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.

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

1983
1984
1990
1995
1996
1997
2002
2005
2006