Biography
Tomoko Ueno (born 1961 in Saitama Prefecture) is a Japanese lithographer based in Saitama. She is a member of the Japan Print Association (日本版画協会) and the CAF Nebula Association (CAFネビュラ協会), and her prints have been shown in the College Women's Association of Japan (CWAJ) Print Show, one of Tokyo's long-running annual exhibitions of contemporary Japanese prints.
Working in the planographic medium of lithography, Ueno favors landscape subjects connected to water and the natural environment. Her 2024 lithograph "The Road of Water" (湧水に行く道, 100 × 76 cm) was selected for the 68th CWAJ Print Show 2025 as print no. 185. A vertical composition depicting a path leading toward a freshwater spring, it is characteristic of her approach, carrying a painterly, brush-like quality into the lithographic surface.
Key Facts
- Active Period
- 1961
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Subjects
- Landscapes
- Works Indexed
- 1
Frequently Asked Questions
Tomoko Ueno (born 1961 in Saitama Prefecture) is a Japanese lithographer based in Saitama. She is a member of the Japan Print Association (日本版画協会) and the CAF Nebula Association (CAFネビュラ協会), and her prints have been shown in the College Women's Association of Japan (CWAJ) Print Show, one of Tokyo's long-running annual exhibitions of contemporary Japanese prints.
Tomoko Ueno was active born in 1961. They were associated with the Contemporary Mokuhanga movement.
Tomoko Ueno'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.
Tomoko Ueno's prints frequently feature landscapes.