In my practice, I explore the interconnectedness and cyclical nature that weave us all together, intentionally or unintentionally, and there is a certain sense of surprise and comfort in knowing that.

The natural phenomena of the water cycle, along with mediums such as cyanotype and thermal color, enable me to translate ephemeral human presence like body water and heat into tactile visualizations. The result is a conundrum of the desire to create static, physical objects that capture the fleeting human essence.

Born in Japan. Lives and works in North Kingstown, RI.

EXHIBITIONS:

2027 TBA (two-person), Tacoma Community
College, Tacoma, WA
2025 PRESS ON, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center,
MD
2024 Silver Linings at NE 48th Ave (two-
person), Chazan Gallery, RI
2023 I Should Have Been a Pair of Ragged
 Claws, Wassaic Project, NY
2022 When the Wind Blows, Kunst Haus Wien,
Vienna, Austria
2019 Weather Report, The Aldrich
Contemporary Art Museum, CT
Ad Astra Per Aspara, Wassaic Project,
NY
Portrayal, Green Space Gallery at T.F.
Green Airport, RI
2017 Out of the Woods: Grand Entrance
(collaboration), Stevens Point Sculpture
Park, WI
2015 Odd Geometry (two-person),
cocolaboratory, Akita, Japan
Growing, Nizayama Forest Art Museum,
Toyama, Japan
10th Daikokuya Contemporary Art
 Competition, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya,
Tochigi, Japan
2014 What Comes Around Goes Around (solo),
Gallery Glass Pyramid, Toyama, Japan
2013 Ecchu Art Festival, Toyama, Japan
Yatsuo Art Festival 2013, Toyama, Japan
The Space of Time (two-person),
Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama,
Japan
Homeward Found, Wassaic Project, NY
2012 Art Garden 2012 Oiwasan, Toyama, Japan
2011 Yatsuo Art Festival 2011, Toyama, Japan
2010 Ecchu Art Festival, Toyama, Japan
I-95 Triennial Invitational, University of
Maine Museum of Art, ME
Alchemy, Schiltkamp Gallery, MA
2009 Young Artists Exhibition, Tamada
Projects, Tokyo, Japan
Color Matters, South Shore Art Center, MA
2008 New Art 2008, MPG Contemporary, MA
2007 The Five Senses, Northbrook Public
Library, IL
Essential Elements, Hera Gallery, RI
Fresh Perspectives in Studio Furniture,
Silo Gallery, CT
RISD/Fidelity Outdoor Sculpture Loan
 Program, Fidelity Investments, RI
2006 New Directions ’06: 22nd Annual National
Juried Contemporary Art Exhibition,
Barrett Art Center, NY. Juried by Sara
Reisman, Curatorial Fellow, The New
Museum of Contemporary Art, NY.
30 Under 30, Hera Gallery, RI
Graduate Student Exhibition, The RISD
Museum, RI
Perfectly Frank: MFA Row, Peerless
Space, RI
Phenomena, Sol Koffler Gallery, Rhode
Island School of Design, RI
Curiouser: RISD Graduate Sculpture
 Thesis Exhibition, Stay Gold Gallery, NY
RISD at UMASS, Student Union Gallery at
UMASS Amherst, MA
2005 Expansion, Group Exhibition #1 by
nyfineart.com, New Century Artists, NY
Summer Festival “Art Students’ Exhibition
 in NY 2005,” Ise Cultural Foundation
Gallery, NY
Graduate Sculpture, Sol Koffler Gallery,
Rhode Island School of Design, RI
2004 Wood, Richard and Dolly Maas Gallery,
Purchase College, SUNY, NY
2003 Recent Work (solo), Art + Design,
Purchase College, SUNY, NY

SELECTED EXPERIENCE:

2022 University of Jan Evangelista in Ústí nad
Labem, Czech Republic
Instructor: “Reassembling the Body”
2021 Wassaic Project, NY
Artist in Residence
2019 Wassaic Project, NY
Artist in Residence
2018 Pacific Northwest College of Art, OR
Instructor: “Casting Call: Mold Making
 and Casting”
2017 Stevens Point Sculpture Park, WI
Artist in Residence
2012 Wassaic Project, NY
Artist in Residence
2009 Sculpture Space, NY
Artist in Residence
2008 Vermont Studio Center, VT
Artist in Residence
2006 Rhode Island School of Design, RI
Instructor of Record: “Mmm….Molds”
2003-04 Hurricane Mountain: A Center for Earth
Arts, NY
Artist in Residence

AWARDS:

2026 State of the Art Prize, Creative Capital, NY
2025 Mary Lily Research Travel Grant, Sallie
Bingham Center, Duke University, NC
2024 Interlude Artist Support Grant, Interlude
Artist Residency, NY
2022 Make Art Grant, Rhode Island State
Council on the Arts, RI
2021 The Artist’s Resource Trust Fund,
Berkshire Taconic Community
Foundation, MA
2006 The Artist’s Resource Trust Fund,
Berkshire Taconic Community
Foundation, MA
2005 Juror’s Award, selected by Midori
Yoshimoto. Ise Cultural Foundation
Gallery, NY
2005 Honorable Mention, 2005 Outstanding
Student Achievement in Contemporary
Sculpture Award, International
Sculpture Center, NJ
2005 Sylvia Leslie Herman Young Scholarship,
Rhode Island School of Design, RI
2004 Jeanne Stahl Webber Scholarship, Rhode
Island School of Design, RI
2001-03 Art + Design Merit Scholarship, Purchase
College, SUNY, NY
2002 Elena Prentice Rulon-Miller Scholarship,
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts,
ME

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

May 31, 2022. "Luft, die man sehen kann," Christina
Böck, Wiener Zeitung.
May 2022. “Wenn der Wind weht,” Vernissage,
p.66-69.
Mar. 16, 2022. “Ausstellung mit Gebläse: Windig,
stürmisch, atemraubend,” Nicole
Scheyerer, Falter.
Mar. 16, 2020. "When Art Captures the Wind and
the Rain - and a Bit of Ourselves,”
Patrick Rogers, www.nrdc.org.
Feb. 15, 2020. “Getting Your Weather Report at the
Museum,” Louis Bury,
www.hyperallergic.com.
July 20, 2014. “Introducing Sculptures Referencing
Water Circulation,” Kitanippon Shimbun.
Oct. 13, 2013. “Nizayama Forest Art Museum,”
Osamu Kuga, d design travel TOYAMA,
D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT, p.27.
Sept. 19, 2013. “A Wave’s Moment, Expressed in
Glass,” Kitanippon Shimbun.
Sept. 4, 2013. “Individual Expressions of Water and
Time,” Satoki Hamamatsu, Kitanippon
Shimbun.
Jul. 15, 2013. “New Works Inspired by Water and
Time,” Kitanippon Shimbun.
Aug. 17, 2006. “Fresh Views,” Bill Rodriguez, The
Providence Phoenix.
Jul. 27, 2006. “Young Artists Reveal Edgy
Dimension,” Doug Norris, South County
Independent.
May 10, 2006. “The Art of Investing at Fidelity,”
Andrea L. Stape, The Providence
Journal.

EDUCATION:

2006 Rhode Island School of Design, RI
MFA Sculpture
2003 Purchase College, SUNY, NY
BFA Sculpture