Biography
Jie Yang is a contemporary mokuhanga artist whose print "Sour pain" (2019) was selected for Sumi-Fusion, the juried international exhibition presented in conjunction with the 2021 International Mokuhanga Conference in Nara, Japan. Mokuhanga — the water-based Japanese method of woodblock printing — has drawn an increasingly international community of practitioners, and juried exhibitions like the one in Nara gather printmakers working in the tradition from many countries.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇨🇳China
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
Frequently Asked Questions
Jie Yang is a contemporary mokuhanga artist whose print "Sour pain" (2019) was selected for Sumi-Fusion, the juried international exhibition presented in conjunction with the 2021 International Mokuhanga Conference in Nara, Japan. Mokuhanga — the water-based Japanese method of woodblock printing — has drawn an increasingly international community of practitioners, and juried exhibitions like the one in Nara gather printmakers working in the tradition from many countries.
Jie Yang'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.