Biography
Maite Pinto is a Spanish artist who participated in the MI-LAB (Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory) residency program in 2024 as part of the Advanced Program E in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. The Advanced Program at MI-LAB is designed for artists with prior mokuhanga experience who seek to deepen their practice, suggesting Pinto had established foundational skills in Japanese water-based woodblock printing before her Echizen residency. Her participation reflects the growing engagement of Spanish artists with mokuhanga as a contemporary art medium.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇪🇸Spain
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
Frequently Asked Questions
Maite Pinto is a Spanish artist who participated in the MI-LAB (Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory) residency program in 2024 as part of the Advanced Program E in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. The Advanced Program at MI-LAB is designed for artists with prior mokuhanga experience who seek to deepen their practice, suggesting Pinto had established foundational skills in Japanese water-based woodblock printing before her Echizen residency. Her participation reflects the growing engagement of Spanish artists with mokuhanga as a contemporary art medium.
Maite Pinto'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.