Born in Tokyo, Japan, Nobu Fukui is an American citizen, but still identifies as an Asian Modern and Contemporary artist. He currently lives and works in New York.

Upon emigrating to the United States, Fukui studied at the Art Students League in New York City in the mid-1960s.

Although Fukui’s art has evolved over the ensuing decades – and has clearly imbibed many influences from global and American contemporary artistic movements – he still considers himself – in part – an artist who fundamentally began as a product of the revolutionary Gutai Art Association, or Japanese Movement, formed by a group of avant-garde Japanese contemporary artists in 1954.