Fumio Wakabayashi

Graduated from the Department of Japanese Painting at Musashino Art University in 1966. Soon after he specialized in copperplate etching printmaking, and since the last ten years also making woodcut prints. His studio is in Chikuma City, Nagano Prefecture. Currently Chairman of the Shinshu Print Art Association.
He has held over 100 solo exhibitions both in Japan and overseas and had been invited artist in Hungary, especially since 1990, what influenced his artist carrier mainly.

1966 Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Japanese Painting, studied under Professor Toyoshiro Fukuda.
1990~1991 Vác National Print Studio AIR Residency Production/Hungary

1991~2008 Japan-Hungarian Contemporary Print Art Exhibition /Kamiyamada Cultural Center
1995 Shinshu Modern Print Art Exhibition II. Invited Artist /Suzaka Print Art Museum
1998~2011 Nakagen Art Project Solo Exhibition, Held for 13 Years /Kyobashi, Tokyo
1999-2002 Kanae Yamamoto Print Award Exhibition /Ueda City Museum of Art
2000 Hungarian Japanese Contemporary Print Art Exhibition, Pécs Gallery /Hungary
2005 The Cosmos of Colors, Print Works of Fumio Wakabayashi /Suzaka Print Art Museum
2006~2018 The Charm of Print Art, held twelve times by selected representatives /Ueda City Art
2008 Fantasy of Color, Fumio Wakabayashi Copperplate Print Exhibition /Kiyosato Kitazawa Museum of Art
2011 “Blue Concerto” NADOR Gallery, ARCUS Gallery, REDAI Gallery
Three gallery traveling solo exhibition /Hungary
2014 Fumio Wakabayashi Copperplate Print Solo Exhibition at Gyula Castle /Gyula city, Hungary
2019 Beneath the Cherry Trees, Dual exhibition, National Taipei University of Education, Art Gallery /Taipei, Taiwan
2023 Fumio Wakabayashi Print Art Exhibition, Chenggong High School /Taipei, Taiwan
2023 (since 1999 regularly) Fumio Wakabayashi Print Art, Nagano Tokyu Dep. Art Salon/ Nagano city, Japan