Lecture by Hideki Kimura

Bates Olin Arts Center, 104
75 Russell Street
Lewiston, ME 04240
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Lecture by Hideki Kimura, professor, Kyoto City University, on Japanese Printmaking, Yesterday and Today.

Hideki Kimura is co-curator of Redefining the Multiple: Thirteen Japanese Printmakers.

Kimura studied oil painting and printmaking and Kyoto City University of Arts and completed independent research at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Fine Art. He is professor of printmaking at Kyoto City University of the Arts. Kimura has been active internationally as an artist and curator. He is the founder of the artists’ group MAXI GRAPHICA, and recently served as the president for the Committee of Art for Print Studies in Japan. Kimura’s work is in numerous public and private collections including the National Museum of Modern art in Kyoto, the Warsaw National Museum in Poland, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The British Museum and the Victoria and Albert in London.

Kimura is at Bates from September 25-28. This lecture and his campus visit is supported by the Bates Learning Associates Program.