About Fukumi Shimura
Dyeing and Weaving Artist
Born on September 30, 1924
Omihachiman, Shiga, Japan
Ms. Shimura has developed her original style of art, commanding an extraordinarily colorful range of plant–dyed yarns as her visual vocabulary and unleashing her imagination to improvise an infinite resonance of colors over canvases of tsumugi kimono. Through a constant communication with nature and deep meditation, she has cultivated a “tender and flexible thought that advances to weave human existence into nature.”
2014 Kyoto Prize Commemorative Lecture presented by Ms. Fukumi Shimura
Fukumi Shimura Exhibits
- The Art of Fukumi Shimuru at the Shiga Museum of Modern ArtThe Shiga Museum of Modern Art display of Tsumugi Kimono designs by Fukumi Shimura.
- Gallery Fukumi ShimuraThe gallery exhibits textiles that reflect Shimura's philosophy which connects dyeing and weaving with the natural world.
- Tisser les couleurs: les Kimonos de Fukumi Shimura à la Maison de la Culture du JaponAn exhibit of kimonos created by Fukumi Shimura and her daughter Yoko that reflect their deep respect for nature.