Biography
Terumi Oishi (大石照美, born 1988, Tokyo) is a Japanese contemporary printmaker working primarily in etching and based in Tokyo. She completed graduate studies at the Joshibi University of Art and Design (女子美術大学), Japan's principal women's art university, and is a member of the Japanese Print Association (Nihon Hanga Kyōkai / 日本版画協会).
Her recent work was shown at the 68th CWAJ Print Show in 2025, represented by the large-format horizontal etching 'border 202501' (2025, 59 × 87 cm). The 'border' title, carried across a year-and-number suffix, points to an ongoing project organised around boundary, edge, or interface imagery, and the wide horizontal format gives the etched line room to run across the sheet.
Etching — the medium to which Oishi is committed — produces its line by biting a drawing into a ground-resisted copper plate with acid, an intaglio discipline long taught within Joshibi's printmaking programme. Her membership in the Japanese Print Association, a major national body for printmakers, is sustained through participation in its exhibitions and places her within the working institutional print scene in Japan. Her selection for the CWAJ Print Show — a long-running annual juried showcase of contemporary Japanese prints — confirms her continuing activity among the etchers of the current Tokyo print scene.
Beyond the CWAJ catalogue entry and her association listing, a fuller biography and exhibition history are not currently surfaced through public online channels. She should not be confused with Tamayo Oishi (大石珠世), a separate printmaker of the same surname who also exhibits with CWAJ.
Key Facts
- Active Period
- 1988
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Subjects
- Abstract
- Works Indexed
- 1
Frequently Asked Questions
Terumi Oishi (大石照美, born 1988, Tokyo) is a Japanese contemporary printmaker working primarily in etching and based in Tokyo. She completed graduate studies at the Joshibi University of Art and Design (女子美術大学), Japan's principal women's art university, and is a member of the Japanese Print Association (Nihon Hanga Kyōkai / 日本版画協会).
Terumi Oishi was active born in 1988. They were associated with the Contemporary Mokuhanga movement.
Terumi 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.
Terumi Oishi's prints frequently feature abstract.