Hasegawa Shoichi

Shoichi Hasegawa is a Japanese artist born in Yazu in 1929. He is a painter and graphic artist. After studying drawing and painting at the Kokuga Institute in Kyoto, he had his first solo exhibition at Yazu in 1957. While studying in Japan, he became interested in the lyrical abstract works of American artists Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko and Morris Graves. . In 1961, Hasagawa moved to Paris and began working with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17. His work was soon included in collective exhibitions, including the Salon des Jeunes Peintres, Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, International Biennale of Engraving in Ljubljana, and the Biennale or Engraving in Krakow. Since 1957, he has had more than sixty solo exhibitions of his work. Hasegawa's work is in the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale, Paris; New York Museum of Modern Art; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Lowe Museum, Coral Gables; Oklahoma Arts Center; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Norrköpings Museum of Art, Sweden; Museum of Modern Art, Lujbljana; and the Museum Fuji, Tokyo. Since 1975 he has lived in Vetheuil, in Val-d'Oise, France, where Claude Monet had a house.