Yasuto Asahina

Yasuto Asahina was born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1950. He completed a Master of Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts, studying copperplate engraving. In 1980, he held a solo exhibition of paintings at the Shinanobashi Gallery Apron. His works, which utilized deformed canvases in elliptical and egg-shapes and in which pictures of indeterminate form were composed by free strokes, garnered attention as a new approach to painting. He exhibited at “Art Now” in 1982 and 1990 (Kansai Contemporary Art of the 1980s), as well as the “Contemporary Japanese Art 3: Artists Born After the War” Exhibition (The Miyagi Museum of Art) in 1986, the 18th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan/Planning Department’s “Prospects of Contemporary Painting – Plane and Space” (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum) in 1987, and “A Perspective on Contemporary Art: Among the Figures” (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and others) in 1992. He recently took a teaching job at Osaka Kyoiku University.