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Hiroshi SHIMURA  -  born 1949      

Hiroshi Shimura

Hiroshi Shimura born 1949

Hiroshi SHIMURA is a print-making artist living in Cambridge. Born in Tokyo in 1949, educated at Tokyo University of Education and gain M.A.in art. SHIMURA came to England in 1975, and joined printing courses at Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology. Since 1978, SHIMURA has been a freelance artist,and shown his screen prints through a number of one-man exhibitions in U.K.and Japan, as well as group exhibitions including The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in London, and CWAJ Print Show in Tokyo. (from the artist's home page)
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Literature sources used for artist biographies:

• Merritt, Helen and Yamada, Nanako, "Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints 1900-1975", University of Hawaii Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8248-1732-X
• Lane, Richard, "Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print", Fribourg, 1978, ISBN 0-914427-54-7
• Laurance, P.Roberts, "A Dictionary of Japanese Artists", John Weatherhill Inc., New York, 1976
• Frances Blakemore "Who is Who in Modern Japanese Prints", John Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, 1975. ISBN 0-8348-0101-9
• Annual CWAJ catalogs