Waterfall ウォーターフォール 千住 博/センジュ ヒロシ

＜千住博　略歴＞
1958年　東京都生まれ
1987年　東京藝術大学大学院後期博士課程単位取得満期退学
1995年　第46回ヴェネツィアビエンナーレ（イタリア）にて名誉賞受賞
2005年　ミラノサローネ（イタリア）
2006年　光州ビエンナーレ（韓国）
2011年　成都ビエンナーレ（中国）
2010年2013年　瀬戸内芸術祭
2014年　オペラ「夕鶴」の舞台美術を担当
2015年　第56回ヴェネツィアビエンナーレに招待出品（イタリア）
2016年　平成28年度外務大臣表彰受賞、薬師寺「平成の至宝」選出され、同収蔵
2017年　第4回イサム・ノグチ賞受賞
2018年　優秀芸術賞受賞（フィラデルフィア日米協会）
日米特別功労賞受賞（ニューヨーク商工会議所）
2019年　「高野山金剛峯寺襖絵完成記念千住博展」巡回展（2018年～）
2020年　高野山金剛峯寺大主殿に作品奉納
2021年　「瀧図」（高野山金剛峯寺襖絵）で第77回恩賜賞、日本芸術院賞を受賞
現在　京都芸術大学大学院教授

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Japanese-born New York-based painter Hiroshi Senju is noted worldwide for his sublime waterfall and cliff images, which are often monumental in scale. He combines a minimalist visual language rooted in Abstract Expressionism with elements of traditional Japanese painting.

Hiroshi Senju was the first Asian artist to receive an Honorable Mention Award at the Venice Biennale (1995), and has participated in numerous exhibitions including The New Way of Tea, curated by Alexandra Munroe, at the Japan Society and the Asia Society in New York, 2002; Paintings on Fusuma at the Tokyo National Museum, 2003; and Frontiers Reimagined at the Venice Biennale, 2015. He was awarded the Foreign Minister’s Commendation from the Japanese government for contributions to art in 2017, and in the same year, he was honored with the Isamu Noguchi Award.

Public installations include seventy-seven murals at Juko-in, a sub-temple of Daitoku-ji, a Zen Buddhist temple in Japan, and monumental waterfalls at Tokyo International Airport (Haneda). The Benesse Art Site of Naoshima Island houses two large-scale installations.

The artist’s monumental cliff and waterfall paintings for the Kongobuji Temple at Koyasan―a UNESCO World Heritage Site and sacred Buddhist monument―traveled to museums throughout Japan before being installed in 2020.

Senju’s work is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; the Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan; the Yamatane Museum of Art, Tokyo; Tokyo University of the Arts; and the Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido. In 2009, Skira Editore published a monograph of his work titled Hiroshi Senju. The Hiroshi Senju Museum Karuizawa in Japan opened in 2011.