BIO

Born and raised in Kyoto, where she studied Japanese art and history, Fumiyo Yoshikawa specializes in the Japanese brush painting methods sumi-e and nihonga. Since moving to San Francisco in 2004, her work has also incorporated elements of American art. Over the years she developed a unique style that is organic and spiritual, based on the philosophies of Zen, Shintoism and Taoism. She has exhibited widely at art museums and galleries in Japan since 1984, Guatemala in 2003, and in the United States since 2004.