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Born in Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture in 1958. In 1979, she joined the IAF Art Research Laboratory, and after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art, Kyushu Sangyo University in 1981, she moved to Tokyo and studied at the alternative contemporary art school B-Zemi Schooling System (B-Zemi) in Yokohama. From the 1980s through the 1990s, she repeatedly engaged in various experiments and productions while holding solo exhibitions at venues such as Hillside Gallery and Skydoor.

In the late 1990s, she relocated her base of activities to Yame, Fukuoka, where she launched the Yame Haze Research Society and organized workshops. She has energetically continued her practice, using materials such as Japan wax, Yame washi paper, and konnyaku glue, while also incorporating the region’s climate, people, and labor as motifs in her works.

Her major solo exhibitions include Travelling Greenhorn (Gallery Artlier, 2008), 40 Years: Drawing and Housewife (Fukuoka Art Museum, Gallery E, 2020), Bird’s Meuo no Me and Mr. Nagatsune (Patria Hita, 2021), Double Helix Will Not Entangle (Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 2022), Radiance of Hamuro – From Craftswomen’s Rain to Experimentation (EUREKA, etc., 2023), and Grinning Chlorophyll (Kyushu Sangyo University Museum, 2024).

Her major group exhibitions include The 30th Exhibition of Contemporary Artists – The Universe on the Ocean: Contemporary Art of Asia-Pacific (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, 1995), Art that Works on the Body (Kyushu Geibunkan, 2015), and Food and Contemporary Art vol.8: Art, Food and City (BankART KAIKO, 2021).

Born in Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture in 1958. In 1979, she joined the IAF Art Research Laboratory, and after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art, Kyushu Sangyo University in 1981, she moved to Tokyo and studied at the alternative contemporary art school B-Zemi Schooling System (B-Zemi) in Yokohama. From the 1980s through the 1990s, she repeatedly engaged in various experiments and productions while holding solo exhibitions at venues such as Hillside Gallery and Skydoor.

In the late 1990s, she relocated her base of activities to Yame, Fukuoka, where she launched the Yame Haze Research Society and organized workshops. She has energetically continued her practice, using materials such as Japan wax, Yame washi paper, and konnyaku glue, while also incorporating the region’s climate, people, and labor as motifs in her works.

Her major solo exhibitions include Travelling Greenhorn (Gallery Artlier, 2008), 40 Years: Drawing and Housewife (Fukuoka Art Museum, Gallery E, 2020), Bird’s Meuo no Me and Mr. Nagatsune (Patria Hita, 2021), Double Helix Will Not Entangle (Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 2022), Radiance of Hamuro – From Craftswomen’s Rain to Experimentation (EUREKA, etc., 2023), and Grinning Chlorophyll (Kyushu Sangyo University Museum, 2024).

Her major group exhibitions include The 30th Exhibition of Contemporary Artists – The Universe on the Ocean: Contemporary Art of Asia-Pacific (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, 1995), Art that Works on the Body (Kyushu Geibunkan, 2015), and Food and Contemporary Art vol.8: Art, Food and City (BankART KAIKO, 2021).

Born in Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture in 1958. In 1979, she joined the IAF Art Research Laboratory, and after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art, Kyushu Sangyo University in 1981, she moved to Tokyo and studied at the alternative contemporary art school B-Zemi Schooling System (B-Zemi) in Yokohama. From the 1980s through the 1990s, she repeatedly engaged in various experiments and productions while holding solo exhibitions at venues such as Hillside Gallery and Skydoor.

In the late 1990s, she relocated her base of activities to Yame, Fukuoka, where she launched the Yame Haze Research Society and organized workshops. She has energetically continued her practice, using materials such as Japan wax, Yame washi paper, and konnyaku glue, while also incorporating the region’s climate, people, and labor as motifs in her works.

Her major solo exhibitions include Travelling Greenhorn (Gallery Artlier, 2008), 40 Years: Drawing and Housewife (Fukuoka Art Museum, Gallery E, 2020), Bird’s Meuo no Me and Mr. Nagatsune (Patria Hita, 2021), Double Helix Will Not Entangle (Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 2022), Radiance of Hamuro – From Craftswomen’s Rain to Experimentation (EUREKA, etc., 2023), and Grinning Chlorophyll (Kyushu Sangyo University Museum, 2024).

Her major group exhibitions include The 30th Exhibition of Contemporary Artists – The Universe on the Ocean: Contemporary Art of Asia-Pacific (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, 1995), Art that Works on the Body (Kyushu Geibunkan, 2015), and Food and Contemporary Art vol.8: Art, Food and City (BankART KAIKO, 2021).

Born in Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture in 1958. In 1979, she joined the IAF Art Research Laboratory, and after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art, Kyushu Sangyo University in 1981, she moved to Tokyo and studied at the alternative contemporary art school B-Zemi Schooling System (B-Zemi) in Yokohama. From the 1980s through the 1990s, she repeatedly engaged in various experiments and productions while holding solo exhibitions at venues such as Hillside Gallery and Skydoor.

In the late 1990s, she relocated her base of activities to Yame, Fukuoka, where she launched the Yame Haze Research Society and organized workshops. She has energetically continued her practice, using materials such as Japan wax, Yame washi paper, and konnyaku glue, while also incorporating the region’s climate, people, and labor as motifs in her works.

