Shinzaburo Takeda

Shinzaburo Takeda is a Japanese-Mexican painter and printmaker. He is considered one of Oaxaca's most important artists. Takeda has lived in Mexico for over fifty years and trained several generations of Mexican artists, many of them indigenous Zapotecs and Mixtecs. He previously worked as a painter and graphic artist for the Museo Nacional de las Culturas. Since 1980 Takeda has been chair of the Department of Art at the Universidad Autónoma "Benito Juárez" de Oaxaca. The Bienal Nacional de Artes Gráficas Shinzaburo Takeda (National Biennale of Graphic Arts Shinzaburo Takeda) is held in his honor.