Kyosuke Chinai1948~ 智内兄助

Chinai Kyosuke is a Japanese Western-style (yoga) painter born in 1948 in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture (formerly Namikata, Ochi District), the youngest of six siblings. After attending Imabari Nishi High School, he completed his graduate studies in oil painting at Tokyo University of the Arts in 1974. He received an Honorable Mention at the 15th Shell Art Award Exhibition in 1971 and held his first solo show in 1975. From 1978 to 1981 he won Figaro First Prize, Second Prize, and Special Prizes at the Franco-Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, and in 1987 he received the Special Prize at the 30th Yasui Prize Exhibition. From the early 1980s he developed a distinctive technique of acrylic on washi paper that transcended the boundary between Japanese-style and Western-style painting. Since 2002 he has held quadrennial solo exhibitions at Galerie Tamenaga in France, with works collected by international figures including Roger Federer and the Rothschild family.