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Born in Japan and based in Nagoya, Shozo is an artist whose practice is rooted in traditional Japanese painting techniques while exploring the contemporary potential embedded within classical aesthetics.
Through his experience in reproducing nationally designated cultural properties, he developed a deep understanding of traditional materials such as mineral pigments, washi paper, and natural adhesives. Within these historical techniques, he discovered structural elements that resonate with contemporary art.
Rather than positioning digital and classical art as opposites, Shozo approaches them as parallel expressions of the present. Influenced by the expanding language of global digital art, he produces works that integrate Japanese visual structures into digital formats, while also incorporating digital sensibilities into traditional painting.
His practice moves fluidly between analog and digital realms, re-examining visual structure itself.
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Education
1961 Born in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
1980 Graduated from Seto Ceramic High School of Design, Aichi, Japan
1980 Joined Noritake Company Limited (formerly Nippon Toki)âšHand Painter
1993 Retired from Noritake Company Limited.
1993: Started working as a precious cultural property reproduction artist.
During this period, he started painting using Japanese painting techniques.
2005: Quit the job of cultural property reproduction.
Worked as a Japanese-style painter.
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UTSURA

UTSURA began with a question:What if the sense of “pop” was already embedded within Japanese visual perception?Through repetition and subtle shifts, the project uses the Kewpie figure as a sign to reveal underlying visual structures.Each series unfolds in chapters—Chapter One, Emergence, explores the formation and gradual transformation of structure itself.By sharing the creative process, UTSURA functions not merely as a collection of works, but as an evolving system—an ongoing structural experiment in seeing.
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