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

On March 12, 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 2014. In the Fine Arts category, SATŌ Tokihiro, photographer, artist as well as Professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts, (for his exhibition ‘Sato Tokihiro: Presence or Absence’) and NAKAMURA Kazumi, Professor at the Tama Art University, (for his exhibition ‘Nakamura Kazumi’) shared the prize. NOMURA Masato, Professor at the Gakushuin University, was awarded for his monograph ‘Fūshi gaka Guranbiru: Tekisuto to imēji no 19 seiki’ in the Criticism category. Artist TAKATANI Shirō was awarded for his solo exhibitions such as ‘Camera Lucida’ in the Media Arts category. The three recipients of the Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists for the fiscal year 2014 were architect SAITŌ Tadashi for his architectural design ‘Hanchiku House’ in the Fine Arts category; MAEDA Kyōji, Deputy Editor of the Yomiuri Shimbun, for his monograph ‘E no yō ni: Meiji bungaku to bijutsu’ in the Criticism category; and manga artist KISHIMOTO Masashi for his manga ‘NARUTO’ in the Media Arts category. (Japanese)