Nishida Shun'ei


Nishida Shun'ei is a Japanese painter who specializes in portraits and is a professor of Japanese painting at Hiroshima City University.
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Biography

In 1977, Nishida graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Japanese Painting.
Nishida Shun'ei was greatly inspired by Indian culture, and in 1993 went to study painting as overseas research personnel of the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs. While in India he was awakened to portraiture and in 1995 received the Nihon Bijutsuin Award as well as the newly established Adachi Museum of Art Award for his Pushkar no Rojin, depicting the face of an Indian village chief.
In 1996 he won the Tenshin Memorial Ibaraki Award for Jakko depicting a young monk of Ladakh. In 1997 he received the Nihon Bijutsuin Award for the second time for "Carlos", which was praised for its use of light in depicting the life and feelings of the subject. Shun'ei was recommended for dōnin of the institute.
The exhibition Inochi no Sanka led to the publication of the book of the same name in 2003.
At present, Nishida Shun'ei is a Donin and Hyogi-in of the Japan Art Institute.

Awards and exhibitions

  • 1971 – Won Chubu Shunyo kai Award, selected at Shunyo kai 3 times.
  • 1983 – Received the Award of Excellence in the 7th Yamatane Museum of Art Award Exhibition.
  • 1984 – Gained the Grand Prize of 84 Tokyo Central Museum Japanese Painting Grand Prize Exhibition.
  • 1990 – Obtained the Contemporary Art Exhibition Recommendation Award in the first Ryoyo no Me Exhibition. Exhibited at the Contemporary Screen Painting Exhibition.
  • 1995 – Won the 50th and 51st spring In-ten Encouragement Award. Received the Japan Fine Arts Institute Exhibition Award Taikan Award in the 80th In-ten. Gained the 1st Adachi Museum of Art Award.
  • 1996 – Received the Encouragement Award of the 81st In-ten, the Tenshin Memorial Ibaraki Award and the Scholarship Award of the Japan Art Institute. Exhibited at the 30th Contemporary Art Selective Exhibition of the Agency for the Cultural Affairs.
  • 1997 – Won the Japan Fine Arts Institute Exhibition Award Taikan Award in the 82nd In-ten. The Exhibition of excellent artworks purchased by the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 1997.
  • 1998 – Recommended as Donin at the Japan Art Institute.
  • 2002 – Received the Minister of Culture, Education and Science Award in the 87th In-ten. Private exhibition of Nishida, Shun'ei ~Prayer~.
  • 2003 – Retrospective exhibition of Nishida, Shun'ei ~ In Praise of Life ~.
  • 2004 – Private exhibition of Nishida, Shun'ei ~ Tranquil time ~.
  • 2005 – Won the Prime Minister’s Award in the 90th In-ten. Private exhibition of Nishida, Shunei ~ In the Light ~. Private exhibition ~ Nostalgia ~.
  • 2006 – Won the 12th Adachi Museum of Art Award in the 91st In-ten.
  • 2008 – Private exhibition of Nishida, Shun'ei～On My Way~.

Works

1983
  • Flower Decorations before a Buddhist Image
1984
  • Holy Bull
1990
  • Morning
1995
  • Painter of Minituarl
  • Old Man of Pushkar
1996
  • Old Man in Mountain
  • Hints of Light
1997
  • Carlos
2002
  • King　182×498
2005
  • Moon in February
2006
  • Cranes in Kibi