Hiroko Seki
I have come to sumi ink art through work as a professional kimono painter in Tokyo who moved USA and was inspired by Northwest environments. Nature here fills me with appreciation. I like to express this in terms of what I think of as "themes." My innovations of sumi, soy, and dye combinations connect nature and us.
Exhibitions/Collections
2018~
• National juried exhibition on Gold, selected by Keith Lewis and Tariqa Waters, Gallery One,
Ellensburg, WA
• "Duets" Hiroko Seki (sumie) and Louise Durocher (monotype) Show, Women Painters
Gallery, Seattle, WA
2016~2017
• Best of Show Award juried by Melissa Weinman, Childhood's End Gallery, Olympia, WA
• Best of Show Award juried by Artist Trust president Pablo Schugurensky, Art of the Port,
Anacortes, WA
• Eve Deisher Memorial Award selected by Lanny Bergner, Anacortes, WA
• Collect Purchase Award for Anacortes High School, WA
• Thread-Historial Perspective Show, WPW Gallery, Seattle, WA
• Women Artists Coast to Coast East, juror Patricia Rovzar, Prince Street Gallery, New York,
NY
• Sumi painting show. Leidschendam, Netherlands
• Coast to Coast West, Praise from juror Deborah Paine and reviews Gayle Clemans, Seattle
Times, Seattle, WA
• Yvonne Twining First Place Award by juror Cappy Thompson, Women's Work Show, Bellevue
Art Museum Community Gallery, Bellevue WA
2014~2015
• Seattle Arboretum Show. Seattle WA
• Book publication and Sumie Show, Azuma Gallery, Seattle WA
• Elsie Weiner and Puget Sound Awards, Scott Milo Gallery, Anacortes WA
• Sumi Demonstration with Publication, Burke Museum, Seattle WA
• Contribution Sumi Demonstration for Audubon Society, Seattle WA
• "Forty-Six Views of Montlake Fill" Publication Exhibition, UW Urban Horticulture, Seattle WA
2009~2013
• Three Women "Issei" Artists Exhibition, juror June Sekiguchi, Seattle, WA
• Sumie Exhibition, Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection, curator David De Groot, Federal Way, WA
• The Heron's Nest Haiku book cover Award, Nassau, NY
• Sumie and Nihonga Exhibition, Weyerhaeuser Bonsai Collection. Federal Way, WA
• Nihonga Byobu Exhibition, Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA
• Sumie and Nihonga Exhibition at BoConcepts, Seattle, WA
• Nihonga display at the Henredon & Schoener Lincoln Square, Bellevue, WA
• Booz Allen Hamilton purchase collection, Seattle, WA
I have come to sumi ink art through work as a professional kimono painter in Tokyo who moved USA and was inspired by Northwest environments. Nature here fills me with appreciation. I like to express this in terms of what I think of as "themes." My innovations of sumi, soy, and dye combinations connect nature and us.
Exhibitions/Collections
2018~
• National juried exhibition on Gold, selected by Keith Lewis and Tariqa Waters, Gallery One,
Ellensburg, WA
• "Duets" Hiroko Seki (sumie) and Louise Durocher (monotype) Show, Women Painters
Gallery, Seattle, WA
2016~2017
• Best of Show Award juried by Melissa Weinman, Childhood's End Gallery, Olympia, WA
• Best of Show Award juried by Artist Trust president Pablo Schugurensky, Art of the Port,
Anacortes, WA
• Eve Deisher Memorial Award selected by Lanny Bergner, Anacortes, WA
• Collect Purchase Award for Anacortes High School, WA
• Thread-Historial Perspective Show, WPW Gallery, Seattle, WA
• Women Artists Coast to Coast East, juror Patricia Rovzar, Prince Street Gallery, New York,
NY
• Sumi painting show. Leidschendam, Netherlands
• Coast to Coast West, Praise from juror Deborah Paine and reviews Gayle Clemans, Seattle
Times, Seattle, WA
• Yvonne Twining First Place Award by juror Cappy Thompson, Women's Work Show, Bellevue
Art Museum Community Gallery, Bellevue WA
2014~2015
• Seattle Arboretum Show. Seattle WA
• Book publication and Sumie Show, Azuma Gallery, Seattle WA
• Elsie Weiner and Puget Sound Awards, Scott Milo Gallery, Anacortes WA
• Sumi Demonstration with Publication, Burke Museum, Seattle WA
• Contribution Sumi Demonstration for Audubon Society, Seattle WA
• "Forty-Six Views of Montlake Fill" Publication Exhibition, UW Urban Horticulture, Seattle WA
2009~2013
• Three Women "Issei" Artists Exhibition, juror June Sekiguchi, Seattle, WA
• Sumie Exhibition, Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection, curator David De Groot, Federal Way, WA
• The Heron's Nest Haiku book cover Award, Nassau, NY
• Sumie and Nihonga Exhibition, Weyerhaeuser Bonsai Collection. Federal Way, WA
• Nihonga Byobu Exhibition, Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA
• Sumie and Nihonga Exhibition at BoConcepts, Seattle, WA
• Nihonga display at the Henredon & Schoener Lincoln Square, Bellevue, WA
• Booz Allen Hamilton purchase collection, Seattle, WA
