Mōri Mami

1926｜Hiroshima – 2022｜Tokyo
Born in Kure, Hiroshima. After graduating high school in 1943, Mōri moved to Tokyo and entered Private Women’s School of Fine Arts (now Joshibi University of Art and Design), but left after one year. In 1950, she relocated to France and studied at the Academy André Lhote. She returned to Japan in 1952 and held her first solo exhibition at the Shiseido Gallery the following year. In 1956, she returned to France and married painter Dōmoto Hisao. Sharing an atelier with her husband, she produced abstract paintings based on female figures but discontinued her practice after becoming pregnant in 1960. Although she took a long hiatus, she resumed painting following an illness in 1994 and held a solo exhibition in 1997.

Mōri Mami《Nude (B)》1957 The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo