Biography
Susannah Hera is an American mokuhanga artist whose work was included in the Juried International Mokuhanga Exhibition at the Fifth International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC 2024) held in Echizen, Japan, where she was selected for the Americas regional exhibition. Hera is part of the active community of American artists working in mokuhanga, drawn to the traditional Japanese technique's water-based, non-toxic process and the distinctive aesthetic qualities of printing with natural pigments on washi paper.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇺🇸United States
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Works Indexed
- 1
Frequently Asked Questions
Susannah Hera is an American mokuhanga artist whose work was included in the Juried International Mokuhanga Exhibition at the Fifth International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC 2024) held in Echizen, Japan, where she was selected for the Americas regional exhibition. Hera is part of the active community of American artists working in mokuhanga, drawn to the traditional Japanese technique's water-based, non-toxic process and the distinctive aesthetic qualities of printing with natural pigments on washi paper.
Susannah Hera'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.