Biography
Svetlana Swinimier is a Canadian mokuhanga artist who has been an active participant in the international mokuhanga community. Her work was included in the Juried International Mokuhanga Exhibition at both the 2021 International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC 2021) in Nara, Japan, and the Fifth International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC 2024) in Echizen, Japan, where she was selected for the Americas regional exhibition.
Swinimier's repeated selection for the IMC juried exhibitions demonstrates sustained engagement with the mokuhanga medium and recognition within the international community of water-based woodblock printing practitioners. She is part of the growing community of Canadian artists who have embraced mokuhanga as a printmaking practice.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇨🇦Canada
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
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Svetlana Swinimier is a Canadian mokuhanga artist who has been an active participant in the international mokuhanga community. Her work was included in the Juried International Mokuhanga Exhibition at both the 2021 International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC 2021) in Nara, Japan, and the Fifth International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC 2024) in Echizen, Japan, where she was selected for the Americas regional exhibition.
Svetlana Swinimer'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.
Svetlana Swinimier is a contemporary printmaker working in the mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock) tradition. Their work contributes to the living tradition of Japanese woodblock printing. Prices for contemporary mokuhanga prints range from $100 for smaller works to $1,500 for major compositions. Most prints sell in the $180–$600 range. The global mokuhanga community has been growing, with increasing exhibition opportunities and collector interest. Contemporary mokuhanga represents an affordable entry point for collectors.