Yoshiaki Watanabe
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He graduated from the undergraduate program at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (now known as Tokyo University of the Arts) in 1980 with a degree in oil painting, and completed a graduate program in mural work in 1982. From 1985 to 1989 he lived and worked in Germany at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
on a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service) grant.
He returned to Japan in 1989 and began working at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music as an assistant, eventually matriculating to a full professorship. In 1999 he was one of the founding professors of the University's Inter-Media Arts program. He was also one of the main organisers of the Toride Art Project, a community arts project based in Toride City in Ibaraki
, Japan
. More recently he had done extensive work founding the Ino Artists Village.
As an artist, Watanabe had exhibited extensively around the world, completing exhibitions in Turkey and Germany shortly before his death.
He died from sudden heart failure on November 4, 2009.
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, formerly Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, is the Arts Academy of the city of Düsseldorf. It is well known for having produced many famous artists, such as Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Thomas Demand, and Andreas Gursky...
on a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service) grant.
He returned to Japan in 1989 and began working at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music as an assistant, eventually matriculating to a full professorship. In 1999 he was one of the founding professors of the University's Inter-Media Arts program. He was also one of the main organisers of the Toride Art Project, a community arts project based in Toride City in Ibaraki
Ibaraki Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan, located in the Kantō region on the main island of Honshu. The capital is Mito.-History:Ibaraki Prefecture was previously known as Hitachi Province...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. More recently he had done extensive work founding the Ino Artists Village.
As an artist, Watanabe had exhibited extensively around the world, completing exhibitions in Turkey and Germany shortly before his death.
He died from sudden heart failure on November 4, 2009.