Nobuo kubota biography of william

Canadian artist (born 1932)

Nobuo KubotaRCA (born 1932) is a Canadian multimedia artist.^[1]

Life

Kubota grew up with a strong Japanese focus in his home and with an early interest in the writings by Jack Kerouac and D.

T. Suzuki. These two factors partially explain his later attraction to Zen Buddhism. During World War II, he was incarcerated with his family in an internment camp for Japanese Canadians.^[2]

Kubota has a degree in architecture from the University of Toronto and practiced architecture for ten years.^[3] As an architect, his interest in Zen Buddhism was reinforced by an attraction to Japanese architecture, which was to have an influence on him later as a sculptor.

He became a sculptor in 1969, showed regularly with the Isaacs Gallery group in Toronto, and is said to have deliberately adopted a Japanese 'look' in his work whereby he alludes to Japanese aesthetics and art.^[4]

When Nobuo Kubota was awarded a C