BORN 

Tokyo, Japan 

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EDUCATION

2014     

Master of Arts, Art History and Curatorship Program with Honours,

Australian National University, Australia

2004     

Master of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, USA

Major: Printmaking

2001

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Joshibi University of Art and Design, Japan

Major: Printmaking

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AWARD, SCHOLARSHIP, FELLOWSHIP, MEMBERSHIP

2021

Best Acrylic Award, PleinAir Salon August competition

2015       

Golden Key International Honour Society, Australian National University

2012       

Endeavour Postgraduate Scholarship, Australia Awards Endeavour Scholarships and Fellowships, Australian Government

2003     

Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fine Arts Fellowship, San Francisco Foundation

2001  

Purchase Award, Joshibi University of Art and Design, Kanagawa, Japan

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NOMINATION

2004     

Headlands Center for the Arts, Graduate Artist Studio Awards, Sausalito, CA

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SOLO EXHIBITION

2003       

Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021

"Make Arts Happen in Mama's Lives," Central Public Library, Singapore

2005     

“Ghost of Little Boy,” National Japanese American Historical Society, San Francisco, CA

“Threshold,” Merced Cultural Center, Merced, CA

“Diorama,” Mission 17, San Francisco, CA

“Accumulated Allusions,“ San Pablo Art Gallery, San Pablo, CA

“Some Thing-out of nothing,” Root Division, San Francisco, CA

2004     

“Issho / Together: Japanese American/Japanese National Artists in America 1941-present,”  Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“APAture,” Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA

“Elevation,” Mission 17, San Francisco, CA 

“San Francisco Art Institute-Master of Fine Arts Exhibition,” Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA

“New California Masters,” Works/ San Jose, CA 

“Close Calls,” Headlands Center for the Arts, Headlands, CA

“Labyrinth,” Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

2003    

“The Murphy’s Fellowship Award Exhibition,” San Francisco Art commissions Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Third Street Inside/Out,” Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

“Gene Carnival,” Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA   

“Continuing MFA Show,” Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA   

2001     

“Printmaking Graduate Show,” Seira Gallery, Tokyo

“Five Art University Exhibition,” Machida International Print Museum, Tokyo

“Metaphor of the Body,” Pepper’s Gallery, Tokyo

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PRESS

2024 “Bringing Nature Indoors,” Expat Living Singapore, Issue 268, November 2024, p.36.

2021  "Best of Category Awards,"  PleinAir Magazine, Volume 11 Issue 6, December 2021-January 2022, p.71

"Appreciating Ato (Art)," Mama on Palette, July, https://www.mamaonpalette.com/blog/appreciating-ato-art

"This March holidays, cultivate creativity with your children through art," The Pride, March, http://pride.kindness.sg/march-holidays-creativity-children-art/

2005

Bee Cool-San Pablo News, June-July

Hokubei Mainichi, June 

Artweek, June

2004

Kearny Street Workshop Newsletter Fall

2003

Artweek, October 

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ARTIST TALK

2021

"Every Mother Is A True Artist," National Public Library, Singapore

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