The 70th
CWAJ Print Show
Coming in 2027
Planning is well underway for next year’s 70th CWAJ Print Show. Since 1956 our annual show, created by dedicated women volunteers, has supported and documented the development of post-war Japanese prints for audiences in Japan and beyond. This acclaimed open-call exhibition and sale introduces the latest contemporary Japanese prints. For seven decades, proceeds have funded CWAJ scholarships and education programs.
Hillside Forum, Daikanyama
October 14–17, 2027
Online Gallery
October 19–24, 2027
The 70th CWAJ Print Show
The 70th Show will have two components.
“The 70th CWAJ Print Show Commemorative Grand Prize Exhibition” will be a public competition featuring 70 works selected by a jury. The Grand Prize winner will receive Â¥700,000, while three Excellence Award winners will each receive Â¥50,000. For more information please click here.
The second, “Koki: A 70 year Legacy, The 70th CWAJ Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Prints”, will be a retrospective, showcasing valuable works by significant artists who have exhibited with CWAJ over the past 70 years.
Artist-in-Residence Program
Following a long tradition of CWAJ supporting printmakers, we have opened applications for a 2027 artist-in-residence placement for a Japanese artist in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. For more information click here.
Digital Archive Project
Responding to increasing requests from researchers, a digital Print Show archive is being created. The initial task will be to digitize all 70 Print Show catalogues. The early catalogues are frail and rare; this work will secure them for future generations. The Tokyo Club recently awarded CWAJ a ¥2,000,000 grant to support this project.
Print Show Catalogue Covers
Two-million-yen grant awarded to CWAJ by The Tokyo Club
Yoko Moscowitz, CWAJ President
21 September 2026
CWAJ has been awarded a 2-million-yen grant by The Tokyo Club. This money will help fund the creation of a digital archive that will contain copies of all CWAJ Print Show catalogues.
A related educational symposium to launch the archive, featuring both Japanese and international print specialists, will be held around the time of the 70th Print Show next year. Extensive research on the criteria to be used for an international-standard archive and the process to create it has already been completed, and the huge task of scanning catalogues will start immediately.
The digital archive is a means of preserving, for the next generation, the record of seventy years of CWAJ Print Shows and the influence they have had on the world of Japanese printmaking. Our special thanks go to The Tokyo Club for this generous grant for supporting this important initiative.