Shigeki Tomura

Shigeki Tomura (born 1951, Hachinohe, Japan) graduated from Iwate University. He exhibited with the Kokuga Association from 1973 to 1975 and has concentrated on printmaking since 1984.

Tomura works in etching and drypoint as well as watercolour. His prints address natural landscapes, with trees, woodland and changing light among their subjects. His exlibris were brought together in a catalogue covering the years 1984 to 2016.

He received honorary medals at the sixth and seventh International Small Graphic Forms exhibitions in Łódź in 1989 and 1991, and the Grand Prix at the second International Exlibris Triennial in Bratislava in 1998. His work has been exhibited in Japan and internationally, including a solo exhibition at Toki-no-Wasuremono in Tokyo in October 2026. He lives in Morioka.