Join artist Naoko Matsubara and Renée van der Avoird, associate curator of Canadian Art, in celebration of the opening of Matsubara’s career-spanning exhibition of 20 exuberant woodcut prints. Remarks at 2 pm. 

Naoko Matsubara is a distinguished Japanese-Canadian woodcut print artist based in Oakville, Ontario. She was born in 1937 on Shikoku Island into a Shinto family, and grew up in Kyoto. She completed a BFA at the Kyoto Academy of Fine Art in 1960 and was a Fulbright Scholar at what is now Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, where she completed her MFA in 1962. Matsubara was a Special Invited Student at the Royal College of Art in London that same year. After travelling extensively in Europe and Asia, she returned to Japan for two years before returning to the United States. Since 1960 Matsubara has had more than 75 solo exhibitions in the USA, Canada, Japan, England, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, and Mexico. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions. Her work is held in major public institutions worldwide.