page_title: Roger Shimomura
hierarchical_section_title: Roger Shimomura
caption_attribution_description: English: Artist Roger Shimomura attending the opening of Yellow Terror, a museum show of his work and of items from his collections, Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, Washington.
context_page_description: Roger Shimomura is an American artist and a retired professor at the University of Kansas Lawrence, having taught there from 1969 to 2004. His art, showcased across the United States, Japan, Canada, Mexico, and Israel, often combines American popular culture, traditional Asian tropes, and stereotypical racial imagery to provoke thought and debate on issues of identity and social perception.
  He is represented by the Flomenhaft Gallery, New York City, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Eight Modern Gallery, Santa Fe, and Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Kansas City.
context_section_description: Roger Shimomura (born Roger Yutaka Shimomura in 1939 in Seattle) is an American artist and a retired professor at the University of Kansas Lawrence, having taught there from 1969 to 2004. His art, showcased across the United States, Japan, Canada, Mexico, and Israel, often combines American popular culture, traditional Asian tropes, and stereotypical racial imagery to provoke thought and debate on issues of identity and social perception.
  He is represented by the Flomenhaft Gallery, New York City, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Eight Modern Gallery, Santa Fe, and Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Kansas City.
caption: Shimomura in 2009
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