List of origamists explained

An origamist or an origamian is a person who is associated with the art of origami. Some notable origamists / origamians are:

A

• Jay Ansill – composer and folk musician who also wrote The Origami Sourcebook

C

• Mel Cowley - British Origamist working in the UK. In 2014 founded The Little Paper Flower Shop . Creates original Origami Flower Bouquets and uses Origami Paper Cranes as symbols of Good Luck & Long Life in much of her work

D

• Martin Demaine and Erik Demaine – father-and-son team who manipulate flat paper into swirling forms.^[1]

E

• Peter Engel – author of several origami books including Origami from Angelfish to Zen, 10-Fold Origami: Fabulous Paperfolds You Can Make in Just 10 Steps!, and Origami Odyssey

F

• Tomoko Fuse (布施 知子) – famous for boxes and unit origami^[2]

G

• Ilan Garibi – Israeli origami artist and designer
• Alice Gray – co-founder of the non-profit Friends of the Origami Center in New York

H

• Robert Harbin – popularised origami in Britain; also presented a series of short programmes entitled Origami, made by Thames Television for ITV
• Jacob Hashimoto – created a large-scale paper mobile at Mary Boone Gallery^[3]
• David A. Huffman – American electrical engineer
• Tom Hull – American mathematics professor
• Humiaki Huzita – formulated the first six of the Huzita–Hatori axioms

J

• Eric Joisel – French wet-folder renowned for his lifelike masks, including those of fellow origami enthusiasts

K

• Satoshi Kamiya – one of the youngest geniuses of the origami field (born 1981)
• Kunihiko Kasahara – devised a standardized method for creating many modular polyhedra
• Toshikazu Kawasaki – Japanese mathematician famous for his Iso-area folding theory and his many geometric folds, including Kawasaki's "Rose"
• Marc Kirschenbaum – known for his instrumentalist designs

L

• Robert J. Lang – author of many Origami books including the new benchmark Origami Design Secrets; formerly a laser physicist at NASA before quitting in 2001 and committing to origami full-time^{[4] [5]}
• David Lister – founding member of the British Origami Society

M

• Sipho Mabona – Swiss and South African origami master^[6] who created a life-size elephant from a single piece of paper.
• Jun Maekawa – software engineer, mathematician, and origami artist known for popularizing the method of utilizing crease patterns in designing origami models
• Matthew T. Mason – American roboticist who developed the first origami folding robot, demonstrating advances in difficult manipulation tasks
• Ligia Montoya – Argentine paper-folder who played a crucial role in establishing paper-folding as an international movement
• John Montroll – probably the most prolific Western artist and author of over 40 books on origami
• Jeannine Mosley – best known for her origami models created from business cards,^[7] including the Menger Sponge. She has developed mathematical techniques for designing and analyzing curved origami models.

O

• Lillian Rose Vorhaus Kruskal Oppenheimer – American origami pioneer whose birthday (October 24) is one of the World Origami Days. ^[8]

R

• Samuel Randlett – helped design and popularize the Yoshizawa-Randlett diagramming system
• Nick Robinson – professional origami artist and author of over one hundred books on origami

S

• James Sakoda – author of Modern Origami
• Jeremy Shafer – professional entertainer and origamist based in Berkeley, California
• Srirangaraj - professional origamian based in Bengaluru, India

T

• Florence Temko – pioneer in spreading origami in the United States
• Norio Torimoto – Japanese origami artist based in Sweden since the 1970s

U

• Kōshō Uchiyama – Sōtō priest, origami master, and abbot of Antai-ji near Kyoto, Japan, and author of more than twenty books on Zen Buddhism and origami
• Miguel de Unamuno – Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher who devised many new models and popularized origami in Spain and South America.

Y

• Makoto Yamaguchi – Chairperson of Origami House
• Akira Yoshizawa – reinvented modern origami and created the modern repertoire of folding symbols

Notes and References

1. Web site: 11 Cutting-Edge Origami Artists Who Are Masters of Paper Folding. 2017-04-05. My Modern Met. en. 2020-03-27.
2. Web site: artists Folding Paper Japanese American National Museum. www.janm.org. 2020-03-27.
3. Web site: 8 Artists Pushing Origami To The Extreme. Callahan. Sophia. 2014-10-16. Vice. en. 2020-03-27.
4. An Origami Artist Shows How to Fold Ultra-Realistic Creatures. Wired. 2020-03-27. en. 1059-1028.
5. Web site: Robert J. Lang Origami. TASON. Robert J. Lang Origami. en. 2020-03-27.
6. Web site: www.mabonaorigami.com: startseite. www.mabonaorigami.com. 2020-03-27.
7. Web site: Math Unfolded: A series of presentations on the mathematics of origami – National Museum of Mathematics. en-US. 2020-03-27.
8. Web site: World Origami Days. 2012-02-01. Origami USA World Origami Days. en-US. 2020-12-11.