Biography

Noted lithographer Kenji Nanao was born in Japan and received artistic training at the San Francisco Art Institute.  A Professor Emeritus from Hayward State University, Nanao actively exhibits here and abroad, and prints from the Smith Anderson Gallery in Palo Alto. (SJMA Collections Committee, 2001)

Kenjilo Nanao was born in 1929 in Aomori City, Japan. In 1960 he moved to San Francisco to study painting and printmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute with Nathan Oliveira and others. He received his M.F.A. in 1971. He has been a professor of art at Cal State University, Hayward, Stanford University, University of New Hampshire, and San Jose State University. Nanao has had solo exhibitions at Smith Andersen Gallery in Palo Alto, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum Art School in New York, and the Honolulu Academy of Arts in Hawaii. He has also shown internationally in Japan and Australia. His work is held in the collections of the Oakland Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. This would be the second work by the artist to enter San Jose Museum of Art’s permanent collection. The Museum currently has one lithograph. (SJMA Collections Committee, 2006)

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