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Roger Yutaka Shimomura

Roger Yutaka Shimomura (Born 1939) is active/lives in Kansas.  Roger Shimomura is known for Modernist droll genre painting, Asian American subjects.

The following is from art writer Fred McCraw.

Roger Shimomura was born in Seattle in 1939. He is a third-generation Japanese-American. He holds a BA from the University of Washington and an MFA from Syracuse University. Since 1969, he has been a professor of Fine Art at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where he holds the title of Distinguished Professor.

His art deals extensively with the cultural dichotomy sensed perhaps more strongly by Asian-Americans than by immigrants with non-Asian backgrounds. Addressing that cultural collision and the humor, tragedy and pathos it evokes both in life and in Shimomura's art, Bernice Steinbaum of the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery (NY and Miami, FL) wrote in a recent catalogue that "Roger Shimomura's paintings of people and events satirically mix up and twist the very meaning of American popular culture as a whole and Japanese-American culture in particular." That is a wonderful summation of one aspect of Shimomura's art.

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Facts about Roger Yutaka Shimomura

   Publications  Book References:  8
Magazine References:  5

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5 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Roger Yutaka Shimomura
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Artworld February 2004 Cash, S & Ebony, D Yes
Art in America Report from Houston-Learning from October 2003 Colpitt, Frances Yes
ARTnews Seizing the Moment March 2002 Failing, Patricia Yes
ARTweek Reviews February 2001 Editors, Artweek No
Art in America Review of Exhibitions October 1999 Editors, Art in America Yes
8 Book References for Roger Yutaka Shimomura
Year Author Title Pages Color
2008 Hill, Richard William The World Upside Down (Walter Phillips Gallery) 175 No
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
1996 Serwer, Jacquelyn Days American Kaleidoscope Themes and Perspective in Recent Art
(Exhibition catalog)
160 Yes
1993 Ward, Roger and Patricia J Fidler (Compilers and Editors) The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art A Handbook of the Collection 414 Yes
1990 Lippard, Lucy R Mixed Blessings New Art in a Multicultural America 279 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1985 Lucie-Smith, Edward American Art Now 160 Yes
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