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Akira Itō (painter)
Akira Itō (伊藤 彬, Itō Akira, born 1940, in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese post-war and contemporary Nihonga painter.[1] Itō graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Japanese Painting in 1963. His work has been noted since graduation and he has become a member of important art groups (the Japanese Painting Department of the New Production Association, the Creative Society) in Japan of that time.[2][3][4] The Nerima Art Museum[5] wrote:
Itō creates monochrome paintings using sumi and charcoal, and "says that he was influenced by the French painter Odilon Redon, especially the beauty of black in his prints".[7][8] A list of Itō's awards includes the First prize at the 6th Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition in Ginhodo Gallery (1965), the 2nd Kanagawa Prefectural Art Exhibition Prefectural Assembly Chairman's Award (1967), the New Writer Award at the 34th New Production Association Exhibition (1970), the 6th Kanagawa Art Exhibition Grand Prize, 3rd Yamatane Museum of Art Award Exhibition (1975) and others[9][10] Works by Itō have been included in a number of public collections including the Terada Collection of the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery[11] in Tokyo Opera City Tower, and those of the Yokohama Museum of Art,[12][13] the Nerima Art Museum,[citation needed] the Hiratsuka Museum of Art,[citation needed] the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama,[14] and the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Modern Art.[citation needed] In 1998, Akira Itoh was appointed as a mentor to a Japanese government postgraduate scholarship.[15] References
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