Yoshishige Furukawa (1921-2008)

Yoshishige Furukawa was born in 1921 in Fukuoka, Japan, earning his BFA in painting at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (now Tokyo University of the Arts) in 1943. He moved to the United States in 1963, spending the next several decades living between his native Japan and New York.

Furukawa’s work was the subject of two major retrospectives at the Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art (1992 and 2015). His work is included in numerous important Japanese institutions, including the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, the Osaka National Museum of Art, the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art, the Fukuoka Art Museum, the Kitakyushu Museum of Art, the Saitama Museum of Modern Art, and the Saga Prefectural Art Museum.

Furukawa frequently exhibited in both the U. S. and Japan throughout his life, including a noteworthy show at the Albright-Knox Museum in Buffalo, NY in 1991. He is the recipient of several important grants, including two from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1990 and 1997).

Furukawa died in Kanagawa, Japan in 2008.

Source: Maus Contemporary