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American painter (born 1947)

Hiroki Morinoue (born 1947, Japanese: ヒロキ モリノーエ) is an American visual artist, of Japanese descent. His artwork fuses western Impressionism with modern Japanese design. Morinoue lives in Holualoa, on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Early life and education

Morinoue was born in 1947,^[1] in Kealakekua and raised near Holualoa, formerly a major coffee plantation town in the mountains above Kailua-Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Hiroki Morinoue - Studio 7 Fine Arts

Japanese workers were imported from Japan at the turn of the 20th century to Hawaii to work the plantations. Although the coffee plantations are gone, Holualoa remains a major producer and exporter of Kona coffee from a cooperative of private growers. In addition, a large artist colony has taken hold in the town itself.

Morinoue studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) in Oakland, California, where he received his BFA degree in 1973.^[1] La Hiroki Morinoue - Shark's Ink GEKUM