久不相見長毋相忘（長いこと会えなくても、いつまでも忘れないで）　上野公園・ホームレス炊き出し会場付近

Motoko Mitō is a contemporary artist based in Kyushu. Her work has consistently focused on confronting pain and exploring memory and deterioration. She engages with social issues—including interdisciplinary approaches centered on art, archival preservation, regional challenges, gender, disability, social education, disaster recovery, and biodiversity—through her art practice. Furthermore, drawing on her professional experience as a cultural property conservation technician and curator, as well as her practical involvement in cultural property preservation and participation in cultural property rescue efforts in disaster-stricken areas, she continues her activities by dedicating her life and time to “social sculpture”—a practice focused on the preservation of artworks and the transmission of memory in the contemporary era through works centered on the themes of “preservation” and “restoration,” while also addressing marginalized memories, individuals, and social issues. Resides in Nagasaki Prefecture Born in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, 1988 Graduated from Fukuoka Prefectural Shuyukan High School, 2007 Graduated from Oita University, Faculty of Education and Welfare Sciences, Information Society and Culture Program, Comprehensive Expression Course, 2011 Completed Master's Program in Art Education, Graduate School of Education, Oita University, 2014 【Major Exhibitions and Events】 2009: International Art Festival: Contemporary Art Festival “Mixed Bathing Hot Spring World” AAC: Art Meets Architecture Competition 2010: “Let's Go Dancing! vol.10” hosted by Japan Contemporary Dance Network 2012 OASIS Artist Produce HEart OF CHRistMAS! Exhibition Division Grand Prix “The Last Rendezvous” (iichiko General Cultural Center Prefectural Gallery), Oita Prefecture Cultural and Sports Promotion Foundation 2013 Oita City Art Exhibition, Art Brother Award 2020 AFAF Art Fair Asia Fukuoka, Selected 2023 Yufuin Station Art Hall Project Exhibition Solo Exhibition “You Are Eternal, You Are Infinite” (Yufuin Station Art Hall) Plus numerous other solo exhibitions, etc.