Keiko Hara

Keiko Hara was born in 1942 in North Korea to Japanese parents and moved to Japan in 1945. She relocated to the United States in 1971. She holds an M.F.A. in Printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art and taught at Whitman College (1985–2006). Her practice explores themes of place, memory, and cultural intersection through abstract compositions in mixed media and mokuhanga woodblock printing.

KEIKO HARABIOGRAPHY & WORKS

1942 Born in North Korea to Japanese parents 1945 Moved to Japan with family 1971 Moved to the United States 1983 Granted permanent U.S. resident status as an artist 2018 Shows at the Aldo Castillo Gallery Education 1976 M.F.A., Printmaking, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI 1975 M.A., Printmaking, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 1974 B.F.A., Painting, Mississippi State University for Women, Columbus, MS 1966 Painting, Oita-Kenritsu Art College, Oita, Japan 1964 Painting and Drawing, Gendai Art School, Tokyo, Japan Teaching 1985–2006 Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 1980–1985 University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls, WI 1978–1980 Carthage College, Kenosha, WI Grants and Awards 2017 Artist in Residence, Pilchuck Glass Summer Program, Stanwood, WA 2012 Mokuhanga Innovative Artist-in-Residence for Mid-Career, Tokyo, Japan 2011 Research Teaching Fellowship, Associated Kyoto Program (AKP), Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan 2008 Public Art Commission, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR 2006 Public Art Commission, Washington State Arts Commission, Seattle, WA 2005 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY 2001 Invitational Public Art Grant, King County Art Commission, Seattle, WA 1999 Northwest Academic Computing Consortium Grant (NWACC), Portland, OR 1997 Perry Summer Research Grant, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA Gellet Teaching Fellowship Purchase Award, Portland Art Museum/Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, Portland, OR 1994 Fellowship Grant, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA 1991 Purchase Award, Oita Art College, Oita, Japan 1989 Artist-in-Residence at Centrum, Pacific Rim Cultural Connection Project, Washington State Centennial Commission, Olympia, WA 1987 Research Teaching Fellowship, Associated Kyoto Program (AKP), Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan 1984 Selection Award, Philadelphia Print Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA 1983 Artist-in-Residence Grant, Artpark, Lewiston, NY 1976 First Prize, Michigan Print & Drawing Exhibition, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI Selected Solo Exhibits 2 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITS 2022-2023 Keiko Hara: Four Decades of Paintings & Prints, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman WA 2017 Keiko Hara—Mokuhanga Print Work, Sammamish City Hall Gallery, Sammamish, WA Keiko Hara—Recent Paintings, Prints and Glass, Foundry Vineyards Gallery, Walla Walla, WA 2016 Keiko Hara—Topophilia Ma and Ki · Installation and Works on Paper - Memory, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY 2015 Keiko Hara—Verse Ma and Ki - Memory, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL 2014 Keiko Hara—Topophilia Ma and Ki · Installation, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL 2013 Keiko Hara—Topophilia Ma and Ki, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL Keiko Hara Prints 1981–2013, Bainbridge Arts and Crafts, Bainbridge Island, WA Keiko Hara Prints 1981–2013, Pendleton Center for the Arts, Pendleton, OR 2012 Work of Keiko Hara, Olympia Center, Chicago, IL 2011 Keiko Hara—Works on Canvas and Paper and Installation, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 Verses—Reflected and Reflecting, Public Art at the City Archives & Records Center, Portland, OR 2009 Keiko Hara—New Work, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL 2008 Verse in Sesshu, Cohju Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan Keiko Hara—New Works on Canvas and Paper, Lorinda Knight Gallery, Spokane, WA 2007 Topophilia Imbuing, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC Keiko Hara—New Paintings, Lorinda Knight Gallery, Spokane, WA 2006 Keiko Hara—Verse Imbuing, The Walla Walla Foundry Gallery, Walla Walla, WA Keiko Hara—Imbuing in Monet, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005 Keiko Hara—Verses from the Sea, Center for Arts and History, Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, ID 2004 Keiko Hara—Seasons, The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, WA 2003 Keiko Hara—Painting and Works on Paper, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL Keiko Hara—Works on Paper and Canvas, Perimeter Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Keiko Hara—New Works, Lorinda Knight Gallery, Spokane, WA 2001 Topophilia—Semaru Print Installation, Autzen Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR Keiko Hara—Recent Works on Canvas, Paper and Glass, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA Keiko Hara—New Works, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL 