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George Joji Miyasaki

Also known as: George Joji Miyasaki; primary name: Miyasaki, George Joji
Details: individual; painter/draughtsman; printmaker; American (USA); Male
Life dates: 1935-2013
Biography: American printmaker and painter, born in Kalopa, Hawaii; studied commercial art at California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland from 1953 but changed to fine art and studied under Richard Diebenkorn and Nathan Oliveira; set up studio 1955; began making lithographs under Oliveira 1956, worked in colour; early work shown at Fouth International Biennial of Contemporary Color Lithography at the Cincinnati Art Museum, 1956; first solo exhibition at Gump's Gallery, San Francisco 1957; won a purchase prize at the Eleventh Print National Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum 1958 for 'Autumn' (1992-7-25-35); taught printmaking, painting and drawing from 1958 at the California School of Arts and Crafts; included in travelling exhibition American Prints Today 1959 and gained national recognition; awarded a Ford Foundation grant to work at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop 1961; major solo exhibition at Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles 1961; received a Guggenheim Fellowship 1962; won a Ford Foundation purchase prize at the San Francisco Museum of Art's Eighty-second Annual Exhibition; solo exhibitions at the University of California and at the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco 1963; taught briefly at Stanford University; travelled in Europe 1964, and influences of geometric imagery from ancient Etruscan frescoes and Greek vase painting appeared in works created at the Clot lithography studio, Paris; returned to USA and taught printmaking at University of California, Berkley; began to include figures in his work, with transfer images, stencils and spray effects; produced several editions of large lithographs from zinc plates with Harold Paris c.1965; exhibited widely and won several awards including the purchase prize at the Sixteenth Print National Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum 1968; turned toward more soft imagery and studied colour theory in the 1970s; visited Japan and began to experiment with handmade paper 1978; received grants from the National Endowment of the Arts 1980 and 1985.

3 related objects

print

Title: Autumn |
Museum number: 1992,0725.35 |
Producer name: BIOG38628 Print made by:George Joji Miyasaki |
Production date: 1957

print

Title: Landscape No.17 |
Museum number: 1992,0725.36 |
Producer name: BIOG38628 Print made by:George Joji Miyasaki |
Production date: 1958

print

Title: February |
Museum number: 2019,7013.1 |
Producer name: BIOG38628 Print made by:George Joji Miyasaki |
Production date: 1958

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