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Shigeki Kuroda...Artist
Shigeki Kuroda was born in 1953 in Yokohama in the Kanagawa Prefecture, which by then was already a large metropolis with over one million people and a modern outlook. After the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1942, little of the city's history remained in buildings. The artist grew up in the midst of a conflict between tradition and the western modernization and industrialization. Against this backdrop, Kuroda deals with the change of the Japanese cultural identity in his works.
Though Japanese art education at the time mostly dealt with traditional art, Shigeki Kuroda enjoyed a modern education in art. In 1977 he began studying painting at Tama University of Art in Tokyo and finished with a Masters degree in 1979. He very quickly became active in exhibitions and developed broad interests.
In 1984 he traveled to the United States with a prestigious educational grant. A year later, he extended his stay and participated in an exchange program with an art foundation.
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