YASUYUKI SHIBATA
Adjunct Professor

"Blue/Orange," woodcut print on Japanese paper, 26" x 38", 2003
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Yasuyuki Shibata was born in Japan, and studied at Kyoto Seika University in Kyoto, where he studied papermaking and printmaking with Professor Akira Kurosaki. He trained in ukiyo-e woodcut with master printer Uchiyama-san, Keizo Sato and master woodcutter Osamu Hotta.

Shibata came to the U.S. to work as a printer for American Contemporary Artists in 1991, specializing in the traditional, late-17th century Japanese woodcut technique, ukiyo-e. Shibata also worked at Tyler Graphics in New York for ten years, where he collaborated with artists such as Frank Stella, Masami Teraoka, David Salle, Helen Frankenthaler and Donald Sultan. Since 2001, he has worked for Pace Editions Studio on projects with Chuck Close, Helen Frankenthaler and April Gornik.

Shibata's prints have been exhibited in the past five years in group exhibitions at the International Print Center in New York, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Connecticut, the Firehouse Art Gallery on Long Island and the Union College Art Gallery.

"I use both Western and Japanese woodcut techniques. I have been in this country long enough that both cultures influence my work."

Shibata has taught Relief Printmaking at the Cooper Union School of Art since 1999. He has also held ukiyo-e workshops at Montclair State University, Long Island University and Yale University Art Gallery.

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