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Kazuhiko Sano was born in 1952 in tokyo, Japan. After studying oil painting in Tokyo, he moved to San Francisco in 1975, to attend the Academy of Art College majoring in illustration.
Kazu has worked for a wide range of media from book covers to movie posters, annual reports, postal stamps, scientific illustrations, and limited edition prints. His clients include ABC, American Express, American Red Cross, AOL/Time Warner, AT&T, Bank of America, Chevron, CocaCola, Der Spiegel, General Electric, IBM, Lucasfilm, MGM.UA, NBC, National Geographic Society, Oracle Corporation, Paramount Pictures, Reader's Digest, United Airlines, United States Postal Service, Universal/MCA, Visa, and the Walt Disney Company. His works have been exhibited widely from New York to San Francisco, but most notable his retrospective shows in Tokyo in 2000, "Retrospective: 1980-2000", and in 2001, "Sketches of Europe", both toured Japan and enabled the publication of his first book, "Retrospective 1980-2000 / The Art of Kazuhiko Sano". Other exhibits include the American Museum of Illustration in New York City in 1996, and in Tokyo at the Central Museum in 1992. His works have been shown regularly in the Society of Illustrators annual exhibits in New York and Los Angeles. He has received numerous awards including the Gold medal from the San Francisco Society of Illustrators and the Patrick Nagel award from the Los Angeles Society in 1992. Kazu teaches illustration at the Academy of Art College and lives in Mill Valley, California, with his wife, Chisako, and their two children. www.kazusano.com |
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