野田哲也 Tetsuya Noda (b. 1940)
A native of Kumamoto. Starting with the ‘Dairy’ series of wood and silkscreen prints in 1968, Noda won the 6th Grand Prize at the Tokyo International Print Biennale that year, and went on to win prizes at biennales all around the world. He continued to produce dairy series using photographs of daily life. He is a professor emeritus at the Tokyo University of the Arts.