SUDA KOKUTA

• Kokuta Suda, Japanese Western-style painter. He has been active in the Bunten and Nitten exhibitions, as well as the Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Art and the International Exhibition of Japanese Art. He started out as a figurative painter, winning many special prizes at government exhibitions, but after 1949, he moved on to abstract paintings. His paintings are characterized by a strong and unrestrained touch, and have been exhibited at the Japan International Art Exhibition (1955-1966), the Sao Paulo Biennial (1957), the Houston Art Exhibition (1959), the Premio Lissone (1960), the Pittsburgh Carnegie Exhibition (1961), and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh (1961). His work has been exhibited in international exhibitions such as (Omitted) Major Collections: Museum of Modern Art, Saitama; Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City; Iida City Museum of Art; Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art; Sakima Art Museum.