Kinji Akagawa
Printmaking, Visual Artist
1940 –
Who is Kinji Akagawa?
Kinji Akagawa is an American sculptor and arts educator best known for sculptural constructions that also serve a practical function. A pioneer in the public art movement, Akagawa has throughout his career examined the relationship between art and community, most notably the concept of art as a process of inquiry. His sculpture and public artworks are noted for their refined elegance and use of natural materials, such as granite, basalt, fieldstone, cedar, and ipe wood.
Akagawa trained at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles; the Minneapolis College of Art and Design; and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where he earned an MFA degree in 1969.
From 1973 to 2009, Akagawa was a professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where he taught sculpture, printmaking, photography, video, installation and conceptual art.
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- Born
- 1940
Tokyo - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- University of Minnesota
- Lived in
- Tokyo
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on July 23, 2013
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