How I got here and now...
I am sitting in a light-filled room overlooking a park in Brooklyn, which I have called home and used as my studio for more than 25 years. At this point, I consider myself a New Yorker, although I was born in Tokyo in the 1960s. I first set foot in the United States at the age of 10, on a tour through California with a group of teenagers and several adult chaperones. We visited Disneyland, the Grand Canyon, and—of all places—a bar with hundreds of dusty neckties, cut from patrons and hanging from the ceiling. America made a huge impression on me, to say the least. Five years later, I moved to Boston to attend high school and eventually college— the beginning of my life in the United States.
Resume (abbreviated)
Education
1996- 1999
Pratt Institute - MFA
1987 - 1989
Tufts University/School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - BFA
Grants and Fellowships
2014
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in
Craft/Sculpture category
2008
Urban Artist Initiative, NY Fellow
2007
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists' Books category
Exhibitions
-Solo and Two-Persons
2023 TORI TORI TORI, Olympia Gallery, New York, May 12 to June 17
2014
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2010
2008
Mutaphilliac, George Adams Gallery, New York. Jan. 16 to March 1
New Cut Paper Studies, George Adams Gallery, New York. Nov. 4 to Dec. 30
Flora/Fauna, The Union Art Gallery, Univ. of Wisconsin, MI. Jan.29 to Feb. 26.
TOTEM, George Adams Gallery, NY. Sept. 4 to Oct. 18.
2007
Recent Paper Cutouts, George Adams Gallery, NY. May 16 to June 23. Flowers & Insects, Steinhardt Conservatory Gallery, Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Brooklyn. April 7 to May 6.
-Group (abbreviated)
2023 Two Years and Change, Olympia Gallery, LES, NYC, Feb. 23 -
March 25
2022 Said to be Dreaming, Olympia Gallery, LES, NYC, July 21 - Sept. 10
2021
2020
2019
Cut Up/Cut Out (traveling exhibition), Carnegie Arts Center, Turlock, CA, Sept. 18, 2020 to January 3, 2021
In the Deep Heart's Core (curated by Katherine Meehan), NYU Langone Art Gallery, November 18, 2019 to May 13, 2020
Cut Up/Cut Out, Art Museum of West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV,
September 8 to October 12
Notable group show participation between the year 2008 and 2015
(2015) Object to be Contemplated, Selby Gallery at the Ringling College of Art & Design, FL.
(2014) Select Cuts and Alterations, Foley Gallery, New York. Nov. 19, 2014 to Jan. 11, 2015
(2014) Art on Paper Biannual Exhibition, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, NC. Sept. 24 to Dec. 11.
(2014) Obsessive Reductive, San Francisco Museum of Craft and Art, CA. Feb. 1 to March 30.
(2012) Fairytales, Fantasy, and Fear, Gorelick Galleries, The Mint Museum, NC. March 3 to July 7.
(2011) Animal Instinct, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, WI. Oct. 17 to June 8
(2011) Redefining Drawing, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. July 15 to Aug. 22.
(2010) Slash: Paper Under the Knife, Museum of Arts and Design, New York. Oct. 7, 2009 to April. 4.
(2009) Drawn in the Clouds, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland. Oct. 30, 08 to Feb. 2009.
(2009) X: 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Mixed Greens, New York. July 19 to August 14.
(2008) Drawn to Detail, DeCordova Museum, Boston, MA. Aug. 30 to Jan. 4.