A New State of Matter: Contemporary Glass, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI.The Implications of a Simple Landscape, North Seattle Community Collage, Seattle, WA.Burned: Women and Fire, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.Six Feet Apart, Michael Warren Contemporary, Denver, CO.Solstice: Create Art for Earth, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, curated by Judy Chicago.New From The Northwest, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA.Resolutions, Michael Warren Contemporary, Denver, CO.25th Anniversary Exhibition, Part Two, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY.Art & Healing: Virtual Exhibitions, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.Expanding Horizons, Glasshouse Arts and Heritage Centre, The Glasshouse, Stourbridge, England.C ontemporary glass, The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT.Kokoro, In-Between,Gallery Mohri, Tokyo, Japan.Kokoro, In-Between,Kirkland Performance Center, Kirkland, WA.Shadow Installation,Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA.Funiki: Floating Feelings,Viveza Gallery, Seattle, WA.breath-memory,SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA.Fluid Moment,Gallery 4Culture, Seattle, WA.Ephemeral Eternal,Davidson Contemporary, Seattle, WA.Traces of the Molten State,Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA, curated by Stefano Catalani.Trace,Randall Scott Gallery, Washington D.C.Pyrograph,Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA.Moment/Memory,Function+Art, Chicago, IL.Glass Pyrographs,Randall Scott Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.NACHI – between the eternal and the ephemeral,University of Wyoming Art Museum, curated by Susan Moldenhauer, Laramie, WY.Pyrograph & Aquagraph,Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA.Pyrograph & Aquagraph,TASTE at Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA.Tracing Light,Waterhouse & Dodd, New York, NY.Echo at Satsop,Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA.Glass Pyrograph on Paper,ponyhof artclub contemporary art, Munich, Germany.Echo at Satsop,New Media Gallery, Jack Straw Productions, Seattle, WA.Act of Drawing,Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA.HAKONIWA Project,Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA.Act of Drawing,Michael Warren Contemporary, Denver, CO.Traces,Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, WA.Vitrified,Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA.Water Within,Michael Warren Contemporary, Denver, CO.Vitrified, Gallery One Visual Arts Center, Ellensburg, WA.Vitrified, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY.New Traces, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA.Broken Poems of Fireflies, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.My work is a reflection of myself in these two distinctively different cultures.ġ993-2021: Lived and worked in Seattle, Washington, USAĢ021-2022: Traveling around the world to participate in art residenciesĢ023-: Lives and Works on Big Island, Hawaii, USAġ993,1994,2000: Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA (summer programs)ġ991-1992: Tokyo Glass Art Institute, Kanagawaġ983-1987: BFA in Painting, Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo Both places are home to me, and while my life is rooted in America, my spiritual-seeking and aesthetic sensibilities strongly call to Japan. I was born and raised in Tokyo and have lived in the U.S. This experience connected many things for me – my love of glass, my Japanese heritage and nuclear legacy, my perspective looking through the lens of America, and my fear, hope, and responsibility for the future. I subsequently visited the Hanford site, where I learned about vitrification technology which transforms radioactive waste into glass for ultimate disposal. This particular choice of material relates to a shift in my personal values that occurred after the devastating 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown in Japan.
In my recent body of work, titled VITRIFIED, I use uranium glass as a key element in my sculpture, installation, film, and photography. This work captures and eternalizes the immediacy of a moment, and it is a trace of my body movement with fluid glass. My Glass Pyrograph is an abstract drawing on paper made with fire by scorching molten glass. I do my best when I work intuitively and spontaneously using ephemeral materials such as fire and water. I work in a broad range of media: drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, film, poetry, and socially engaged art. I could describe that my art making is like creating visual poetry.
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