2000 Paintings and Works on Paper, Lorinda Knight Gallery, Spokane, WA Topophilia—Semaru, Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID\ 1999 Topophilia—Departing, Foster/White Gallery, Kirkland, WA 1998 Verse—Semaru, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL 1997 Topophilia—Hagoromo, Lorinda Knight Gallery, Spokane, WA Topophilia—Sumida River, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 1996 Recent Works, Foster/White Gallery, Kirkland, WA 1995 Topophilia III—Quilt Works, Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR Topophilia V—100 Gates, North Central Washington Museum Gallery, Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee, WA Keiko Hara’s Recent Paintings and Prints, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL 1994 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA Topophilia—100 Gates, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA 1992 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL 1991 Mid-Columbia Art Center, Kennewick, WA 1990 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL The Gallery 3286, Mississippi State University for Women, Columbus, MI 1989 The Gallery, Cornish School of Art, Seattle, WA 1987 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL 1985 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 1984 Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, St. Paul, MN 1982 – 1983 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL 1981 Gallerie in Den Vierlander, Hamburg, West Germany Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI 1976 – 1979 Bradley Galleries, Milwaukee, WI SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS 2023 Racine Art Museum-Vignettes: Concentated Views of RAM's Collection, Racine, WI 53401. 2022 Flatfile Gallery –Mokuhanga", Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY 2022" 2022 “Unique Impressions” International Monoprint & Monotype International” Davidson Galleries Galleres, Seattle WA 2021 – 2022 Mokuhanga and Sumi” Gallery Ami Kanoko, Oosaka, Japan 2021 – 2022 “Artworks Made of Multiple Elements", Racine Art Museum, Racine Wisconsin 2021 “Black and Blue Prints-Lily Press” Gallerie Myrtis, Baltimore MD 2021 “Music as Image and Metaphor” The George Ohr Museum, Biloxi, Mississippi 2021 “Music as Image and Metaphor” The Bartlett Center in Columbus, Georgia. 2020 Good Form, Decorum, And In The Manner: Portraits from the collections of Washington Print Club Members. Curated by Tim Doud. American University Museum at Katzen Art Center, Washington DC 2019 Portrait: The Kentler Flatfiles in 58 Works, Curated by David Houston, Kentler Space, NY Breaking Boundaries, International Mokuhanga Print Exhibition, Foundry Vineyards, WA Biennial Artist Books Exhibition: Construction/Deconstruction, Bend Art Center, Bend, OR 2018 BAM Biennial 2018:BAM! Glasstastic, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA Honoring Karen Johnson Boyd: Collecting In-Depth at Home and at RAM, Racine, WA Thailand-Seattle Print Exchange, Seattle Central Community College Gallery, sponsored by the Seattle Print Arts Pattern Play: Woodcut Print Invitational Exhibition, Constellation Studios, Lincoln, NE Mokuhanga: Impressions Past and Present, Crowell and West Galleries, Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts, Union College, Schenectady, NY 2017 Selection from the Kentler Flatfils New Additions, Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, NY Mokuhanga Exhibition by Hara, Vollmer & Goto, Studio 7 Fine Arts, Donkey Mill Art Center, Hawaii 2016 “Mapping: Carte Blanche," Curated by Dita Amory, Curator of the Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at Kentler Drawing Space in NY Suitcase Art Exhibition, curated by Daniele Di Lodovico, 110 Gallery, Seattle, WA Bend, Fold, Mutilate: Paper Takes Shape, Bainbridge Arts and Crafts, Bainbridge Island, WA 2015 Nebulous: Abstract Works From RAM’s Collection, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI From Artist’s Eye, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA Working in NYC Artists-705 Driggs Avenue, CCSU Art Galleries, New Britain, CT WPC 50th Anniversary Biennial, Katzen Art Center, American University Abstract American Mokuhanga, Sheehan Gallery at Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA International Mokuhanga 2014 Conference, AIR Program Exhibition at 3331-Arts-CYD, Tokyo, Japan Impression—Selection from Stewart & Stewart 1980–Present, Printer/Publisher of Fine Prints, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI 2013 Impression—Selection from Stewart & Stewart 1980–Present, Printer/Publisher of Fine Prints, Gallery 72, Omaha, NE Mokuhanga Exhibition, Cullom Gallery, Seattle, WA 2012 Mokuhanga Artist Residency Print Exhibition, MI-Lab Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2010 Someday My Prints Will Come: Wisconsin Printmakers in RAM’s Collection, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI Japanese Prints and Works on Paper, Thos. Moser Studio, New York, NY Abstract Art, The Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL 2009 The Arts—A Celebration, The Anacortes Arts Festival at the Port Invitational Exhibition, Anacortes, WA Love, Let Me