Castle of Sand (Recalling a forgotten language)

Born 1980, Shizuoka, Japan. Graduated from Tokyo Asagaya Art College, School of Image Creation in 2007. Started her career in London in 2011 and has exhibited at numerous art fairs and exhibitions in the UK, Tokyo, and the Netherlands. She mainly produces paintings and semi-three-dimensional works based on ‘words/text’. She returned to Japan in 2023 and is currently based in Shizuoka. It is said that humans think about 50,000 thoughts every day, 90% of which are the same as yesterday. Is the world we see through the endlessly repeated thoughts of the unconscious really the truth or reality? With this question as its theme, the work poses a message to the self-perception and manifest consciousness of those who confront it. 1980    Born in Shizuoka,  Japan 2001    Study abroad in L.A for 2 years 2007 Graduated from Tokyo Asagaya Art College, School of Image Creation 2011    Moved to London and started a career as an artist 2013 Back to Japan and held a first solo show in Tokyo 2016 Moved to the Netherlands 2023 Back to Japan, live and work in Shizuoka ​​​ [Award/Prize]
 2019    Long listed for Aesthetica Art Prize, Three-Dimensional Design & Sculpture in UK 2014. The Special Jury Prize from the University of the Arts London Vice President
  [Solo exhibition] (selected)
 2022    “Truth ≠ Fact”, Case Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
 2016 “AsAMatterOfFact” JAPSEL Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan 
 2013 “BELIEVING IS SEEING” Gallery Mestalla, Tokyo, Japan             
 [Group exhibition](selected)
 2024    “Chapter 11 -Summer Show”, KEN FINE ART, Osaka, Japan
 2016    “INSIGHT OUT”, KOMAGOME1-14a, Tokyo, Japan
 2016 “FARO de ART”, FARO Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
 2014 “BWHOOM TOKYO”, PARCO Gallery X, Tokyo, Japan
 2014 “3331 Chiyoda Art Fes Independent”, Tokyo, Japan
 2013 “Open Country”, College Lodge Gallery, London, UK
 2013 “Japan Now”, A-side B-side Gallery, London, UK
 2012 “Read Between The Lines”, ITV Television centre, London, UK
 2012 “ KiraKira”, Gallery Onetwentyeight Gallery, New York, USA
 2012 “Caterpillar Dreams”, Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK
 2012 “CODE Shift-beyond the code-“, The Blank Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 2012 “Salon des Refusés”, Hoxton Gallery, London,UK

 [Art Fair]
 2018 “Artrooms”, London, UK
 2017 “Moniker International Art Fair”, London,UK
 2016 “Art Fair Tokyo”, Tokyo, Japan
 2015 “Art Fair Tokyo”,Tokyo, Japan
 2015 “KIAF”, Seoul, Korea
 2014 “Tokyo Designers week Art Fair”, Tokyo, Japan