Biography
Chika Kotaki (香焼 知佳, born 1998) is a Japanese woodcut printmaker among the youngest generation of artists working in the medium. Her woodcut 'Stream' (STREAM), made in 2024, is a nearly square sheet measuring 70 by 77 centimeters that was selected for the 68th CWAJ Print Show in 2025 — the long-running annual exhibition mounted in Tokyo by the College Women's Association of Japan, which has presented contemporary Japanese printmaking to an international audience for decades. Selection for the CWAJ show is an early credential for an emerging printmaker, placing Kotaki's work alongside that of established and rising figures across the contemporary Japanese print field.
Key Facts
- Active Period
- 1998
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Subjects
- Rivers & Lakes
- Works Indexed
- 1
Frequently Asked Questions
Chika Kotaki (香焼 知佳, born 1998) is a Japanese woodcut printmaker among the youngest generation of artists working in the medium. Her woodcut 'Stream' (STREAM), made in 2024, is a nearly square sheet measuring 70 by 77 centimeters that was selected for the 68th CWAJ Print Show in 2025 — the long-running annual exhibition mounted in Tokyo by the College Women's Association of Japan, which has presented contemporary Japanese printmaking to an international audience for decades. Selection for the CWAJ show is an early credential for an emerging printmaker, placing Kotaki's work alongside that of established and rising figures across the contemporary Japanese print field.
Chika Kotaki was active born in 1998. They were associated with the Contemporary Mokuhanga movement.
Chika Kotaki'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.
Chika Kotaki's prints frequently feature rivers & lakes.