1. Hiroshi Senju is a Japanese Nihonga painter known for his large scale waterfall paintings.
20 Facts About Hiroshi Senju
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Hiroshi Senju has one brother, composer Akira Senju, and one sister, violinist Mariko Senju.
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Hiroshi Senju completed the BFA, Tokyo University of the Arts in 1982.
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Hiroshi Senju completed the MFA program in Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts in 1984.
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Hiroshi Senju completed the doctoral course at Tokyo University of the Arts in 1987.
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Hiroshi Senju is the father of artificial intelligence entrepreneur Hikari Senju.
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One of Hiroshi Senju's waterfalls was the first painting by an Asian artist to be awarded an Honorable Mention at the Venice Biennale in 1995.
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In contrast to the norm of displaying such works in a dimly lit, tatami matted room, Hiroshi Senju prefers his paintings to be viewed under natural light.
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Hiroshi Senju was elected as a member of the Japan Art Academy in 2022.
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In 1995, at the 46th Venice Biennale celebrating its centennial year, Hiroshi Senju, who represented Japan, exhibited a huge waterfall mural in Japan Pavilion, measuring 3.4 meters high and 14 meters wide.
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Hiroshi Senju, watching the incident happened, immediately rushed for it and removed the coal tar with his bare hand.
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Hiroshi Senju had to go to emergency hospital with his left hand got burned.
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From 2004 to 2011, Hiroshi Senju created a series of large commissioned works for Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan.
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In 2007, Hiroshi Senju created a series of 20 fusuma paintings for the Shofuso Japanese House and Garden, in Philadelphia, PA.
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Hiroshi Senju named the largest murals, which serve as the centerpiece in the tokonoma alcove, Water Curtain, a play on the classic symbol of the Cold War, the Iron Curtain.
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In donating the new murals, Hiroshi Senju honored Shofuso in the ancient Japanese tradition of master painters offering their talents to the community.
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Hiroshi Senju participated in the Art House Project in Naoshima, Kagawa.
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In 2015, Hiroshi Senju exhibited large-scale fluorescent pigment waterfalls Ryujin I and Ryujin II in a pitch-dark space, and natural pigment waterfall Suijin under daylight at Frontiers Reimagined, a collateral event of the Venice Biennale curated and organized by Sundaram Tagore Foundation.
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In 2015, it was officially confirmed that Hiroshi Senju would create a series of fusuma paintings for the head temple of Kongobuji of Koyasan, located on Mount Koya, Wakayama, Japan.
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Hiroshi Senju's works are stored overseas, including in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, USA, Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA, The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, USA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, USA, University of California, Los Angeles, Royal Ontario Museum, ON, Canada, National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA.