Biography
Jane Fulton Suri is an artist, designer, and printmaker based in the United States whose dual career bridges the worlds of design innovation and traditional mokuhanga printmaking. Originally trained in the United Kingdom, she built an internationally recognized career in design research and human-centered design before developing a dedicated printmaking practice.
In 2014, Suri apprenticed with the Tokyo printmaker Asaka Motoharu, immersing herself in the traditional techniques of Japanese woodblock printing. This apprenticeship marked a significant deepening of her engagement with mokuhanga, grounding her practice in the hands-on craft knowledge passed down through Japan's printing tradition.
Suri has been an active participant in the international mokuhanga community, with her prints featured in Mokublad, a publication of Mokuhanga Magic, and exhibited at the International Mokuhanga Conference juried exhibitions in Nara (2021) and in the Americas exhibition at the conference in Echizen (2024). Her design work is represented in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Her artistic practice in mokuhanga complements her broader career, which includes significant contributions to the field of design research and innovation methodology. This dual perspective brings an unusual attentiveness to process, observation, and human experience to her printmaking work.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇺🇸United States
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Subjects
- Landscapes
- Works Indexed
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Frequently Asked Questions
Jane Fulton Suri is an artist, designer, and printmaker based in the United States whose dual career bridges the worlds of design innovation and traditional mokuhanga printmaking. Originally trained in the United Kingdom, she built an internationally recognized career in design research and human-centered design before developing a dedicated printmaking practice.
Jane Fulton Suri'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.
Jane Fulton Suri's prints frequently feature landscapes.
