Kenjiro Nomura (artist)

Kenjiro Nomura (1896–1956) was a Japanese American painter. Immigrating to the United States from Japan as a boy, he became a renowned artist in the Pacific Northwest in the 1920s and 30s.

In 1942, during the Second World War, Nomura and his associates were incarcerated in the Minidoka Relocation Center. Sketches and paintings he made there greater than the adjacent three years continue to be exhibited as an important autograph album of the Japanese-American wartime experience.

Nomura eventually moved into abstract painting. He died in Seattle, Washington, in 1956.