Suikei Saito (b. 1945) apprenticed under Shunkei Yahagi. In 1990 she won her first prize in the 42nd Mainichi Shodo Exhibition. Since then, she has collected various awards, such as the Parliament Building Vice-President Award at Vienna New Century in 2005 and a prize at the 62nd Mainichi Shodo Exhibition Group Core at Hayama Bunkaen in 2006. Saito is in numerous public collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art / Philadelphia, USA, Phaya Thai Palace Collection, 70th Anniversary of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, and The Embassy of Algeria in Tokyo, Japan.
Currently, Saito serves as a member of the Mainichi Shodo Association, Dokuritsu Shojindan Foundation, and serves as an instructor of calligraphy at the Hotel New Otani and Azabu Calligraphy School.
Biography
1988 Apprenticed to Shunkei Yahagi
1990 Won her first prize in the 42nd Mainichi Shodo Exhibition
1991 Won her first prize in the 39th Dokuritsu ‘Sho’ Exhibition
2003 Received an excellent prize at the 50th and 51st Dokuritsu ‘Sho’ Exhibition
2005 Received a Parliament Building Vice-President Award at Vienna New Century
Court Art Festival held at the Imperial Palace in Innsbruck, Austria
Solo exhibition Assemblage of Lines at Ginza Matsuzaki Gallery
2006 Received a gold prize at Today's Japanese Art Exhibition held at Monaco Festival
2010 Received an excellent prize at the 62nd Mainichi Shodo Exhibition
Group exhibition Core at Hayama Bunkaen
2014 Solo exhibition Thinking of ‘Kukai’ at Ginza Ippodo Salon
Group calligraphy exhibition Issui Kai at Ginza Kyukyodo Gallery
2015 Solo exhibition Art of Lines – Human, and We Live at Ippodo Gallery New York
Solo exhibition Thinking of ‘Zen' at Galerie Landrot Paris
Exhibited at SOFA Chicago
Public Collection:
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, USA)
Phaya Thai Palace Collection, 70th Anniversary of the Reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Thailand)
Newsroom of Fuji Television, Tokyo, Japan
The Embassy of Algeria, Tokyo, Japan
