Kazuo Nakamura was a Japanese-Canadian painter and sculptor was born on Vancouver October 13,1926; died Toronto April 9,2002 and and a founding member of the Toronto-based Painters Eleven group in the 1950s.
11 Facts About Kazuo Nakamura
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Kazuo Nakamura's painting is orderly and restrained in contrast to other members of Painters Eleven.
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Kazuo Nakamura was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, as a second-generation Japanese Canadian.
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Kazuo Nakamura began his art training in 1940 at the Vancouver Technical Secondary School.
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Kazuo Nakamura was a teenager when he became one of the 22,000 Japanese Canadians interned during World War II.
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Kazuo Nakamura has said little about his state of mind during the Japanese Internment, though he notably attended a 50th anniversary camp reunion later in life.
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Kazuo Nakamura studied at Toronto's Central Technical School, and was a founding member of Painters Eleven.
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Kazuo Nakamura described himself as seeking a "fundamental universal pattern in all art and nature" reflected in his "inner structure" paintings from the 1950s.
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Kazuo Nakamura's work is part of the permanent collection at Toronto's Lester Pearson International Airport and Ontario Provincial Queen's Park Complex.
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In 1983 and 1984 as part of Ontario Heritage Foundation's Firestone Collection Kazuo Nakamura's work toured London, Paris and Madrid.
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In 2000 Kazuo Nakamura was made an honorary fellow at OCAD University He was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.