Masataka KUROYANAGI
Masataka KUROYANAGI
Born 1961, Tokyo, Japan
Lives and works in Yokohama City, Kanagawa, Japan
“In my work, I try to express unconscious beauty by truly looking at such simple everyday things as cloth, paper, stone. It is in the process of reducing my art to the bare minimum that I hope to find true expression in that hidden unconscious beauty. This is my current goal.”
Biography
1979-1982 BA, Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Tokai University, Japan
2002 Presentation, Alberta University Print Centre, Edmonton, Canada
2003 President of the Jury, 7th International Art Triennial Majdanek, Lublin, Poland
2002-2004 Visiting Professor, Suan Dusit Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand
2005-2008 Lecturer, Yokoha Gakuen University, Japan
2006 Guest Lecturer, Thaksin University, Thailand
2008 International Art Symposium, World Art Delft, the Netherlands; Lecturer, Yokohama City Museum, Japan
2009 Lecturer, Yokohama National University, Japan
2011 Workshop, Agua Forte Printmakers Society, Lisbon, Portugal; Lecturer, Silpakorn University, International Art Symposium, Thailand
2012, 2010 Lecturer, Joan Miró Printmaking Workshop, Fondacio Miró Mallorca, Spain
2015 Guest Lecturer, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
2018 International Jury, European Masters Salon Painting & Award Mark Macken, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
Member Printsaurus International Print Exchange Association; SPA Shin Yokohama, Printmakers Association, Japan
Awards
2015 Prize, 4th International Print Exhibition Bangkok, Thailand
2014, 2002 Medal of Honor, 15th International Triennial of Small Graphic Forms, Łódź, Poland
2000 2nd Prize, 6th International Art Triennial Majdanek, Lublin, Poland; 2nd Prize, Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada
1999 2nd Prize, Premio Internazionale, Biella per l’Incisione, Biella, Italy; 2nd Prize, 5th International Biennial of Miniature Arts, Milanovac, Yugoslavia; Award, 2nd Bienal de Artes Plastica Art Nostre Alcoi, Alicante, Spain
1997 2nd Prize, Ministry of Culture, 5th International Art Triennial, Majdanek, Lublin, Poland; Award, Intergrafica ’97, Katowice, Poland; Prize, 3rd British Mini Print Exhibition, Bristol, UK
1996 Prize, 3rd Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Kochi, Japan; Prize, 25th Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
Invited artist Capirano University, Vancouver, Canada /2008/; British Columbia University, Vancouver, Canada; Thompson Rivers University, Vancouver, Canada; Suan Sunantha Rajabhat, Bangkok, Thailand /2006/; International Print Triennial, Krakow, Poland /2003/; Malaspina Printmakers Society, Vancouver, Canada /2002/; Rajabhat Institute Suan Dusit, Bangkok, Thailand /2001/.
Solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Japan, Russia, Thailand etc.
atelier-kuro@tmtv.ne.jp