Keiko Hara
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Hara was born in North Korea and raised in Yamaguchi prefecture Japan. After studying at Gendai Art School, Tokyo, and Oita-Kenritsu Art College, Oita, Hara earned her BFA Degree in painting at Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, Mississippi. She is a Professor Emeritus of Art from Whitman College. With over thirteen one-person exhibitions to her credit since 1976 (North America & Europe), Hara has also been included in numerous invitational group exhibitions throughout the United States.
Among museums that include Hara's work in their permanent collections are the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Charles A. Wustum Museum, WI, the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Muskegon Art Museum, MI. Hara has been awarded grants from the Washington State Centennial Commission of Washington/Pacific Cultural Connections at Centrium (1989), and Artpark, NY (1983), and the AKP Teaching Fellowship (1987). In 1984, she won the Philadelphia Print Exhibition Selection Award and in 1976, the first prize in the Michigan Print & Drawing Exhibition, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI.
Among museums that include Hara's work in their permanent collections are the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Charles A. Wustum Museum, WI, the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Muskegon Art Museum, MI. Hara has been awarded grants from the Washington State Centennial Commission of Washington/Pacific Cultural Connections at Centrium (1989), and Artpark, NY (1983), and the AKP Teaching Fellowship (1987). In 1984, she won the Philadelphia Print Exhibition Selection Award and in 1976, the first prize in the Michigan Print & Drawing Exhibition, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI.