Samples & Related Artists

Hiroshi Senju

Hiroshi Senju (Born 1958) is active/lives in Japan.  Hiroshi Senju is known for Waterfall image painting, traditional and avant-garde styles.

Hiroshi Senju is a Nihonga painter known for his large scale waterfall paintings. He graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1982. In 1987 he finished the Ph.D program at the Graduate School of Tokyo University of the Arts.

His success largely came about in the 1990s in response to his gigantic waterfall paintings. These paintings often hung in corporate and public buildings, and Senju has been said to be one of a few artists today whose work is recognized by the general Japanese population.

Senju was the first Asian artist to receive an Honorable Mention Award at the Venice Biennale in 1995.

These waterfall paintings often focus at the base of the waterfall where the falls crash into the pool below, usually cropping out the top of the falls. As a painter he primarily uses traditional Japanese painting techniques; employing pigments derived from natural materials and applying them to a specially designed mulberry paper. In contrast to the norm of displaying   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3852 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 281 auction lots for Hiroshi Senju (of which 251 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 1 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 1 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Hiroshi Senju as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Hiroshi Senju in 0 of its research Essays. Hiroshi Senju has 3 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Hiroshi Senju available:    Setsuko Migishi,  Atsushi Uemura,  Seiji Togo,  Sumio Goto,  Kazuki Yasuo,  Yukio Kodama,  Gyokudo Kawai,  Chinami Nakajima,  Takeshi Hayashi,  Koji Kinutani,  Tamako Kataoka,  Taikan Yokoyama,  Morikazu Kumagai,  Shinsui Ito,  Toshio Matsuo,  Reiji Hiramatsu,  Katsumi Ukita,  Hitone Noma,  Togyu Okumura,  Keigo Kimura,  Chikkyo Ono,  Noriko Tamura,  Shiko Munakata,  Ryohei Koiso