Ryosuke Cohen
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Ryosuke Cohen (幸円 良介 Kōen Ryōsuke?, born 1948, Osaka, Japan) is an internationally known mail artist.[citation needed] He was responsible for the Brain Cell mail art project, which he began in June of 1985 and retains thousands of members in more than 80 countries. In August 2001 he began the Fractal Portrait Project. He has taught art to school children for more than 25 years.
Cohen discovered mail art through the Canadian artist Byron Black. Early work by Cohen is a mixture of traditional Japanese imagery, contemporary icons, and numbers, as well as his signature, the letter "C".
Cohen's family name is conventionally romanized as Kōen, but on the advice of a friend, he adopted the English spelling 'Cohen'. He is not a Kohen.
