Fuku Akino Exhibition

The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

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Fuku Akino (1908–2001) was born in Shizuoka Prefecture. At twenty-one, she moved to Kyoto, where she studied under Suishō Nishiyama, a nihonga (Japanese-style painting) artist, and submitted works to Kan-ten (government-sponsored exhibitions). In 1948, she left the Kan-ten and founded Sōzō-bijutsu (the present Sōga-kai) with fellow nihonga artists such as Shōkō Uemura and Toyoshirō Fukuda. She also taught at the Kyoto City College of Arts (the present Kyoto City University of Arts) from 1949 to 1974, and in 1999, her many contributions were officially recognized in the form of the Order of Culture.
The present exhibition, commemorating the centennial of Akino’s birth, is the first large-scale retrospective to be held in Kyoto since her death. Approximately 90 works representing the entire scope of her seven-decade artistic career—including the India series that began with her year-long residency at Visva-Bharati University as a visiting professor at age fifty-four—will be exhibited along with other materials such as drawings and original illustrations for picture books.

Lecture "Akino Fuku: The Artist and Her Works" April 12th (Sat) 13:30-15:00

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[Image: Fuku Akino (1983) "Prayer of the Earth" courtesy of The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto]