Award-winning Chinese ink painter
Sou A Kou (Simplified Chinese: 曹 亜鋼; born 1960, Jilin Province, China) is an ink and wash art painter living in Japan.[1][2][3][4] He is famous for producing hundreds of ink paintings.[5] He has taught over 1500 students and held over 30 exhibitions in his career.[6]
Life and art
In 2003 he was awarded the Japan-China Culture and Art Exchange Contribution Award[7] and the UN World Peace Academy Award in 2005.[8] He held a 30th anniversary exhibition for his life work in 2021 at his Art Academy in Tokyo.[6]
On 20 July 2023, he announced a new collaboration with Tetsuya Komuro to produce an art collection that features music from Komuro, as well as the world's largest ink painting.[9][10][11][12]
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