Born in Toyama Japan in
1970 Zigen entered Art School at eighteen where he studied painting
and illustration. As a freelance illustrator he was commissioned to
produce artwork for advertising campaigns as well as work for magazines
in Tokyo. In 1999 he started seriously to study the original brush
method thereby inheriting the traditional art of Japan. In 2000 he
started to exhibit work in the USA and now lives and works in New York
State.
“ Sentences are traditional fine arts in Japan which Japanese
people have inherited as public property. I believe that the most important
thing for me is to focus on how to create these sentences into a new
world’s public property through combining and experimenting without
being influenced by any drawing techniques or fashion.”
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