Tomoyo

Japan, 1979

A versatile artist, she studied drawing and figurative arts until 1998, when she passed the entrance exam for the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tsukuba. In 2003, she graduated in Composition Art with a thesis on kinetic art applied to BAUHAUS experimentation.
Also in 2003, she exhibited at the Tsukuba Municipal Museum and designed and created a kinetic stage set for a piano concert at the Tochigi Municipal Theater. This project sparked her interest in applying art to scenography. Combined with her passion for Italian kinetic art, this led her to move to Rome, where she earned a master's degree in scenography.

She collaborated with several scenographic workshops in Rome before focusing more specifically on painting, where she merged scenic illusion with spatial graphic design.
She currently lives and works between Italy and Japan.

In September 2011, she won the 38th International Contemporary Art Exhibition (Premio Sulmona) and was awarded the Gold Medal of the President of the Republic—an important recognition for an artist in constant pursuit of light and its visual pathways.

In 2014, she won the Silver Plaque at the 41st Premio Sulmona.
In 2015, she won the competition to create a permanent installation at the Kawaci Jichi Centre for the city of Utsunomiya, Japan.