Yuiko Mukasa

Born in Saitama, Japan. Studied Abstract Expressionism and its painters including Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb at Tokyo University of the Arts, Brooklyn College and City College of the City University of New York. Author of "The Image of the Artist as a Blind Prophet: An Analysis of Rothko's Tiresias" in Aspects of Problems in Western Art History, vol. 9 (Mar. 2011), "Execution of Automatism in Print: The Prints by Stanley William Hayter and Surrealism" in Journal of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, vol. 7 (Mar, 2011), and "The Motifs of 'Eye' and 'Hero' in Pictographs by Adolph Gottlieb: An Analysis Focusing on His Discussions with Art Critics" in Bijutsushi 179, vol. 65, no.1 (Oct. 2015). Joined the National Art Center, Tokyo, in April 2016. Lives in Tokyo.