Ayako Tsuru (born 1941) is a contemporary Japanese artist from

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. She studied at the National Institute of Fine Arts (

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) from 1959 to 1963, before moving on to the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts of

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, Austria in 1968, and the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art in

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from 1970 to 1971.

Early years

Ayako Tsuru was born in Mexico City on October 23, 1941. Her parents were Mihoko Kayaba and Dr.

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, a prominent Japanese doctor who lived in Mexico from the early 1930s. Since Tsuru was born during

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her parents were concerned about the family and her health so they sent her to Dr. Tsuru's ranch in

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, San Luis Potosi where she went to school and was kept safe during the war years.

Art studies

Her major teachers were Armando Lopez Carmona and

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, from whom she would get special talks on the subject by the mural art. She majored as a mural artist at the San Carlos Academy from 1959–1963.

Professional work

She then became a teacher of vitreous enamels at the National Museum of Cultures in Mexico City. In 1970 she traveled to Tokyo, Japan, where she studied under Japanese Arts teacher Shigeo Iwazawa, and later did an exhibition by personal permission from Master Arts teacher Insho Domoto.

Exhibitions

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and Enamels; Mexico City, Mexico. 1967 *

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Cultural center: Enamels; Mexico City, Mexico. 1967 * School of

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: Mural paintings and Enamels; Mexico City, Mexico. 1967 *

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of Acapulco: oil painting;

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, Mexico. 1968 * The International summer Academy of Fine Arts of Salzburg: Modern

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(

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); Salzburg, Austria. 1968 * The

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: Modern Jewellery, Vitreous Enamels and Mural Painting; Mexico City, Mexico. 1969 * The Art Gallery of Mexico City: Oil Painting, water color; Mexico. 1970 * Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art: Japanese

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, oil painting; Kyoto, Japan. 1972 * IFAL The

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of Latin America: Mexico City, Mexico. 1973 * The

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of Israel: Mexico City, Mexico. 1974.

Artwork in museums

* Museum of Art of

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. * Museum of Art of Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico (August 17, 1971)Excelsior Mexican Newspaper 1971

References

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