Rentas Sempadan - School of the Arts, USM

Naomi Hashimoto (Japan) was born in Tokyo, Japan. Graduated from Tama Art University, Japan,
studied graphic design and lithography and took BA. Participated in a Workshop on Reduction Woodcut
Printmaking with Professor Karen Kunc, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, U.S.A at St. Reparata, Florence,
Italy, summer 1999. Have personal exhibitons several times mostly in Tokyo, Japan. Participated in international
exhibitions such as Grafinnova '98 (Vaasa, Finland), Mini print International CADAQUES (Spain),
International Biennale of Miniature Art (Serbia and Montenegro) and others.
Oscar Jay Gillespie (USA). Professor of Art at Bradley University, Illinois. BFA from Northern Arizona
University. MFA in Printmaking from Arizona State University. Founding Coordinator and Printer of
Cradle Oak Press, University of Bradley. Participated in numerous exhibitions in the USA and abroad.
Matthew J. Egan ( United Arab Emirates). He was born in Canada, and recently taught printmaking for
several years in the United Arab Emirates where he was an Assistant Professor of Foundations and Design
at American University of Sharjah. He earned a MFA from the University of South Dakota and a BFA from
the University of Windsor. One of his main areas of interest and research is forging opportunities and links
between Eastern and Western image-making traditions and practices through an attempt to identify with
cultural and social issues relating to both individual nations and the wider narratives of the eastern and
western hemispheres.
Rahman Mohamed (Malaysia). Please see his bio in Emission Portfolio.
Tongchai Yukantapornpong (Thailand). He was born in Bangkok in 1960. In the year 1981, Thongchai
graduated in the College of Fine Arts in Bangkok. Received B.F.A. in Graphic Arts in 1985 and M.F.A in
Graphic Arts in 2002 both in Silpakorn University, Bangkok. As the Art Instructor in Printmaking,
Department of Printmaking Painting and Sculpture in the Faculty of Arts, Chiang Mai University,
Thongchai has participated in many exhibitions like the 48th and 49th National Exhibition of Arts at the
National Gallery in Bangkok as well as plenty solo exhibitions such as exhibitions in the A.C.S Gallery
Nagoya, Japan and in the Twain Tippetts Exhibition Hall, Utah State University, USA. Also, is the award
winner of the 13th Toshiba "Brings Good Things to Life" Art Competition.
Todd Christensen (USA). He is from Las Vegas, USA attended Utah State University from 1999-2001. He
also has attended University of Arizona to do his MFA. He has worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant
and Adjunct Faculty both in the University of Arizona. In 2005, he had participated in three exhibitions
which is the Hereditary Anxieties (solo show) in Burris Hall Gallery, Las Vegas, the '18th Annual El Ancon
Show' in Ribera and the 'Wild West Sideshow Adventure', Mangere Community Arts Outreach Gallery
Manukau, New Zealand. He has participated with many invitational portfolio exchange such as the
Frogman Press 2001 Portfolio and Second Intermountain Invitational Print Portfolio.
Stefania Missio (Italy)