Funasaka Yoshisuke 舩坂芳助
Born 1939, Gifu, Japan
• 1962 Graduated from Tama Art University, Tokyo Japan
• 1976 Studied in UK and U.S.A. on an Agency for Cultural Affairs Overseas Art Study Fellowship
He is now member of Japan Print Association, member of Chunyang Association and member of Japan Artists Union. He was an artist of the Japanese Ministry of Culture in the United Kingdom and the United States. He held many solo exhibitions and participate in numerous international printmaking exhibitions in Japan, the United States, Indonesia and other countries. He has demonstrated on printmaking in United States, Belgium, United Kingdom, Holland, Thailand, Indonesia etc
Major Awards
1973 Tokyo International Biennale Exhibition of Print Award
1970 3rd International Young Artists’ Exhibition (Tokyo)
Major Public Collections
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, Suwa City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan, Japan Agency of Cultural Affairs, The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, The British Museum, UK, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France, National Library of Paris, France, Cleveland Museum of Art, U.S.A., Brooklyn Museum of Art, U.S.A., Cincinnati Art Museum, U.S.A., Freer Art Museum & Sackler Gallery, Washington, U.S.A., The First National Bank of Chicago, U.S.A., Moscow, National Oriental Museum, Russia, Chiang Mai University, Thailand etc.