Born in Brazil, 1979. She is a Japanese-Brazilian artist who lives and works between Brazil and France. She holds a fine arts degree from the Faculty of Arts of Parana, Brazil, and a Master of Visual Arts from Nihon University in Japan, where she lived for almost 10 years. Her poetic compositions explore the essence of Japanese traditional culture in a range of mixed-media techniques, including paper, canvas, sculpture, and installation.
"This time spent abroad, in her words, became the foundation of her artistic production and investigation - aspects of traditional Japanese art and culture are central to her work. She begins with drawings, the word and everything that involves this universe: the written, oral, pictorial, literary words and symbols. Poems and personal investigations are used repeatedly in pictorial diaries, the word functions as her contact with the audience and as an instrument for self-reflection. Her works display inquiries into concepts like identity, hybridism, ethnic origins, mother language and cultural boundaries – issues discussed in Brazil and abroad." (New Effervescence Exhibition, Porto Seguro Cultural Space)
Selected Exhibitions
À Fleur de Mots
À Fleur de Mots, Solo exhibition
L'Orangerie Espace Toulières, Verrières-le-Buisson, France 2022
Transpacific Bordelands
Prunusplastus, Transpacific Bordelands: The Art of Japanese Diaspora
Japanese American National Museum - LA/USA, 2017/18
New Effervescence
Loop, Porto Seguro Cultural Space, São Paulo, Brazil 2019
Photo: Fabio Furtado
Don’t Ask Me Where I am From
Imago Mundi Fondazione Benetton, Treviso, Italy 2019
Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada 2020
Photo: Marco Pavan
Consonant Chromatics
Via Thorey Contemporary Art Gallery, Vitoria, Brazil 2019
Photo: Daniel Eliziario
Archipels, Géographies D’Extraordinaires
Galerie Exit Art Contemporain, Boulogne-Billancourt, France 2019
Entre(meios
Suteishi, Adelina Institute, São Paulo, Brazil 2017
Photo: Ale Cabral
Project N47
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2011
Photo: Kioku Keizo
Garden
Funarte (National Foundation of Arts) São Paulo Gallery
São Paulo, Brazil 2011
Photos: Tatewaki Nio
Growing Memories
Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale, Niigata, Japan 2012
Photo: Osamu Nakamura
In(verses) Ways
Contemporary Museum of Paraná MAC, Curitiba, Brazil 2008
