Tadaaki Kuwayama (b. 1932, Nagoya) broke from his traditional Nihonga mineral pigment training soon after he moved from Japan to New York in 1958, following his graduation from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Following his first solo show in 1961 at Green Gallery, he started to make monochromatic and geometric works that marked his role in American Minimalism. The artist has exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the National Museum of Art in Osaka, among other institutions, as well as in several shows at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. His pieces are held in numerous prestigious public collections, including those of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, and the Nationalgalerie in Berlin.