Biography
Koga Akira (古賀彰, born 1951) is a contemporary Japanese woodblock printmaker whose work is little documented outside Japan. His prints are typically produced in small editions and hand-signed, in keeping with the sōsaku-hanga ('creative print') tradition, in which the artist personally carries out the successive stages of designing, carving, and printing rather than dividing them among specialist workshop hands. Beyond these general characteristics, reliable independently sourced information about his training, exhibitions, and career is scarce.
Key Facts
- Active Period
- 1951
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Subjects
- LandscapesArchitecture
- Works Indexed
- 2
Frequently Asked Questions
Koga Akira (古賀彰, born 1951) is a contemporary Japanese woodblock printmaker whose work is little documented outside Japan. His prints are typically produced in small editions and hand-signed, in keeping with the sōsaku-hanga ('creative print') tradition, in which the artist personally carries out the successive stages of designing, carving, and printing rather than dividing them among specialist workshop hands. Beyond these general characteristics, reliable independently sourced information about his training, exhibitions, and career is scarce.
Koga Akira was active born in 1951. They were associated with the Contemporary Mokuhanga movement.
Koga Akira'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.
Koga Akira's prints frequently feature landscapes, architecture.
Original prints by Koga Akira can be found in collections including Art Institute of Chicago.
