Born in 1991 in Tokyo, she received her BFA from photography and contemporary art course of Kyoto University of Art and Design in Japan. She also studied video and sound art at Zurich university of Arts in Switzerland through an exchange program.
Since her interest is capturing a moment, she uses material which does not remain as a form such as sounds, smell, temporary sculpture and performance. Her artwork is mostly based on non-famous narratives like her personal history and local stories of a small town and she tries to make them sharable with audience.
She currently studies at Bauhaus University Weimar as an exchange student and belong to the Global Art Practice MFA program, at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Academic background:
2017 Bauhaus-Universität Weimar exchange program
2016 enter Tokyo University of the Arts global art practice program
2016 graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design
2014 Zürcher Hochschule der Künste exchange program
2012 enter the Kyoto University of Art and Design contemporary art and photography course
Solo Exhibition:
2018 Unsere bequemliche Welt
2017 Fictionality, S.Y.P art space, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Schlaf grosses Schaf, Design Festa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Freak out/Open side, Bar Hawkwind, Kyoto, Japan
Selected Group Exhibition:
2018 Winterwerkschau, Marienstrasse 7, Weimar, Germany
2017 Vi tager intet ansvar 5 WAREHOUSE9, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 Complex Topography movement and change, Setouchi triennial, Kagawa, Japan
THE LAST ASCENT : OMITTED VOICES, Art space Kokonoka, Tokyo, Japan
2015 DOKI DOKI international exhibition, cumono gallery, Kyoto, Japan
PARK, Kumagusuku art hostel, Kyoto, Japan
2014 The interval between two points, Kumogahata School Kumogahata, Kyoto, Japan
Useless Optics, Fujihira ceramic factory Gojoh, Kyoto, Japan, Tama Art University Hachiohji,Tokyo, Japan
2013 KYOTO INTERACTION, 3F project room Kawaramachi, Kyoto
TOPOS+, bixco kitchen Chayama, Kyoto, Japan
2012 TOPOS, bixco kitchen Chayama, Kyoto, Japan
2011 tenten, Suidobata Art School Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan
2010 Dairy of four, cafe Tanne Ningyocho, Tokyo, Japan
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