Installation view of Shimijimi: Dyed and Inlaid Textiles by Shigeki Fukumoto at Ippodo Gallery. Photo by Go Sugimoto

Shimijimi: Dyed and Inlaid Textiles by Shigeki Fukumoto
Closing Saturday, June 6, 2026
35 N Moore Street, NYC

Don’t miss the final week of Shimijimi: Dyed and Inlaid Textiles by Shigeki Fukumoto at Ippodo Gallery, closing Saturday, June 6. The acclaimed Japanese textile master’s debut solo exhibition presents more than twenty luminous textile works and folding screens spanning three decades of his distinguished career, showcasing the quiet beauty and refined artistry of dyed Japanese cloth.

Blurring the line between painting and the traditions of Japanese textile, Fukumoto’s unique wax resist (rozome) and cloth inlay (nunozoukan) techniques, using precious Turpan cotton, explore expressions of color, light, and layering within the long-established language of dyeing (senshoku).

Shigeki Fukumoto (b. 1946) provides a philosophy and process that cannot be defined by classical ideas of textile. His sensational dyes permeate beyond the surface of the fabric and sink into the fibers in contrast to the interwoven picture-making of Western textile arts. Fukumoto hails from Kyoto, where textile dyeing is more rich in history and there is a greater density of traditional cloth dyers than anywhere else in Japan. Fukumoto took up the mantle of his family’s kimono dyeing business from the mid 1960s until 1987 after studying oil painting at university. Mastering the strict techniques of wax-resist cloth dyeing—a cultural heritage dating back one-thousand years—Fukumoto began to share his constantly expanding expertise as a professor at Osaka University of Art.

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