Biography
Hisae Isogami is a Japanese mokuhanga artist who exhibited at the International Mokuhanga Conference juried international exhibition in Nara, Japan, in 2021. Her selection for the IMC exhibition connects her work to the broader community of contemporary practitioners of the traditional Japanese water-based woodblock printing technique.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
Frequently Asked Questions
Hisae Isogami is a Japanese mokuhanga artist who exhibited at the International Mokuhanga Conference juried international exhibition in Nara, Japan, in 2021. Her selection for the IMC exhibition connects her work to the broader community of contemporary practitioners of the traditional Japanese water-based woodblock printing technique.
Hisae Isogami'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.
Hisae Isogami is a contemporary printmaker working in the mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock) tradition. Their work contributes to the living tradition of Japanese woodblock printing. Prices for contemporary mokuhanga prints range from $100 for smaller works to $1,500 for major compositions. Most prints sell in the $180–$600 range. The global mokuhanga community has been growing, with increasing exhibition opportunities and collector interest. Contemporary mokuhanga represents an affordable entry point for collectors.