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Roy Kiyooka (Roy Kenzie Kiyooka) was born on 18 January, 1926 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, is a Canadian painter and poet (1926-1994). Discover Roy Kiyooka's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?

Popular As Roy Kenzie Kiyooka
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Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 18 January 1926
Birthday 18 January
Birthplace Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date of death 1994
Died Place Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality Canada

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1926

Roy Kenzie Kiyooka (January 18, 1926 – January 8, 1994) was a Canadian painter, poet, photographer, arts teacher.

A Nisei, or a second generation Japanese Canadian, Roy Kenzie Kiyooka was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and raised in Calgary, Alberta.

His parents were Harry Shigekiyo Kiyooka and Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka.

1942

In 1942, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the family moved to Opal, Alberta.

1946

From 1946 to 1949, Kiyooka studied with at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art.

1955

In 1955, he studied at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende.

1956

In 1956, Kiyooka began teaching at the Regina College of Art.

1957

From 1957 to 1959, Kiyooka took part in the Emma Lake Artists' Workshops of the University of Saskatchewan, where he worked with famed art American critic Clement Greenberg and abstract expressionist painter Barnett Newman.

1959

He moved to Vancouver in 1959, and began to shift his practice away from painting and towards photography and eventually filmmaking.

1964

Kiyooka used the ellipse form in the Art Gallery of Ontario's Barometer No. 2 (1964).

1965

In 1965, he represented Canada at the Eighth Sao Paulo Biennial.

1969

In 1969, he created the sculpture, Abu Ben Adam’s Vinyl Dream, for the Canadian pavilion at Expo ‘70 in Osaka, Japan.

1971

In 1971-1972 he taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax; he documented his trip across the country to Halifax in the work Long Beach BC to Peggy’s Cove Nova Scotia, which formed part of his 1975 Transcanada Letters.

He also made16 Cedar Laminated Sculpture series, shown alongside the Ottoman/Court Suite of silk-screen prints, at the Bau Xi Gallery in Vancouver in May 1971.

Books published posthumously include:

1973

From 1973 to 1991, he also taught at the Fine Arts Department of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

1975

In 1975, the Vancouver Art Gallery organized a twenty-five-year retrospective of his work.

That same year saw Kiyooka publish his Transcanada Letters, a book project which weaved together photography, his own letters and experimental writing to examine his experience of the nation as a second-generation Japanese-Canadian.

1976

Roy K. Kiyooka: 25 Years (Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC), 21 November-16 December 1976.

1978

In 1978, he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada.

1987

Kiyooka’s Pear Tree Pomes, illustrated by David Bolduc (Coach House Press, 1987), was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award.

While in Japan, he made the StoneDGloves: Alms for Soft Palms photographic series, shown at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.

2005

Roy Kiyooka: Accidental Tourist (Doris McCarthy Gallery, Scarborough, Ont), 17–22 March 2005.

2017

Roy's grandfather on the maternal side, a samurai Ōe Masamichi, was the 17th headmaster of the Musō Jikiden Eishin-ryū school of swordsmanship.

Roy Kiyooka's brother Harry Mitsuo Kiyooka also became an abstract painter, a professor of art, and sometimes a curator of his brother's work.

Roy's youngest brother Frank Kiyooka became a potter.