Biography
Tamayo Oishi (born 1999, Tokyo, Japan) is a young Japanese contemporary printmaker based in Tokyo. She trained at Joshibi University of Art and Design, a leading Japanese women's art university, and continued through its graduate program.
Her 2023 silkscreen 'Everlasting Summer Garden in the Hotel's Backyard' (常夏の庭はホテルのbackyardで, 59 × 80 cm) was exhibited at the 68th CWAJ Print Show in 2025 as Print No. 120. The work exemplifies the tone of her early practice: a substantial horizontal silkscreen composition whose deliberately mixed Japanese-English title -- pairing 常夏 ('eternal summer') and 庭 ('garden') with the English loanword 'backyard' -- foregrounds a cosmopolitan, contemporary register. Its subject, a perpetually summery hotel garden seen from a back-of-house vantage, belongs to a contemporary urban-and-leisure vocabulary that contrasts with the seasonal-landscape tradition associated with many senior CWAJ printmakers.
The silkscreen medium, with its strong flat-colour areas and crisp edges, suits this contemporary urban subject matter and its cosmopolitan title. Oishi's appearance in the 68th CWAJ Print Show marks an early-career emergence within one of Japan's principal print showcases; beyond that catalogue entry, biographical detail and exhibition history are not currently surfaced through public-facing online channels.
Key Facts
- Active Period
- 1999
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Subjects
- SilkscreenLandscapes
- Works Indexed
- 1
Frequently Asked Questions
Tamayo Oishi (born 1999, Tokyo, Japan) is a young Japanese contemporary printmaker based in Tokyo. She trained at Joshibi University of Art and Design, a leading Japanese women's art university, and continued through its graduate program.
Tamayo Oishi was active born in 1999. They were associated with the Contemporary Mokuhanga movement.
Tamayo Oishi'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.
Tamayo Oishi's prints frequently feature silkscreen, landscapes.