yokohama in 1952.  1977, B.A.; 1979, M.A., Tama University of Fine Arts, Tokyo.  Collections can be found in Tochigi Prefectural Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art; Art Institue of Chicago; Tama University of fine Arts Museum; Yokohama Museum of Art; Shanghai City Museum.

NAKAZAWA, Shinichi

Born in Tokyo in 1956.  Graduated from Rikkyo University, Tokyo in 1979.  Prizes include 1985 Prizewinning Print Artists Exhibition, Central Museum Gallery, Tokyo; 1984, 85 Promising Young ArtistsExhibition, Isetan Department Store, Tokyo.  Collections can be found in the Cincinnati Art Museum; Rockefeller Foundation New York; Bayerische Landesbank, Tokyo.

NISHIKAWA, Yoichiro

 Born in Saga in 1959.  Graduated with M.A. from Tama University of Fine Arts, Tokyo.  Collections can be found in the Cincinnati Art Museum; Rockefeller Foundation New York; Hamburg Museum of Arts and Craft; Singapore National Museum.

SHINODA, Toko

Born in Dairen, Manchuria in 1913.  Exhibited in 1992, retrospective, Gifu Museum; 1990 traveling show Art Forum, Singapore; Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong; Honolulu Art Gallery; 1989 solo show, Seibu Museum, Tokyo.  Collections are shown in the Brooklyn Museum New York; Guggenheim Museum New York,  Rockefeller Collection New York; Yale University Art Gallery New Haven; Art Institute of Chicago; Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art.

TAKAHASHI, Hiromitsu

Born in Tokyo in 1938.  Graduated from Nihon University. Tokyo in 1982.  Exhibited in 1991-93 group show of Japanese contemporary art traveling to Ireland, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Greece, Italy, and Brazil; 1991-93 CWAJ show;1989 solo show, Japan Art Center, Bellingham, Washington.  Collections are shown in the Cincinnati Museum of Art; Rockefeller Foundation New York; Hamburg Museum of Arts and Craft; Singapore National Museum.

TANAKA, Ryohei

Born in Takatsuki City, Osaka in 1933.  Exhibited in 1992 solo show traveling to Azuma Gallery, Seattle; Ren Brown Collection, Bodega Bay, California; Verne Collection, Cleveland.  Collections are shown in Fogg Museum, Harvard University; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; New York Metroploitan Museum of Art.

WAKO, Shuji

Born in Sendai in 1953.  Graduated from Zokei University in 1977.  Exhibited in 1991-92 group show, Galleria 25, Helsinki; 1990 special commission by Terrapak, Japan; 1984 to present, solo show, Tolman Collection.  Collections are shown in the British Museum, London; Cincinnati Art Museum; Rockefeller Foundation New York; Singapore National Museum.

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