Chizuru Morii Kaplan
Biography
Japanese-born Chizuru Morii Kaplan is a painter who now resides in New York City. For two and a half decades, after studying architectural and interior design in Tokyo, she worked as a freelance architectural renderer in Tokyo, Chicago and New York for such renowned clients as I.M. Pei, Edward Larrabee Barnes, Junzo Sakakura Assoc. and Antonio Raymond Assoc.
In 2007, Chizuru Morii Kaplan studied watercolor with Paul Ching-Bor at the Art Student League of NY, and she subsequently won a fellowship from the League for study at the Paris American Academy. Chizuru has won numerous awards and her paintings have been exhibited in New York City at The National Arts Club Gallery, the Salmagundi Club, the Bertrand Delacroix Gallery as well as at the Springfield Art Museum in Springfield, MO. She is currently represented by the Hubert Gallery and Eckert Fine Art in Manhattan.
Her work has been repeatedly featured in SPLASH, The Best of Watercolor, and in The Artist’s Magazine. In the October 2014 issue of Watercolor Artist Magazine, the critic Sarah A. Strickley wrote that, “Painting from dark to light with nary a hard edge in sight, Chizuru Morii Kaplan breaks with tradition to bring out the best qualities of watercolor in her surprisingly detailed architectural paintings.”
CHIZURU MORII KAPLAN
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2016 - Muse: Anderson Contemporary, New York, NY
2016 - Art on Paper: through Eckert Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY
2015 - The Veiled Image: (Solo Show) Hubert Gallery, New York, NY
2015 - Works on Paper: Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York, NY
2015 - Winter Collective: Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York, NY
2015 - Figure and Ground: Hubert Gallery, New York, NY2015 - From Color to Light: Art345 Gallery, New York, NY
2015 - Art Market San Francisco: through Eckert Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 - Hubert Gallery, New York, NY
2014 - Watercolor USA: Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
2014 - Salmagundi Club Gallery, New York, NY
2013 - Allied Artists of America: National Arts Club Gallery, New York, NY
2013 - Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Exhibition: National Arts Club Gallery, New York, NY
2012 - Watercolor USA: Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
2012 - American Watercolor Society: The Salmagundi Club Gallery, New York, NY
2012 - Allied Artists of America: National Arts Club Gallery, New York, NY
2011 - Watercolor USA: Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
2011 - Grant Winners Exhibition; Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY
2011 - Allied Artists of America: National Arts Club Gallery, New York, NY
2010 - Watercolor USA: Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
2010 - Allied Artists of America: National Arts Club Gallery, New York, NY
2010 - Expression in Watercolor: Publicis Communications, New York, NY
2010 - Paris American Academy Summer Show, Paris, France
2009 - Allied Artists of America: National Arts Club Gallery, New York, NY
2009 - Merit Scholarship Recipients Exhibition: Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY
2008 - Watercolor USA: Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
2008 - Allied Artists of America: National Arts Club Gallery, New York, NY
