Full name
Corin Kumamoto
Title
Printmaker, Illustrator, Painter, Comic Artist
Location
Long Beach, CA
Blurb
I enjoy drawing and printmedia. Painting is also fun. Also I love dogs and cats.
Biography
Corin is an artist from Long Beach, CA. He studied printmedia, including intaglio, silkscreen(serigraphy), stone lithography, photo and relief (woodcut and linoleum), as well as other fine art techniques at the University of California Santa Cruz for a Bachelor in Fine Arts. He also practices digital drawing and painting techniques and has dabbled in photo editing, gif and video making, and animation.
He admires both traditional/fine art as well as commercial art, graphics, and animation.
He is currently completing his Single Subject Teaching Credential for Art at California State University of Long Beach.
Experience
Student Teacher - Art Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced
Long Beach Unified School District
Student Teaching as an High School art teacher to complete a Single Subject Art teaching credential
Curator
Santa Cruz Art League
Planed and curated pop up exhibitions at the beginning of each month. Each show contained various artists and were exhibited in a small gallery space at the Santa Cruz Art League.
Print Studio Monitor
UC Santa Cruz Print Studio
Studio monitor for the Printmedia studio rooms (G101 and F101) in UCSC Art Department. Monitored studio work, assisted students in techniques and practices. Cleaned and stocked parts of the studio.
Teaching Assistant – Print
UC Santa Cruz
Teaching assistant to Professor Jimin Lee in the UCSC art department for various undergraduate printmedia classes.
Education
Art B.A.
University of California Santa Cruz
Completion of all undergraduate Fine Art requirements at UC Santa Cruz.
Focused on traditional print media and painting.
Single Subject Art Credential
CSU Long Beach
Teaching Credential program to teach art as a secondary education teacher.
Sociology minor B.A.
University of California Santa Cruz
Completion of all undergraduate Sociology minor requirements at UC Santa Cruz.
Awards
| 2018 | Irwin Grant Winter 2018 , Irwin Project Grants |
Exhibitions
| 2023 | Single Subject Art Credential Portfolio Night (Group), CSULB Art 2 Building, Long Beach, CA |
| 2019 | Eat the Rich Anthology (Group Anthology), DMs Guild
A group anthology based on 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons, featuring one shots/short stories by various artists and writers. www.eattherichanthology.com |
| 2019 | Friends, Foes and Other Fine Folk (Group Published Anthology), DMs Guild
An anthology based on 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons, creating new characters/npcs to use in game, featuring a variety of writers and artists. |
| 2019 | Long Beach City College Open Studios (Group Exhibition), Long Beach City College Art Department, Long Beach, CA
Serigraphy / Screen Printing |
| 2018 | UCSC Tokyo Geidai Moku Hanga (Group Exhibition), Tokyo Geidai (University of the Arts), 12-８ Uenokoen, Taitō, Tokyo 110-8714, Japan
Printmedia, Moku Hanga (Japanese Woodblock) |
| 2018 | Spotlight – Corin Kumamoto (Solo Exhibition), Spotlight Gallery, Santa Cruz Art League, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060
Mixed Printmedia show (Intaglio, Lithography, Woodcut Relief, Serigraphy/Silkscreen) |
| 2018 | Open Studios Spring (Group Exhibition), UC Santa Cruz Art Department, UC Santa Cruz
Printmedia, Lithography |
| 2018 | Made in (Asian) America(n) (Group Exhibition), Santa Cruz Art League, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060
Participating Artist, Curator |
| 2018 | Lineage (Solo Exhibition), Eduardo Carrillo Gallery, UC Santa Cruz
Senior Gallery Show |
| 2018 | State of Being (Group Exhibition), Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, California
Curator |
| 2018 | In the Night (Solo Exhibition), E. Baskin Window Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
Paint series |
| 2018 | Open Studios Winter (Group Exhibition), UC Santa Cruz Art Department, UC Santa Cruz
Painting, Figure Drawing, Illustration |
| 2018 | Women by Women (Group Exhibition), Santa Cruz Art League, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060
Curator |
| 2017 | Open Studios Fall (Group Exhibition), UC Santa Cruz Art Department, UC Santa Cruz
Printmedia, Intaglio |
| 2017 | Open Studios Spring (Group Exhibition), UC Santa Cruz Art Department, UC Santa Cruz
Printmedia, Woodcut relief, photo intaglio |
| 2017 | Open Studios Winter (Group Exhibition), UC Santa Cruz Art Department, UC Santa Cruz
Printmedia, Photography |
| 2016 | Open Studios Fall (Group Exhibition), UC Santa Cruz Art Department, UC Santa Cruz
Sculpture |
| 2016 | Open Studios Spring (Group Exhibition), UC Santa Cruz Art Department, UC Santa Cruz
Printmedia |
| 2015 | Open Studios Fall (Group Exhibition), UC Santa Cruz Art Department, UC Santa Cruz
Photography |
| 2015 | Open Studios Spring (Group Exhibition), UC Santa Cruz Art Department, Santa Cruz, CA
Digital Art, Animation, Video Processing |
| 2015 | Open Studios Winter (Group Exhibition), UC Santa Cruz Art Department, Santa Cruz, CA
Drawing, Illustration, Paint |
Specialties
Illustration, Ink, Paint, Drawing, Printmaking
Skills
Photoshop, Oil Paints, Water Color, Photo Based Print, Relief, Metal Fabrication, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Digital Paint/Drawing, Lightroom, Photography, Inking, Illustration, Costume Repair, Paint Tool Sai, Gimp, HTML, CSS, JQuery, Javascript, Photo Manipulation, Woodwork, Drypoint, Monotype, Intaglio, Silkscreen, Illustrator