Biography
Michiko Hamada is a Japanese mokuhanga artist and educator active in the international mokuhanga community. She is a co-author of the "MI-LAB Mokuhanga Handbook for Contemporary Artist," an educational resource that documents the techniques and philosophy of Japanese water-based woodblock printing as taught in the Basic Training Course of the Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory (MI-LAB).
Hamada received the Keiko Kadota Print Award at the 2017 International Mokuhanga Conference for her print SHK. Named after Keiko Kadota, the founder of the International Mokuhanga Conference and former director of the Nagasawa Art Park (NAP) mokuhanga training program (1997-2011) and its successor MI-LAB, the award recognizes outstanding prints selected in the conference's international juried exhibition.
She was also selected for the juried exhibition at the 2024 International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC) in Echizen, Japan, where her work was shown among the prints by Asia-based artists. Her work and educational contributions reflect a deep commitment to preserving and advancing the mokuhanga tradition while supporting its international dissemination.
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- Contemporary Mokuhanga
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Michiko Hamada is a Japanese mokuhanga artist and educator active in the international mokuhanga community. She is a co-author of the "MI-LAB Mokuhanga Handbook for Contemporary Artist," an educational resource that documents the techniques and philosophy of Japanese water-based woodblock printing as taught in the Basic Training Course of the Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory (MI-LAB).
Michiko Hamada'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.