miyuke tanobe

Miyuki Tanobe, born in 1937 in Morioka, Japan, is a painter who has lived in Montreal since 1971. Trained at the Tokyo University of the Arts and later at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, she works in the nihonga style, a traditional Japanese painting technique that she adapts to depict everyday life in Montreal. Her meticulously detailed canvases combine vivid colors and narrative richness, portraying with humor and warmth the character of working-class neighborhoods. Tanobe often focuses on simple gestures, lively streets, and children at play, while retaining the decorative depth of Japanese artistic tradition. She has received numerous awards, exhibited widely in Canada and abroad, and her work is held in major public and private collections. She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.