Biography
Paola Gonzalez is a Chilean mokuhanga artist whose collaborative print with fellow Chilean artist Javier Santander was selected for the juried exhibition at the 2024 International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC) in Echizen, Japan, where it was shown in the exhibition's Americas section. As a rare Latin American practitioner of traditional Japanese water-based woodblock printing, Gonzalez represents the geographic expansion of mokuhanga beyond its traditional strongholds in Japan, North America, Europe, and Oceania.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇨🇱Chile
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
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Paola Gonzalez is a Chilean mokuhanga artist whose collaborative print with fellow Chilean artist Javier Santander was selected for the juried exhibition at the 2024 International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC) in Echizen, Japan, where it was shown in the exhibition's Americas section. As a rare Latin American practitioner of traditional Japanese water-based woodblock printing, Gonzalez represents the geographic expansion of mokuhanga beyond its traditional strongholds in Japan, North America, Europe, and Oceania.
Paola Gonzalez'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.