Lillian Wies wins 2023 Chino Kaori Memorial Essay Prize
November 05, 2023
Lily is the first writing about Japanese art outside of Japan to win this award!
Lillian "Lily" Wies is one of two recipients of this year's Chino Kaori Memorial Essay Prize. The Japan Art History Forum’s Chino Kaori Memorial Essay Prize recognizes outstanding graduate student scholarship in Japanese art history. The prize was established in 2003 in memory of a distinguished colleague Chino Kaori, and is awarded annually to the best research paper written in English on a Japanese art history topic.
According to the announcement of the award from the Japan Art History Forum "Wies’s thoughtful and well-researched paper explores Shima Seien’s (1892-1970) Untitled self portrait of 1918 as an act of resistance to misogyny Shima experienced as a female artist. In her paper, Wies makes strong use of existing scholarship and careful visual analysis in comparison with other paintings to offer an argument that by subverting bijinga ideals, Shima resists standard tropes of female painters to craft her own identity."
Congratulations Lily!