Personal Background

2022   Lives and Works in New York, NY
2011   Moved to New York

1980   Born in Kyoto, raised in Shiga, Japan

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Education

2018-2020   Pratt Institute | Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing, Graduate with Distinction (NY)
1999-2003   Okayama Prefectural University | Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design (Okayama, JP)

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Studio / Residency Program

2023   EFA North Folk Residency | The Potato Farm Project (Jamesport, NY) 

2021-Current   EFA Studio Program | The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NY)
2021   Governors Island Residency Initiative | Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (NY)

 

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Award / Grant / Scholarship

2022   2022 Spring Visual Grant | Café Royal Cultural Foundation (NY)

2021   City Artist Corps Grants | New York Foundation for the Arts (NY)

2021   Works on Paper 2021 First Prize | The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences (NJ)

2020   Forward Together! Prize | The Nippon Club WEB Art Exhibition (NY)

2019   Weiss Endowed Scholarship

2019   Carlow Memorial Scholarship

2019   Pratt in Venice Merit-based Scholarship

2019   Pratt in Venice Assistantship Award

2018   Pratt Institute Merit-based Scholarship

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024   [ = ] | CCCSCD (NY)

2024   Exotic Star | RAINRAIN (NY)

2023   North Fork Report: White Noise | The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NY)

2022   Into Ultrablack | RAINRAIN (NY)

2021   Growing in the Dark | The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NY)
2021   Mutating Asteroid | Brian Leo Project (NY)
2010   Pulse | art+cafe cifa (Okayama, JP)
2007   Lake Forms | Altamira (Okayama, JP)
2006   Lake Surface | Taiyo Jimu (Kyoto, JP)
 

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Selected Group Exhibitions

2023   The Lafayette Rendezvous: Contingents and Convergences | RAINRAIN (NY)

2023   There Is A Certain Slant of Light | Pratt Manhattan Gallery (NY)

2022   Summerworks Presentation: SKITSE | Art Hub Copenhagen (Copenhagen, DK) 

2022   You'd Think By Now | Smack Mellon (NY)
2022   A Matter of Fact/A Fact of Matter? | Kunstraum LLC (NY)
2022   2022 North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show (VT)
2022   Chromotherapy in an Age of Doubt | Pratt Manhattan Gallery (NY)
2022   Dread in the Eyes | The Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts (NY)
2021   [body]2[body] | The Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts (NY)
2021   NOT JUST ANOTHER ANTHOROPOCENIC LOVE STORY | Trestle Gallery (NY)
2021   Ghost of Presence | Susan Eley Fine Art (NY)
2021   Black and White | Site:Brooklyn Gallery (NY)
2021   BAM Gala 2021: Silent Auction | Brooklyn Academy of Music (NY)
2021   Works on Paper 2021 | The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences (NJ)
2021   In The Wake of Slumber | Paradice Palase (NY)
2021   Emergent Poise | Culture Lab LIC (NY)
2020   inheritance | Super Dutchess (NY)
2020   The Shape of | Pratt Institute Steuben Gallery (NY)
2019   Half-Life | Pratt Institute DeKalb Gallery (NY)
2014   Small Works | Trestle Gallery (NY)
2012   2012 NURTUREart Benefit | Charles Bank Gallery (NY)
2011   SHOWCASE SHOW Vol.9 | SHOWCASE, MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY (Tokyo, JP)

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Group Project

2021   Emergent Poise, Project Organizer | Culture Lab LIC, On Canal (NY)

 

 

Publishing

2021   Text Book: Tamy Ben-Tor & Miki Carmi, Essay Contribution | Minerva Projects (NY)

2021   ART MAZE Mag Issue 23, editorial selection by ArtMaze | ArtMaze Magazine (London, UK)