Makoto Fujimura
Makoto Fujimura’s art is widely collected and displayed regularly in galleries and museums around the world. Currently residing in New York City, Fujimura was born in Boston in 1960 and was educated bi-culturally in both the U.S. and Japan. While completing his MFA degree from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1989, his thesis painting was purchased by the University and he was subsequently invited to study in the Japanese Painting Doctorate program—a first for an "outsider" to this prestigious traditional program.
Fujimura combines modern abstract expressionism with the traditional Japanese art of Nihonga. After 20 years as a successful artist in both Japan and the U.S., Fujimura has become a voice of bi-cultural authority on the nature and cultural assessment of beauty, both by creating it and exploring its forms. His work is represented by Dillon Gallery in New York City.
