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

On March 9, 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 2015. In the Fine Arts category, ceramic artist HAYASHI Kyōsuke for his exhibition ‘Hayashi Kyōsuke’ and artist MURAKAMI Takashi for his exhibition ‘Takashi Murakami: The 500 Arhats’ shared the prize. In the Development of Art category, artist HIBINO Katsuhiko was awarded for his exhibition ‘Roppongi Art Night 2015’. In the Criticism category, KAMEI Wakana was awarded for her monograph ‘Kataridasu emaki: Kokawadera engi emaki, Shigisan engi emaki, Haizumimonogatari emaki, ron’. In the Media Art category, KUBOTA Akihiro, Professor at Tama Art University, was awarded for his ARTSAT project. The three recipients of the Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists for the fiscal year 2015 were MINAGAWA Akira, fashion designer, for his exhibition ‘1 ∞ Minakakeru’ in the Fine Arts category; YAMAMOTO Satomi for her monograph ‘Kusōzu o yomu: Kuchiteyuku shitai no Bijutsushi’ in the Criticism category; and YAMAZAKI Mari, manga artist, for her manga ‘Steve Jobs’ in the Media Art category. (Japanese)