Biography
Ikuhiro Kugo (久郷育裕, born 1977) is a contemporary Japanese woodcut printmaker. His practice centers on an ongoing, numbered series titled "below ground," worked in the traditional Japanese hand-cut woodcut technique.
Kugo's prints have been exhibited through the College Women's Association of Japan (CWAJ) Print Show, one of the most prominent annual showcases for contemporary Japanese prints. Among the works shown there is "below ground – 2-4," a woodcut measuring 72 × 58 cm in an edition of thirty. Detailed public documentation of his training, affiliations, and fuller exhibition history is currently limited.
Key Facts
- Active Period
- 1977
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Subjects
- Abstract
- Works Indexed
- 1
Frequently Asked Questions
Ikuhiro Kugo (久郷育裕, born 1977) is a contemporary Japanese woodcut printmaker. His practice centers on an ongoing, numbered series titled "below ground," worked in the traditional Japanese hand-cut woodcut technique.
Ikuhiro Kugo was active born in 1977. They were associated with the Contemporary Mokuhanga movement.
Ikuhiro Kugo'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.
Ikuhiro Kugo's prints frequently feature abstract.