Biography
Arie Furumoto (古本 有里, born 1965) is a Japanese printmaker working principally in etching. Her intaglio prints — frequently worked in aquatint — take plants and gardens as their recurring subject, developed across working series in which a single botanical motif is explored through multiple plate states and variants. Titles such as 'Garden,' 'Leaves,' 'Green,' and 'Blooming,' carrying lettered and numbered suffixes, reflect this methodical, series-based approach.
Furumoto is a longstanding participant in the CWAJ Print Show, the annual juried exhibition of contemporary Japanese prints organized in Tokyo by the College Women's Association of Japan, where she has shown etchings over the course of many years — from botanical prints exhibited in the mid-2000s to her selection for the 68th CWAJ Print Show, held at Hillside Forum in Daikanyama in October 2025. That continued presence places her within the established cohort of mid-career Japanese intaglio printmakers circulating through the principal Tokyo-area juried exhibition channels. Her prints are also handled by Scriptum, a dealer in fine Japanese prints.
Key Facts
- Active Period
- 1965
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Works Indexed
- 1
Frequently Asked Questions
Arie Furumoto (古本 有里, born 1965) is a Japanese printmaker working principally in etching. Her intaglio prints — frequently worked in aquatint — take plants and gardens as their recurring subject, developed across working series in which a single botanical motif is explored through multiple plate states and variants. Titles such as 'Garden,' 'Leaves,' 'Green,' and 'Blooming,' carrying lettered and numbered suffixes, reflect this methodical, series-based approach.
Arie Furumoto was active born in 1965. They were associated with the Contemporary Mokuhanga movement.
Arie Furumoto'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.