Biography
Sho Naganuma (長沼翔, born 1998 in Nagano Prefecture) is a young Japanese printmaker based in Tokyo. He holds a Master's degree in Fine Arts from Nihon University Graduate School of Art Studies and works principally in intaglio (copperplate) printmaking.
In 2022 Naganuma received the Young Printmaker Award of the College Women's Association of Japan (CWAJ), which recognizes emerging printmakers in the association's annual contemporary print exhibition. He has described using the prize to install a printing press in his home studio so that he can work freely. Taking intaglio as his foundation, he has been drawn toward combining copperplate printing with collage and drawing-like elements in search of work that moves beyond the traditional boundaries of the medium, and he speaks of bringing new techniques and perspectives to his practice while making prints that 'quietly speak to the viewer.'
Key Facts
- Active Period
- 1998
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Works Indexed
- 3
Frequently Asked Questions
Sho Naganuma (長沼翔, born 1998 in Nagano Prefecture) is a young Japanese printmaker based in Tokyo. He holds a Master's degree in Fine Arts from Nihon University Graduate School of Art Studies and works principally in intaglio (copperplate) printmaking.
Sho Naganuma was active born in 1998. They were associated with the Contemporary Mokuhanga movement.
Sho Naganuma'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.
