Artists from Miyagi Prefecture

Kenichi Nakajima (中島 健一, Nakajima Kenichi, born 1978) is a Japanese painter, visual artist, and performance artist. He is known for his exhibitions at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, including the group exhibitions Life on Earth and Togetherness and Oneness. He has also participated in exhibitions such as The Right to Silence? at the Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery and the solo exhibition From FEET to Art.

Seiko Kanno (菅野 聖子, nee Seiko Aizawa, 1933–1988) is a participant of the 'third generation' of the Gutai Art Association from the mid 1960s onward. Her paintings are often characterized by an inorganic composition, seemingly devoid of emotional expression. Kanno is also a member of an experimental, avant-garde group of poets, in which she composed highly visual poems using symbols and katakana syllables. Her work additionally suggests her admiration of music, physics and mathematics, to which she became devoted towards in her later years.

Junpei Satoh (佐藤淳平 Satō Junpei) (born January 19, 1956), is a contemporary Western-style painter in Japan.

Churyo Sato (Japanese: 佐藤 忠良, Hepburn: Satō Chūryō, 1912 – 2011) was a Japanese sculptor born in Miyagi Prefecture and grew up in Hokkaido. In 1932 he moved to Tokyo to become a painter. Becoming influenced by Aristide Maillol and Charles Despiau, Sato decided to specialize in sculpture.

Midori Suzuki is a Japanese artist who has developed her career mostly in Mexico, both as an individual artist and as a member of the Japanese-Mexican artist collective Flor de Maguey. She was trained as an artist in Japan and Spain. In the latter country, she saw a sarape for the first time and became interested in Latin America, going to Mexico for the first time in the early 1980s. She met her husband while in the country and although they first lived in Japan, they then decided to live permanently in Mexico. Suzuki has had numerous exhibitions in Japan, Spain and Mexico, both individually and in group showings. Her work has also been featured in books and magazines.