Yoko Kiuchi

Yoko Kiuchi

Yoko Kiuchi studied Graphic Design at Pratt Institute of Technology in NY and worked as a graphic designer for a few years before realizing that graphic design was not what she wanted to do with her life. She became more interested in fine arts and therefore decided...
Yasuka Matsumoto

Yasuka Matsumoto

I studied sculpture at Tama Art University and experienced using various materials. I was fascinated by the beauty of the original state of each material. Since every material is perfect as it is, I always wanted to use materials in their original condition. Since...
Tomoko Abe

Tomoko Abe

Tomoko Abe graduated from the Edinburgh College of Art and obtained BA in painting with First Class Honour, during which she also spent half a year at Escuela de Bellas Artes in Salamanca, Spain, on the ERASMUS scholarship. She has shown her works in many exhibitions...
Satomi Shirai

Satomi Shirai

Satomi Shirai is originally from Tokyo, and currently lives and works in New York. She completed the full-time Certificate Program at International Center of Photography in 2007, and received her MFA from CUNY Hunter College in 2010. Her works have been exhibited...
Miyu Asakawa

Miyu Asakawa

Miyu Asakawa was born in Fukuoka, Japan and moved to New York in 1998. She has been working in ceramics for the last seven years. Most of the pieces in this exhibit are made in the Raku method, which is a particular method of glazing and firing clay. In Raku, the...
Keiko Takeko

Keiko Takeko

Keiko Takeko came to the United States in 1997 and to study art at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. After graduation in 2000, she returned to Japan and worked at Ukiyo-e gallery. While working, she kept learning art, especially abstract painting, at...
Hiromi Suzuki

Hiromi Suzuki

Su was born in 1970 in Iwate prefecture in Japan and lives as a transsexual. He is half way through a journey to discover what is the “essence of living.” Even though he has been familiar with pictures since his childhood, one of Picasso’s pictures gave him a shock...
Erika Mizukami

Erika Mizukami

Born in New York and raised in Tokyo, Erika Mizukami has been drawing since 2010. After experiencing self-hypnosis and guided meditation several years ago, Erika started experiencing beautiful visions every night as she was lying down. Images were like the ones in a...
Miho Takai

Miho Takai

Miho Takai was born and educated in Tokyo before coming to the United States to study art at the National Academy of Art and The Art Students League of New York. She currently lives in Brooklyn and spends her time transfering her interpretation of this dynamic city...
Ayane Kurai

Ayane Kurai

Ayane Kurai was born in 1969 in Hyogo, Japan. In 1988 she entered the department of paintings, College of Art and Design, Musashino Art University in Tokyo.She has been living and working in New York City since 1990. She received The Joan MItchel Foundation Grand...
Rie Nishimura

Rie Nishimura

Rie is a performance artist and painter born in Tokyo, a graduate of Musashino Art University. Her performance combines dancing and painting to capture her feelings in the moment. She creates a unique atmosphere, allowing her to share time, space, and experience with...
Miho Takai

Kotomi Hada

Kotomi Hada was born in Gifu, Japan and moved to New York in 1996. From 1997 – 1998 she studied oil painting at the Art Student League of New York and in 1998 entered The National Academy of Art, where she studied oil painting for three years on scholarship. “Colors...
Shisui

Shisui

Shisui’s art has most recently appeared in the famous spiritual magazine “Yugahul.” Also in 2013, her work was included in the book Anatanimmo kototama no kiseki ga segue okiru by Mr Sakuraba Masahumi and in the web magazine TrinityWeb. Last year,...
Kyoko Takei

Kyoko Takei

Born and raised in Nagano Prefecture in Japan, Takei worked as an architect in Tokyo for nine years. Takei has been living and working in New York City since 1997. She majored in Photography at the School of Visual Arts and then studied oil painting and drawing at the...
Yumiko Matsui

Yumiko Matsui

Yumiko Matsui is a New York-based paper artist who trained as a painter with master Hajime Yoshioka in her hometown of Osaka, Japan. Since 2006 she has been specializing in making fantastic dioramas made out of paper. The catalyst for this change was seeing dollhouses...
Yuki Hoshi

Yuki Hoshi

Yuki Hoshi was born in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from art school in Tokyo, she worked as an accounting specialist for almost six years. Right after she married in 1988, she moved to New York City with her husband due to his new job assignment. In New York City,...
Junko Yamada

Junko Yamada

Junko Yamada was born in Kyoto, Japan. Growing up in the beach resort area of Miyazu, a beautiful area of Japan located on the Pacific coast about two hours north of Kyoto, her art was influenced by the spectacular scenery. Her academic training includes the Art...
Teo Yamamoto

Teo Yamamoto

Teo Yamamoto has been living in New York City since 1989. She has been producing and publishing a variety of art and has been involved as visual artist, designer, poet and writer with many projects based in New York and Tokyo. Two of her books of poems were published...
Emi Koda

Emi Koda

Emi Koda is from Hiroshima, Japan. She began studying pottery making in 1994 when she moved with her husband to New Jersey. Upon moving to Saitama, Japan in 1999, she began teaching pottery making there, which she continued until she and her husband moved to Harrison,...
Go Nakamura

Go Nakamura

Go Nakamura was born in Tokyo and moved to Hawaii at the age of 16. He started his photography career as a wedding photographer at La-Vie Photography, known for professional wedding photography with high fashion and artistic photos, but developed his own journalistic...
Wada Africa

Wada Africa

Wada Africa is a fashion house started by designer Chiaki Wada. Her African Journey started when she met beautiful and powerful African fabrics by fate in New York. The fabrics get a soul by arid wind and blaze of the sun. WADA-AFRICA transforms African fabrics into...
Nobu

Nobu

Nobu was born in Kamakura City and lived right in front of Kanagawa Modern Museum. During her elementary school years, she loved to visit the museum and even explored neighborhood galleries on her own. After winning an international student art competition and showing...
Clouds AO

Clouds AO

Clouds Architecture Office has produced a number of built and speculative projects distilled from research and analysis that explores the intersection between conceptual and experiential approaches to the built environment. Their work includes the publication of...
Marvin Rosenberg

Marvin Rosenberg

Marvin Rosenberg was born in New York City.  As a teenager he started to draw and paint. When he was 21, he met a man who greatly influenced the course of his life, named Sam Spanier. Sam was a successful artist who started an ashram based upon the teachings of the...
Marianne Gunther

Marianne Gunther

Marianne Gunther is a New York State- licensed creative art psychotherapist in private practice here at Center for Remembering and Sharing, New York City. In addition to her private practice, Marianne is a member of the psychiatric creative art therapy team of...