Biography
Hayato Fujioka is a Japanese curator associated with MI-LAB (Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory) who has contributed to the international mokuhanga community through his involvement with MI-LAB and the International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC). At the 2017 International Mokuhanga Conference, held at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, he took part as a representative of MI-LAB in the conference's gallery walk-throughs of the 'Beauty of Mokuhanga' exhibition, alongside figures such as IMC vice-chair Ralph Kiggell and local committee chair Hiroki Morinoue.
Fujioka's involvement with MI-LAB and the IMC reflects the essential infrastructure roles that curators and organizers play in sustaining the international mokuhanga movement beyond the artists themselves.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
Frequently Asked Questions
Hayato Fujioka is a Japanese curator associated with MI-LAB (Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory) who has contributed to the international mokuhanga community through his involvement with MI-LAB and the International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC). At the 2017 International Mokuhanga Conference, held at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, he took part as a representative of MI-LAB in the conference's gallery walk-throughs of the 'Beauty of Mokuhanga' exhibition, alongside figures such as IMC vice-chair Ralph Kiggell and local committee chair Hiroki Morinoue.
Hayato Fujioka'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.