SDSU School of Art, Design, and Art History

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Hiroko Johnson's Biography

Hiroko Johnson specializes in Japanese art history. She was born in Japan and received the majority of her graduate work in art history from the university in Japan. She received her Ph. D. from University of Southern California. Her dissertation was on Western influence on Japanese art. Numerous articles from her dissertation on Akita Ranga, Western-inspired art school, have been published both in English and Japanese. Her MA degree in art history was from California State University, Northridge. Her Master's thesis was on Ito Jakuchu, an artist from the 18th century. From her MA thesis, articles on Jakuchu's Birds, Animals and Flowers was published in the most prestigious art journal in Japan Kokka, and Shen Nanpin and His Circle Theory was published in the University of Tokyo art journals in Japan. She is a recipient of the Kajima Art Foundation for Research Fund, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Kagaku Kenkyu (Kaken) from the Ministry of Education in Japan, and Ukiyo-e ?ta Memorial Museum of Art. She did her Post Doctorate Fellowship at the University of Tokyo. She has organized a panel and presented papers at AAS as well as at the International Conferences. She curated a traveling exhibition commemorating the 150th Anniversary of Commodore Perry's Visit to Japan. She is a Board Member of the Japanese Friendship Garden in charge of Cultural programs, and has curated numerous exhibitions for the Japanese Friendship Garden. She is now working on the Ukiyo-e exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art. She has published books, Western Influences on Japanese Art: the Akita Ranga Art School and Foreign Books in 2005 and co-authored in Dreams and Diversions in 2010.