Biography
Fuki Hamada (濱田富貴, born 1972 in Fukuoka) is a contemporary Japanese printmaker known for etching and aquatint, and one of the artists represented by the Tolman Collection in Tokyo, one of the world's foremost publishers of contemporary Japanese graphic art. She graduated from Musashino Art University with a major in oil painting in 1998 and completed printmaking studies at the university's Graduate School of Art and Design in 2000.
Hamada works primarily in intaglio, using etching and aquatint to build subtle tonal atmospheres, with subjects that have included crystalline forms and the ice and glacial landscapes of the far north. In 2007 she won the Grand Prize at the Aomori International Print Triennial, and her work has been shown internationally, including at the Cracow International Printmaking Triennial and in solo exhibitions in Japan, Canada, and Finland.
Her prints are held in numerous public collections in Japan and abroad, among them the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, the Umetaro Azechi Memorial Museum of Art, and the Aomori Contemporary Art Centre in Japan; the University of Alberta and Capilano University in Canada; the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art in the United States; the Jyväskylä Art Museum in Finland; and the Artica Svalbard and Queen Sonja collections in Norway.
Hamada's work sits within the broader tradition of contemporary Japanese art on paper that the Tolman Collection has championed since Norman and Mary Tolman founded the gallery in 1972. The gallery's commitment to introducing Japanese artists to an international audience has given visibility to many printmakers, painters, and mixed-media artists whose work might otherwise remain known only within Japan.
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Fuki Hamada (濱田富貴, born 1972 in Fukuoka) is a contemporary Japanese printmaker known for etching and aquatint, and one of the artists represented by the Tolman Collection in Tokyo, one of the world's foremost publishers of contemporary Japanese graphic art. She graduated from Musashino Art University with a major in oil painting in 1998 and completed printmaking studies at the university's Graduate School of Art and Design in 2000.
Fuki Hamada's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.
Fuki Hamada's prints frequently feature etching, snow scenes, landscapes, abstract, theater.
