JOSHUA ROME is an American who lived with his family for 25 years in a small hamlet in the hills near Kyoto/Japan chronicling the life of his rural neighbors. he was born in Hartford,CT, USA.
His teachers were Clifton Karhu and Kuroda Kenkichi. In 1998 Joshua Rome and his family returned to the U.S.A. and now live in Vermont.
Joshua Rome is an internationally established and renowned artist whose works are in major museums and who is represented by top galleries like Yoseido in Tokyo, Verne Collection, Ren Brown Collection, Ronin Gallery and Azuma Gallery.
In October 2005 Joshua Rome exhibited at the prestigious CWAJ Show in Tokyo for the 21st year.
The following text is from the artist's official resume.
"Born in 1953 the adopted son of Broadway composer - lyricist Harold Rome, Joshua Rome was exposed to the arts from an early age.At the age of twenty - one, Rome made his way to Japan with the hopes of studying Japanese cabinetry.
However he met the woodblock artist Clifton Karhu, who befriended Rome and took him on as an apprentice.
At first Rome was more interested in carving of the blocks but during three years of apprenticeship he gained an appreciation for color and paper.
When his apprenticeship ended Rome continued his studies for another three years at the home of Kuroda Kenkichi the son of Kuroda Tatsuaki, national treasure of lacquer and cabinetry.
But it was woodblock printing that had grasped his imagination and so for twenty years Joshua Rome lived in the rural mountains of Japan about an hour from Kyoto, creating landscapes of a society in transition.
Rome is well established with more than seventy-five successful solo shows at premier galleries throughout Japan as well as being an annual contributor to the college Women's Association of Japan show, the best cross-section of all print mediums in the Japanese print world.
Rome has also had numerous solo shows in New York, Cleveland and San Francisco. Joshua and his family returned from japan in 1998 and now live in Vermont, USA".
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
. Library of Congress, Washington D.C., USA
. British Museum, London England.( 'A thatch boat' is the work hanging here, we only discovered this after we purchased it !)
. James A Mitchener Collection, Hawaii, USA
. New York Public Library, NewYork, USA
. Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
. Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA, USA