Heiji Hayashi

Hayashi was born in 1933 and raised in Yokohama, a Japanese city which was influenced by Western civilisation and culture from the middle of the 19th century. Hayashi studied at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, completing his masters degree in 1960. Appointed a member of the Dokuritsu Association in 1962, he then received a scholarship from the Italian government in 1964, enabling him to study under Franco Gentilini at the Accademia Belle Arti di Roma. During his three year stay in Italy, he studied the technique of tempera painting and the works he produced were inclined to geometrical constructions, composed of colourful forms and lines. Upon his return to Japan in 1967, Hayashi was awarded the Dokuritsu G prize and received the New Selected Art Exhibition prize and the Gusho Gendai prize in 1973 and 1982 respectively. Hayashi has exhibited extensively throughout Japan.

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