"The idea of forging a new kind of art, about hope, healing, redemption, refuge, while maintaining visual sophistication and intellectual integrity is a growing movement, one which finds Fujimura's work at the vanguard."     - Robert Kushner

Makoto Fujimura is a painter whose work explores a combination of contemporary American abstract expressionism and traditional Japanese art of Nihonga. Born in Boston and educated both in the United States and Japan, Fujimura creates landscape paintings from ground mineral pigments sometimes overlaid with gold-inscribed quotes from the Bible. In 1990, he founded the International Arts Movement and co-hosted a conference in 1992 titled "The Return to Beauty." His work is included in the collections of the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, and the Time Warner/AOL/CNN building in Hong Kong. Mr. Fujimura graduated from Bucknell University and received an M.F.A. and a doctorate degree from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Fujimura is currently a member on the National Council on the Arts, which advises the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts