CusArtisttom Category: Japanese

Kyu-Baik Hwang (b1932)

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Kyu-Baik Hwang, painter and printmaker, was born in South Korea in 1932. Between 1950 and 1954, he served in the military during the Korean War, and after this he began to paint, becoming a member of the artist group Shin Jo Kyung and Shin Sang from 1954 to 1967. By 1968 he was a well-established… Read more »

Fumio Fujita (b1963)

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FUMIO FUJITA was born in Japan in 1933 and studied at the Musashino College of Fine Arts and began creating woodblock prints in 1963. He has always tried to maintain a type of minimalist style within the landscape genre, has been very successful and is one of the few present day artists to have been contracted… Read more »

Tomoe Yokoi (b1942)

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Born in Nagoya, Japan, in 1942, Yokoi studied art in Tokyo where she was taught traditional compositions of the realistic everyday images of fruits, musical instruments, and flowers. She later moved to Paris in 1964 to study under the great master of intaglio printing, Stanley Hayter at Atelier 17. By the time Yokoi moved to… Read more »

Shoichi Hasegawa (b1929)

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Painter and printmaker born in Yazu, Japan in 1929. After completing studies in drawing and painting at the Kokuga Institute in Kyoto he had his first solo show in 1957.  In 1961 he moved to Paris and began working at Atelier 17.  Hasegawa’s work is in many important museum collections including the Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, Museum… Read more »

Clifton Karhu (1927-2007)

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An American of Finnish descent, Karhu settled in Japan in 1955 as a missionary and teacher. Having previously studied art in the USA, he continued to paint using his style of bright colours and bold black lines. He was taught the art of woodblock printing by Tetsuo Yamada, a technique which suited his style of… Read more »