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Naoko Matsubara was born in 1937 in Tokushima, Japan. She graduated in 1960 from the Kyoto Academy of Fine Arts and then, on a Fulbright Foundation scholarship, pursued postgraduate studies at the Carnagie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. He then attended the Royal Academy of Art in London and returned to Japan in 1963. In 1965 he moved to the United States, where he lived for seven years and worked initially as an assistant to Professor Fritz Eichenberg. She taught at the Pratt Institute of Graphic Arts in New York and at the University of Rhode Island before settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1962 she moved to Canada and set up her studio in Oakville, Ontario. Throughout her artistic career she produced a large series of prints - mostly woodcuts - paintings and murals. In addition to her artistic work, she taught at universities and art schools, gave seminars and lectures, and wrote many essays and essays on art. Her works can be found in public collections in the USA, Japan, Australia, Germany, Great Britain and other countries.