MASATOYO KISHI
Painter

His paintings of the early 1960s were in a spare, elegant, gestural vein of Abstract Expressionism. He shared a painting studio at 1458 Broadway (San Francisco) for some time with James Weeks and John Saccaro.
- Thomas Albright, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980

Selected Exhibitions
International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1961; Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, 1963, 1965; Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1967; Fifth Winter Invitational, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1964; Annual Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1965; John Bolles Collection, Oakland Museum, 1972; Japanese Artists in America, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, 1973.