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SELECTED EXHIBITION & SPATIAL INSTALLATIONS

 

2025                      TOKYO NOWHERE GIRL — Tokyo Creative Salon                                

                              Window installation merging garments, storytelling, and urban identity                                                              Takashimaya department store show windows,  Tokyo

2024                      THE STORIES WOVEN BY GIRLS — Intermix Residency, Group Exhibition                                                        Textile-based installation exploring womanhood and cultural identity                                                                  Jax District, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2021                      BEYOND OUR MEMORIES — Rokko Meets Art

                              Outdoor installation interrogating fashion and ecological relations

                              Mt. Rokko Area, Japan

2020                      BUTTERFLY DREAM TOKYO — Tokyo Creative Salon

                              Dreamscape-inspired display and garments｜Mitsukoshi  department store, Tokyo

2019                      UNITED CORSET — Bvlgari Mecenate

                              Fusion of urushi lacquer and corsetry as gendered body armor｜ Bvlgari Ginza, Tokyo 2018                      ANOTHER TOKYO SCENERY 2 — Doctoral Course Final Exhibition                                                                  Installation visualizing rural social conformity through garments

                              The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts｜Tokyo, Japan​​

 

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COSTUME DESIGN

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2024                      WETA WORKSHOP — Internship

                              Experience in world-class film costume and fabrication studio｜Wellington, New Zealand 2023                      WOW (World of Wearable Art)

                              Avant-garde wearable sculpture selected for international stage performance

                              TSB Arena, New Zealand    

2022                      SHIP — Commercial film for a contemporary art initiative｜Art Tokyo Association, Japan 2021                      THE TEN RULES — Promotion video for players of Japanese traditional instruments

                              Tsuruga Castle, Japan    

 

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FASHION DESIGN​

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2023                      THE MEMORIES OF INDIA — Satisfashion

                              Runway group show inspired by Indian textiles and aesthetics

                              I Chiostri di San Barnaba, Milan, Italy

2020                      BUTTERFLY DREAM PARIS — Paris Fashion

                              Runway group show presenting experimental silhouettes and surface treatments

                              Le Salon des Miroirs, Paris Fashion Week, France

                              DIOR HOMME SHOWROOM

                              Internship focusing on luxury menswear and material development｜Paris, France

2012–2024            PEOPLE TREE, JAPAN — FAIR TRADE COMPANY CO. LTD.

                              Textile print and graphic design for an ethical fashion label｜Tokyo, Japan

 

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ARTIST RESIDENCES

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2024                     KINO ÚSMEV

                             Research on Ester Krumbachová, masterclass organized and led by myself,

                             and final exhibition｜CINEFIL, o.z., Košice, Slovakia

                             INTERMIX RESIDENCY — Art & Fashion Reimagined

                             Creation of a fashion-based art project and final exhibition

                             Ministry of Culture, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2017                     YOUNG LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

                             Cultural research residency focusing on interdisciplinary exchange

                             Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, Jerusalem & Tel Aviv-Yafol 

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TEACHING & ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENTS

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2022 – Present      Kyoto University of the Arts

                              Lecturer: Sustainable Fashion and Graphic Design

2018 – Present      Shang Yi Studio

                              Tutor: Contemporary Art,

                              Fashion Design, and interdisciplinary art research and portfolio development

2022                      Gunma Prefectural Women’s University

                              Special Lecturer for Bachelor Students

2021                      Sugino Fashion College

                              Special Lecturer for Master Students

2017 – 2019          Yokohama F College / Yokohama Design College

                              Tutor: Fashion Drawing Other teaching experience includes Vantan Design Institute,                                        Tokyo Designer Gakuin, etc.

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AWARDS & RECOGNITION

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2023                      Runner-Up Supreme Award

                              Weta Workshop Emerging Designer Award

                              Avant Garde Section Award

                              World of Wearable Art Show, New Zealand

2021                      Grand Prix — Rokko Meets Art 2021

                              Selected as the top artist out of 248 participants

2019                      Teraura Sayoko Scholarship — One-year study scholarship in Paris

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EDUCATION

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2014-2019            Ph.D. in Art, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan

                             Doctoral Dissertation: “The Assimilation Between Fashion and the Environment”

2000 – 2002         M.F.A. in Design, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan

1996 – 2000         B.F.A. in Design, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan

2020                     Professional Experience Course, Istituto Marangoni, Paris

2002                     Fashion Design, London Centre for Fashion Studies, UK