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 professional printer Asaka Motoharu in Tokyo, immersing herself in the traditional techniques of Japanese woodblock printing. This apprenticeship marked a significant deepening of her artistic engagement with mokuhanga, grounding her practice in the hands-on craft knowledge passed down through Japan's printing tradition.
Suri has been an active contributor to the international mokuhanga community, writing for Mokublad, the publication of Mokuhanga Magic, and exhibiting at the International Mokuhanga Conference juried exhibitions in Nara (2021) and at the Americas exhibition in Echizen (2024). Her work appears 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.
Jane Fulton Suri 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.
