Jun SHIRASU received Joana Abranches Pinto Prize from Portuguese embassy for his contribution on cultural exchange between Portugal and Japan for long period.

Shirasu was born in 1965, and graduated from Musashino Art University, and completed the higher diploma of fine art in The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. The artist website: http://shirasstudio.blogspot.com.

His solo exhibition is currently being held at ART BASE 1 in Macau by February 20, and you can see his activity by more than 200 of his past works exhibited there. The website of ART BASE 1: http://www.artbase1.org.mo

Apology: on the news article with the same title published on January 11, there was wrong information on the image’s credit and a part of the text. We apologize to all the relative people for the mistakes.