Michihiro Kosuge was born in Tokyo in 1943 and attended the Tokyo Sumida Technical School of Architecture before moving to the U.S. to study at the San Francisco Art Institute. The artist received a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship in 1982. Today, Kosuge’s works are primarily exhibited in northwestern United States at various commercial galleries. Michihiro Kosuge lives in Portland, Oregon and is Art Department Chair at Portland State University.