Kitaoka Fumio (北岡 文雄, 1918 – April 23, 2007) was a Japanese artist.
While in Manchuria, he became interested in contemporary social-realist Chinese monochrome prints, and was inspired to create his 1947 print series Sōkokue no tabi ("Repatriation"), chronicling his difficult journey home to Japan.
[1] After his return, he began to attend evening classes with the influential Sōsaku-hanga artist Kōshirō Onchi, and joined his group, the First Thursday Society (一木会, Ichimokukai).
The Sōsaku-hanga movement advocated artistic creation as originating from the self, and promoted expressing emotions through woodblock print art.
[1] In 1955, he moved to Paris to study wood engraving at the École des Beaux Arts, and then to the United States in 1964–5 to teach at the Minneapolis School of Art, and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.