About the Artist

Born in rural Japan, Michio Takayama chose to reside in Taos, New Mexico for the greater portion of his adult life. His sensitively layered abstract paintings have a look unto themselves. They are thoughtful using either subtle nuances of color or bold, bombastic applications of pigment. Museum and some private collections that contain works by Michio Takayama include the following: Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico Harwood Museum, Taos, New Mexico Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York Roswell Museum, Roswell, New Mexico U. S. Bancorp (formerly Midland Savings Bank) Chiba Prefectural Art Museum, Chiba, Japan Saitama Prefectural Modern Art Museum, Urawa City, Japan