Count the Ways—Washington Print Club 20th Biennial, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC Border Crossings, Kyoto International Cultural Center, Kyoto, Japan 2008 A Sense of Place, MAPC Print Conference Invitational Exhibition, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB Three Artists from Brooklyn, New York, Art Forum JARFO, Kyoto, Japan Visions, Selections from the James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawing, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, and Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL 2007 Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL In Circulation—Works on Paper, Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, The George Washington University, Washington, DC Cultural Evolution and Diffusion, The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO Print Types, Ashford University, Clinton, IA 2006 East Meets West—The Contemporary Asian Aesthetic, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI 2005 Cultural Evolution & Diffusion, Traveling exhibition, The Print Consortium, Kansas City, MO 2004 Mixed Media Print Invitation, Seattle Art Museum, Rental Gallery, Seattle, WA American Relief Prints, University Place Art Center, Lincoln, NE Mark My Word—Text, Code and Literary Allusion, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA Impressions, Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA New Prints 2003—Autumn, International Print Center New York, New York, NY 2003 Sensory Experience Portfolio, Southern Graphic Council Conference, New Orleans, LA 2002 Gallery Space, Bellevue Community College, Bellevue, WA 2001 Sumida River, Large installation work with text for the Northwest Book Fest 2000, Stadium Exhibition Center, Seattle, WA 2000 Japonisme and Japanese Printmaking, The George Washington University Dimock Gallery, Washington, DC 1999 Contemporary Collaborations, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA Graphica Creativa, International Print Exhibition 9th Print Triennial of the Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Jyvaskyla, Finland 1998 The Artist Trust Grant Recipient Exhibition, The Chase Gallery, Spokane, WA Regional Women Printmakers, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA Blue Mountain Artists, Three-person exhibition at the Simon Edwards Gallery, Yakima, WA Japanese Contemporary Printmaker, Two-person exhibition, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Contemporary American Prints, Addison/Ripley Fine Arts, Washington, DC Color Print USA, National Invitational Print Portfolio exhibition in 50 U.S. States (the exhibition opened simultaneously in all 50 states) University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA Japanese/American—The In Between, Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Portland, OR 1997 Northwest Experimental Printmakers, Marylhurst College Art Gym, Portland, OR International Print Art Exhibition, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR The Best of Chicago, Gallery V, Columbus, OH Abstraction Painters, COCA, Seattle, WA 1996 Beyond the Rock Garden, The Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, WA 1995 The National Print Art Invitational Exhibition, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Interior—The Idiosyncratic Art of Eastern Washington Idioms, Invitational exhibition, SeaFirst Gallery, Seattle, WA 1994 Graphic Legacy, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC Branden Walter Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1992 Art Exhibit, Auction of Mailboxes, The Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC One Illinois Center/Metropolitan Structure, Chicago, IL Branden Walter Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1991 Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA Centrum Print, King County, WA Collaboration in Print—Stewart & Stewart Prints 1980–1990, The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI Landmark Editions—A Decade of Contemporary Prints, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 1990 Works on Paper and Canvas—Multi-Cultural Perspectives, Governor’s Invitational Exhibition, WA State Capital Museum, Olympia, WA 1986 – 1988 Contemporary Screens, the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, travelling exhibit, organized by the Art Museum Association of America 1986 Outside Japan, Museum of Art, Pullman, WA Works on Paper, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL 1985 The Print Club Selects, Philadelphia, PA Off and On the Wall Dimensional Paper, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY, and Pennsylvania State University, Middleton, PA 1984 Philadelphia 60th Print Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL National Dimensional Paper Works, Baltimore, MD Paper Works with Wood, Plum Gallery, Kingston, MD 1983 Wisconsin Painters and Print Exhibit, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI Printed by Women, A National Exhibition of Prints and Photos by Women, The Port of History Museum at Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia, PA 1982 One of a Kind Printmaking USA, England Electronic Art Exhibit, Honeywell Co., Minneapolis, MN 