Born in Okayama in 1947. Designer and Illustrator.
C.E.O of Don Design Research Insititute
His career began as an illustrator. He has since then been involvd in the production of a wide range of design works, such as graphic textile, interior objects, architecure, ships, and railway vehicles. Since 1988, he has taken up designing JR Kyushu trains and stations. He has won awards nationally and internationally. He has won “Brunel Award”, which is an international rail design award, four times in the past for designs of long-distance passenger trains including “Tsubame (Series 787),” “Sonic (Series 883),” and “Kamome (Series 815),” as well as short-distance train (Series 815). He has also been awarded for graphic and uniform designs. Recently, he has taken up engineering design for the Kyushu bullet train “Tsubame.” His recent publications include “I am the designer of ’Tsubame (written in Japanese) (Koudansha)” and “Design On Tour (written in Japanese) (Shougakkan).”
Japanese-style Painter, President of Kyoto University of Arts and Design
| 1958 | Born in Tokyo |
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| 1987 | Graduated with a doctoral program at Tokyo University of the Arts |
| 1995 | First Asian to be awarded Outstanding Performance Award in the Painting Division at the fourty-sixth Venice Biennale (Venice, Italy) |
| 1997 | Awarded Work of Excellence by the Agency of Cultural Affairs (purchased) Work purchased by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (housed at Embassy of Iikura, United Nations of Ambassador’s Residence in New York, Maison de la culture du Japon a Paris, and Embassy of Japan in Rome) |
| 2000 | Won a Michiaki Kawakita prize at the exhibition “The Eyes of the East and West- The Paintings of the Twenty-first Century” |
| 2002 | The first public viewing of fusuma painting at Shukou-in of Daitoku Temple Awarded the 13th Mochiki Okada grand prize at MOA Art Gallery |
| 2003 | Produced a wall painting 3 meters in height and 25 meters in length at Grand Hyatt Tokyo. Opened an exhibition “Fusuma Painting of Shukou-in, Daitoku Temple–National Treasure” at Tokyo National Museum |
| 2004 | Art production at Terminal 2, Haneda Airport |
| 2005 | Participated in the exhibition “Milano Salone- Lexus (L-finesse)” as art producer Inaugurated “Hiroshi Senjyu—The Complete 77 Works of Fusuma Painting at Shukou-in Daitoku Temple” at Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Participated in the stage direction of “World Intangible Cultural Treasure: Blossoming tradition of Noh and Kyogen” |
| 2006 | Exhibition in the sixth Kwangju Biennale (Kwangju, Korea). Participated in the Naoshima Standard 2 exhibition at Chichu Art Museum Hiroshi Senjyu Exhibition at Yamatane Art Museum |
| 2007 | Opened to the public fusuma painting “Matsukaze-Sou” in Philadelphia Currently based in New York, he presents his works of art worldwide. |
