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As a Japanese-style painter, she spent her childhood in a seaside town, where she came across beautiful aquatic creatures as part of her original experience. Later, she visited seas and aquariums in Japan and around the world, and painting these creatures that move her became her life’s work.
Having been fascinated by aquatic creatures that still retain their ancient forms, she has placed her focus on them in her paintings. At the root of her work is a sense of awe, as well as her admiration and compassion for these creatures, who have hardly changed their appearance since tens or hundreds of millions of years ago through “evolution without evolution”. She humorously depicts the beauty and loveliness of these creatures, whose lives have been interconnected since long before we homo sapiens walked the earth.
The inadvertent patterns and beautiful matière are created by applying ink to the front of the Kumohada hemp paper and covering the surface with silver foil all over to create kneaded paper. The creatures painted on it with mineral pigments and gold leaf are depicted as if they are filled with the rich radiance of life.
2014: First solo exhibition at Gallery Seira in Ginza, Tokyo
2015: Two-person exhibition with Nao Sano at Gallery Seira in Ginza, Tokyo
2015, 2016, and 2017: Selected for the Salon d’Automne in France for three consecutive years
2016: Solo exhibition at Galerie Etienne de Causans in Saint-Germain-des-Pres,Paris
2017: Selected for the Tokyo Spring Soga Exhibition, and exhibited at World Art Dubai
2018: Solo exhibition at The Ueno Royal Museum Annex Gallery in Tokyo
2018: Solo exhibition at the George Billis Gallery in Chelsea, New York
2019: Solo exhibition at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, France
2021: Selected for the The 39th Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition
2021: Solo exhibition at ShinPuhKan in Kyoto
2021: Solo exhibition at Shibuya Hikarie in Tokyo
