About Michio Fukuoka
Lived 1936 – 2023 (aged 86–87). Michio Fukuoka was a Japanese sculptor.
Michio Fukuoka ( Fukuoka Michio; 1936 – 15 November 2023) was a Japanese sculptor.
Biography Born in Sakai in 1936, Fukuoka was a professor of fine arts at Kansai University. He began his career in the 1950s by making plaster casts of holes he had dug in sand. In the 1960s, he created a series of sculptures resembling balloons floating in the air.
Fukuoka died on 15 November 2023, at the age of 87.
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Japanese sculptor
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Michio Fukuoka was born in 1936 in Sakai.
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Michio Fukuoka died on 15 November 2023.
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Michio Fukuoka was a sculptor.
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