1981 Midwest Company Art, Pillsbury Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 1979 Philadelphia 55th Print Club Exhibit, Philadelphia, PA 18th Annual International Invitational Print Show, New York, NY 1978 Madison Invitational, Madison, WI 1977 Benjamin Galleries, Chicago, IL 1976 30th American Invitational & 20th National Print Show, Brooklyn Art Museum, Brooklyn, NY Michigan Print and Drawing Show, Detroit, MI BIBLIOGRAPHY 2019 "Keiko Hara", Mokuhanga Impressions Past and Present, Visual Arts, Union College, NY 2018 "Keiko Hara", Singular and Serial, Contemporary Monotype and Monoprint by Karman/Rooney, Schiffer Publishing, PA 2017 "Keiko Hara Exhibit Opens" Marquee- Union Bulletin, Walla Walla, WA 2013 "Review: Keiko Hara/Perimeter Gallery," Chris Miller, New City Art, Chicago “Art Exhibition Surpasses Language and Tradition,” Cecilia Garza, Bainbridge Island Review 2009 "Keiko Hara—Juxtaposition to the Character to Surface," Sylvia Krzystofek, Art Talk Chicago 2008 "Border Crossings—Painting for a New Era," Robert C. Morgan, Exhibition Essay, Kyoto International Community House and Cohju Contemporary Art Kyoto, Japan 2007 "Visions," Townsend Wolfe, Selections for the James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawings Keiko Hara—Sense of Place," Dorothea A. Dietrich, The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center 2006 "Keiko Hara’s Springtime, Shreds of Language," Robert C. Morgan, The Perimeter Gallery "Keiko Hara at Perimeter Gallery," Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune 2005 "Keiko Hara Seasons," Lois Allan, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture 2004 "Making Her Mark," Sheri Boggs, The Pacific Northwest Inlander 2003 · "Keiko Hara at the Perimeter Gallery," Lisa Stein, ARTnews · "Critic’s Choice," Fred Camper, Chicago Reader 2001 "Reflecting Her Heritage," Andrea Palpant, Spokane Home & Life 2000 "The Art of Keiko Hara—Topophilia–Semaru," Gail Siegel, Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho 1999 "Print Inside, Graphica Creativa '99," Jukka Partanen, Head Curator, Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Finland "Japonisme and Japanese Printmaking," Lenore D. Miller, Director, Luther Brady Art Museum, The George Washington University Galleries 1998 "Creating the In Between," D. K. Row, Sunday Oregonian Arts & Books "Japanese American In Between," Terry Hopkins, Director, Art Gym Gallery, Marylhurst University "Color Print USA," Mark Pascale, Chicago Art Institute 1997 "Contemporary Printmaker in the Northwest," Lois M. Allan, Craftsman House 1994 "Graphic Legacy," Susan Fisher Sterling, The National Museum of Women in the Arts "No Discernible Path," Loly Anderson, ArtWeek 1992 "Keiko Hara," Peter Frank, Vision "Keiko Hara—Topophilia," Alan G. Artner, Chicago Tribune 1986 “Contemporary Screens,” Virginia Fabbri Butera, San Francisco—Art Museum Association of America 1983 “Printed by Women,” Judith K. Brodsky and Ofelia Garcia, The Port of History Museum at Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia, PA 1976 “The 20th National Print Exhibition,” Gene Baro, Guest Curator, Print Collector Newsletter, NY PERMANENT COLLECTION: PUBLIC SPACES Arkansas Arts Center, AR Art Institute of Chicago, IL ASU Art Collection, Temple, AZ AT & T Co., Chicago, IL Bellevue Art Museum, WA Chapman & Cutler, Chicago, IL Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI Council House-Johnson Wax Company, Racine, WI Cray Research Co., Minneapolis, MN Detroit Institute of Art, MI Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH IBM Corporation, Chicago, IL Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, WSU, Pullman, WA Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA King County Public Art Commission, Seattle, WA Library of Congress, Washington, DC MacMurray College, Jacksonville, IL Marshall Field & Co., Chicago, IL Microsoft Software Co., Seattle, WA Milwaukee Art Museum, WI Muskegon Museum of Art, MI National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, WA Oita Art College, Oita, Japan Piper, Jaffrey & Hopwood Inc., Minneapolis, MN Portland Art Museum/Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, Portland, OR Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR Sony Co., Washington, DC St. Paul Company, Minneapolis, MN Tacoma Art Museum, WA Vail Athletic Club, Vail, CO Washington Art Consortium/Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA Washington State Art Commission’s Public Art Collection, WA Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA Yale New Haven Hospital, CT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES 2017 Paper presentation, International Mokuhanga Conference at University of Hawai, Honolulu Mokuhanga Workshop, International Mokuhanga Conference at Donkey Mill Art Center, Kona, Hawaii Satellite Program at Donkey Mill Art Center, Kona, Hawaii Co-organized Mokuhanga Print Center Summer Studio Program, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 2016 Panelist at SGCI Conference, Dynamic MIx: Japanese Woodblock in the U.S . Portland, OR March 30 - April 2 2015 Co-founder of the Whitman College Mokuhanga Center Juror, Artist Trust Fellowship