Naoko Matsubara RCA, SAGA
324 Coral Terrace
Oakville, ON, L6J 4C4 Canada
Tel +1 905 844 4879
nmatsubara45@gmail.com

Education
1960 BFA Kyoto Academy of Fine Arts, Kyoto, Japan
1962 MFA as a Fulbright scholar, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
1963 Special Invited Student, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2009 Received Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Solo Shows
Since 1960, Naoko Matsubara has had over 80 solo shows, among them:
The Pforzheim Museum, Germany (1968)
The Hamilton Museum, Canada (1979)
The Vancouver Museum, Canada (1990)
The Oriental Museum, Durham, UK (1992)
The Royal Ontario Museum, Canada (2003)
The Canadian Embassy Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2007)
The Carnegie Museum of Art, USA (2009)
Staatliche Museum zu Berlin, Germany (2016)
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, UK (2019, 2020)
Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada (2024–25)

Selected Group Exhibitions
The Hangainten, Tokyo, Japan (1963)
Japanese Twentieth Century Prints”, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA (1966)
“Exposition Internationale de Gravure sur Bois XYLON”. Musée D’Art et D’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland; and Kongresshalle Berlin, West Germany (1969)
“Three Contemporary Printmakers” (Omar Rayo, George Nama, Naoko Matsubara)
The Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (1970)
“Three Generations” (Un’ichi Hiratsuka, Shiko Munakata, Naoko Matsubara), Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, USA (1971)
Exposição de Cinco Gravadores Contemporâneos Americanos, Galeria Conizares, Brazil (1972)
“Japanese Artists in Americas”. The National Museums of Modern Art, Tokyo & Kyoto, Japan (1973)
“Imprint ’76”. The Print and Drawing Council of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada (1976)
“Contemporary Relief Prints” (9 artists). Hiestand Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA (1976)
“Mokuhan. Woodcuts of Munakata & Matsubara” (travelling exhibition, 1976–77):
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada;
Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, Canada;
Glenbow Art Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada
“Moderne Japanische Grafik”. Städtischen Museum, Göttingen, West Germany (1977)
“The Japanese Canadian Centennial Art Exhibition in Ontario” (travelling exhibition):
The Macdonald Gallery, Toronto, ON;
S.A.W. Gallery, Ottawa, ON;
Algoma Art Gallery, Sault Ste. Marie, ON;
Kitchener-Waterloo Gallery, Waterloo, ON;
Lindsay Gallery, Lindsay, ON;
Thames Gallery, Chatham, ON
“The Japanese Prints” (from The James Austin Collection). Carnegie Institute of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (1978)
“4 Artists in Wood”. City of Brampton Library and Art Gallery, Brampton, ON, Canada (1980)
Seoul International Print Biennale, Seoul, Korea (1983)
“Japanese Prints since 1900”. British Museum, London, UK (1983)
“Modern Japanese Prints”. Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR, USA (1989)
“Deep Roots, New Leaves” (Matsubara, Kang, Ramazani). The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada (1990)
“Contemporary Japanese Prints” (Matsubara and Fudezuka). The Art Gallery at the Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, ON Canada (1990)
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, USA (1990)
“Works from the Permanent Collection”. Meguro Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (1992)
“Three Women Artists” (de Pedery Hunt, Kirwin, Matsubara). John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada (1992)
“Trees” (Matsubara and Sunderland: travelling exhibition, 1993):
Bishop’s University, Artists’ Centre, Lennoxville, QC, Canada;
Stewart Art Centre, Pointe-Claire, QC, Canada;
“Japan Now: Three Women Printmakers” (Toko Shinoda, Reika Iwami & Naoko Matsubara). Charlotte, NC, USA (1994)
“Celebrating Ontario”. The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System Art Collection, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, ON, Canada (1994)
“Modern Japanese Prints 1912–1989”. British Museum, London (1994)
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA (1995)
“Tradition Made Modern”, Princeton University Library Gallery, Princeton, NJ, USA (1995)
“Through the Medium of Wood” (Matsubara & Van Ginkel). Japan Foundation Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada (1999)
“Seven Japanese Women Printmakers” (Shinoda, Iwami, Yoshida, Matsubara, Oda, Hoshino, Kiyotsuka), College Women’s Association of Japan, Tokyo American Club, Tokyo, Japan (1999)
“Paper”. 4 Artists Show, Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, ON, Canada (2000)
“Honoring Tradition. Perspectives of Three Asian American Artists: Indira Johnson, Naoko Matsubara, Komelia Okim”. Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, IN, USA (2004)
“Made in Japan: The Postwar Creative Print Movement”. Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA (2005)
“On the Cutting Edge”, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA (2007)
Modern Japanese Prints 1868–1989, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (2007)
World Washi Summit, The Japanese Paper Place, Toronto, ON, Canada (2008)
“The Marguerite Michaels Collection: Japanese Prints of the 1960s and 1970s”. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA (2011)
“Xilogravura Matrice Stilistica 6”. Visual Art Museum, Galati, Romania (by invitation) (2012)
“Breaking Barriers” Japanese Women Print Artists 1950–2000, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, USA (2015)
“Washi”, together with Alexa Hatanaka at The Nikkei National Museum, Burnaby, BC, Canada (2022)
“Participating in their time: Japanese Printmakers 1912–2022”, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (2023)