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Photo: Dan Wayne

Roger Shimomura
Born 1939 in Seattle, WA
Lives and works in Lawrence, KS
Untitled, 1984
acrylic paint on canvas
60 1/2 x 72 1/4 inches
Museum Purchase, Enid and Crosby Kemper and William T. Kemper Acquisition Fund
2000.13
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Through most of his career, Shimomura has combined Pop Art imagery with Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock print imagery to suggest the inherent conflicts of multiple identities. Born in Seattle during WWII, he is a sansei, or third-generation Japanese-American. Like many other Japanese-American families, his family was interned during the war. This painting combines Shimomura’s childhood influences of comic book heroes such as Superman, with Japanese figures to expose and examine stereotypes of both cultures.