Biography
Kaoru Morita is a Japanese mokuhanga artist who received the Washi Arts Award at the Fourth International Mokuhanga Conference, held in Nara in 2021, recognizing excellence in the use of traditional Japanese paper (washi) within contemporary mokuhanga practice. Morita's work was subsequently selected for the 2024 Juried International Mokuhanga Exhibition, "Inheritance & Innovation: Mokuhanga & Washi," shown in the Asia section of the International Mokuhanga Conference in Echizen, demonstrating sustained engagement with the international mokuhanga community.
The Washi Arts Award recognizes artists whose work demonstrates a particular sensitivity to the qualities of handmade Japanese paper as an integral element of their mokuhanga practice, rather than treating it merely as a printing surface. Morita's receipt of this award reflects an understanding of the material traditions of mokuhanga that extends beyond technique to encompass the paper itself.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
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Kaoru Morita is a Japanese mokuhanga artist who received the Washi Arts Award at the Fourth International Mokuhanga Conference, held in Nara in 2021, recognizing excellence in the use of traditional Japanese paper (washi) within contemporary mokuhanga practice. Morita's work was subsequently selected for the 2024 Juried International Mokuhanga Exhibition, "Inheritance & Innovation: Mokuhanga & Washi," shown in the Asia section of the International Mokuhanga Conference in Echizen, demonstrating sustained engagement with the international mokuhanga community.
Kaoru Morita'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.