Nishida Shun'ei (西田 俊英, born April 20, 1953, in Ise city, Mie prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese painter who specializes in portraits and is a professor of Japanese painting at Hiroshima City University.
While in India he was awakened to portraiture and in 1995 received the Nihon Bijutsuin (Japan Art Institute) Award as well as the newly established Adachi Museum of Art Award for his Pushkar no Rojin ("Old man of Pushkar"), depicting the face of an Indian village chief.
[2] In 1996 he won the Tenshin Memorial Ibaraki Award for Jakko ("Serene Light") depicting a young monk of Ladakh.
In 1997 he received the Nihon Bijutsuin (Japan Art Institute) Award for the second time for "Carlos", which was praised for its use of light in depicting the life and feelings of the subject.
[3] At present, Nishida Shun'ei is a Donin (member) and Hyogi-in (Councilor) of the Japan Art Institute.