Maite Pinto

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.

Maite Pinto is a contemporary printmaker working in the mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock) tradition. Their work contributes to the living tradition of Japanese woodblock printing. Prices for contemporary mokuhanga prints range from $100 for smaller works to $1,500 for major compositions. Most prints sell in the $180–$600 range. The global mokuhanga community has been growing, with increasing exhibition opportunities and collector interest. Contemporary mokuhanga represents an affordable entry point for collectors.