Yoshiaki Watanabe
__NOTOC__ (June 24, 1955 - November 4, 2009) was a Japanese artist, born in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan and best known for his installation work involving candles.He graduated from the undergraduate program at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (now known as Tokyo University of the Arts) in 1980 with a degree in oil painting, and completed a graduate program in mural work in 1982. From 1985 to 1989 he lived and worked in Germany at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf on a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service) grant.
He returned to Japan in 1989 and began working at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music as an assistant, eventually matriculating to a full professorship. In 1999 he was one of the founding professors of the university's Inter-Media Arts program. He was also one of the main organisers of the Toride Art Project, a community arts project based in Toride City in Ibaraki, Japan. More recently he had done extensive work founding the Ino Artists Village.
As an artist, Watanabe had exhibited extensively around the world, completing exhibitions in Turkey and Germany shortly before his death.
He died from sudden heart failure on November 4, 2009. Provided by Wikipedia
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6by Katashi Kubo, Yoshiaki Watanabe, Hitoshi Matsunaka, Masako Seki, Masaya Fujita, Naoyuki Kawada, Koichi Hatta, Takashi NakajimaGet full text
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7by Katashi Kubo, Yoshiaki Watanabe, Atsushi Oyanagi, Shigenobu Kaneko, Makiko Chono, Hitoshi Matsunaka, Masako Seki, Masaya FujitaGet full text
Published 2008-01-01
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8by Tomoya Segawa, Kenji Omi, Yoshiaki Watanabe, Yaeko Sone, Masaki Handa, Masako Kuroda, Osamu Miyauchi, Hisao Osada, Shokichi TeramotoGet full text
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10by Mikage Nakamura, Gaku Yamanaka, Hisashi Kawashima, Yoshiaki Watanabe, Hiroaki Ioi, Yasuyo Kashiwagi, Kouji Takekuma, Akinori Hoshika, Mizuho Hayakawa, Shigeru SuzukiGet full text
Published 2005-01-01
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11by Kunihiko Kiuchi, Koji Fukuzawa, Munenobu Nogami, Yoshiaki Watanabe, Mitsuru Takami, Yu Izawa, Noriyuki Negi, Katsusuke Kyotani, Shumpei Mori, Ken‐Ichi HirataGet full text
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12by Hiromi Matsuyama, Masaya Fujita, Masako Seki, Hisayo Kojima, Yumi Shimazaki, Hitoshi Matsunaka, Makiko Chono, Kouichi Hatta, Katashi Kubo, Toshiyuki Takayama, Chikako Kiribuchi-Otobe, Shunsuke Oda, Yoshiaki Watanabe, Kenji KatoGet full text
Published 2015-01-01
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13by Munenobu Nogami, Feibi Zeng, Junko Inukai, Yoshiaki Watanabe, Mizuho Nishio, Tomonori Kanda, Yoshiko R Ueno, Keitaro Sofue, Atsushi K Kono, Masatoshi Hori, Akihito Ohnishi, Kazuhiro Kubo, Takako Kurimoto, Takamichi MurakamiGet full text
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14by Jun Kurose, Kunihiko Kiuchi, Koji Fukuzawa, Shumpei Mori, Hirotoshi Ichibori, Hiroki Konishi, Yayoi Taniguchi, Kiyohiro Hyogo, Hiroshi Imada, Hideya Suehiro, Yu‐ichi Nagamatsu, Tomomi Akita, Makoto Takemoto, Ken‐ichi Hirata, Shinsuke Shimoyama, Yoshiaki Watanabe, Tatsuya Nishii, Noriyuki Negi, Katsusuke KyotaniGet full text
Published 2018-04-01
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