Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize Recipients Announced

On March 8, the Agency for Cultural Affairs announced the recipients of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize for the fiscal year 2016. In the Fine Arts category, artist KŌNOIKE Tomoko for her exhibition ‘Tomoko Konoike: Primordial Violence Vol.2 A New Species of Bone’ and metal artist HASHIMOTO Masayuki for his live sculpting ‘Sunlight Penetrating Fruit’ shared the prize. In the Criticism category, art critic YAMANASHI Toshio was awarded for his monograph ‘Fūkei gakō: Sekai e no kōkan to shinkō’. In the Media Art category, manga artist AKIMOTO Osamu was awarded for his manga ‘KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops’. The three recipients of the Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists were architect TANE Tsuyoshi for his architectural design ‘the Estonian National Museum’ in the Fine Arts category; the founder of teamLab INOKO Toshiyuki for the exhibition ‘Drawing on the Water Surface Created by the Dance of Koi and People – Infinity’ in the Development of Art category; and artist MŌRI Yūko for her exhibition ‘Pleated Image’ in the Media Art category. (Japanese)