Her major solo exhibitions include Travelling Greenhorn (Gallery Artlier, 2008), 40 Years: Drawing and Housewife (Fukuoka Art Museum, Gallery E, 2020), Bird’s Meuo no Me and Mr. Nagatsune (Patria Hita, 2021), Double Helix Will Not Entangle (Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 2022), Radiance of Hamuro – From Craftswomen’s Rain to Experimentation (EUREKA, etc., 2023), and Grinning Chlorophyll (Kyushu Sangyo University Museum, 2024).

Her major group exhibitions include The 30th Exhibition of Contemporary Artists – The Universe on the Ocean: Contemporary Art of Asia-Pacific (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, 1995), Art that Works on the Body (Kyushu Geibunkan, 2015), and Food and Contemporary Art vol.8: Art, Food and City (BankART KAIKO, 2021).

Born in Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture in 1958. In 1979, she joined the IAF Art Research Laboratory, and after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art, Kyushu Sangyo University in 1981, she moved to Tokyo and studied at the alternative contemporary art school B-Zemi Schooling System (B-Zemi) in Yokohama. From the 1980s through the 1990s, she repeatedly engaged in various experiments and productions while holding solo exhibitions at venues such as Hillside Gallery and Skydoor.

In the late 1990s, she relocated her base of activities to Yame, Fukuoka, where she launched the Yame Haze Research Society and organized workshops. She has energetically continued her practice, using materials such as Japan wax, Yame washi paper, and konnyaku glue, while also incorporating the region’s climate, people, and labor as motifs in her works.

Her major solo exhibitions include Travelling Greenhorn (Gallery Artlier, 2008), 40 Years: Drawing and Housewife (Fukuoka Art Museum, Gallery E, 2020), Bird’s Meuo no Me and Mr. Nagatsune (Patria Hita, 2021), Double Helix Will Not Entangle (Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 2022), Radiance of Hamuro – From Craftswomen’s Rain to Experimentation (EUREKA, etc., 2023), and Grinning Chlorophyll (Kyushu Sangyo University Museum, 2024).

Her major group exhibitions include The 30th Exhibition of Contemporary Artists – The Universe on the Ocean: Contemporary Art of Asia-Pacific (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, 1995), Art that Works on the Body (Kyushu Geibunkan, 2015), and Food and Contemporary Art vol.8: Art, Food and City (BankART KAIKO, 2021).

Born in Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture in 1958. In 1979, she joined the IAF Art Research Laboratory, and after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art, Kyushu Sangyo University in 1981, she moved to Tokyo and studied at the alternative contemporary art school B-Zemi Schooling System (B-Zemi) in Yokohama. From the 1980s through the 1990s, she repeatedly engaged in various experiments and productions while holding solo exhibitions at venues such as Hillside Gallery and Skydoor.

In the late 1990s, she relocated her base of activities to Yame, Fukuoka, where she launched the Yame Haze Research Society and organized workshops. She has energetically continued her practice, using materials such as Japan wax, Yame washi paper, and konnyaku glue, while also incorporating the region’s climate, people, and labor as motifs in her works.

Her major solo exhibitions include Travelling Greenhorn (Gallery Artlier, 2008), 40 Years: Drawing and Housewife (Fukuoka Art Museum, Gallery E, 2020), Bird’s Meuo no Me and Mr. Nagatsune (Patria Hita, 2021), Double Helix Will Not Entangle (Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 2022), Radiance of Hamuro – From Craftswomen’s Rain to Experimentation (EUREKA, etc., 2023), and Grinning Chlorophyll (Kyushu Sangyo University Museum, 2024).

Her major group exhibitions include The 30th Exhibition of Contemporary Artists – The Universe on the Ocean: Contemporary Art of Asia-Pacific (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, 1995), Art that Works on the Body (Kyushu Geibunkan, 2015), and Food and Contemporary Art vol.8: Art, Food and City (BankART KAIKO, 2021).

Born in Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture in 1958. In 1979, she joined the IAF Art Research Laboratory, and after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art, Kyushu Sangyo University in 1981, she moved to Tokyo and studied at the alternative contemporary art school B-Zemi Schooling System (B-Zemi) in Yokohama. From the 1980s through the 1990s, she repeatedly engaged in various experiments and productions while holding solo exhibitions at venues such as Hillside Gallery and Skydoor.

In the late 1990s, she relocated her base of activities to Yame, Fukuoka, where she launched the Yame Haze Research Society and organized workshops. She has energetically continued her practice, using materials such as Japan wax, Yame washi paper, and konnyaku glue, while also incorporating the region’s climate, people, and labor as motifs in her works.

Her major solo exhibitions include Travelling Greenhorn (Gallery Artlier, 2008), 40 Years: Drawing and Housewife (Fukuoka Art Museum, Gallery E, 2020), Bird’s Meuo no Me and Mr. Nagatsune (Patria Hita, 2021), Double Helix Will Not Entangle (Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 2022), Radiance of Hamuro – From Craftswomen’s Rain to Experimentation (EUREKA, etc., 2023), and Grinning Chlorophyll (Kyushu Sangyo University Museum, 2024).

Her major group exhibitions include The 30th Exhibition of Contemporary Artists – The Universe on the Ocean: Contemporary Art of Asia-Pacific (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, 1995), Art that Works on the Body (Kyushu Geibunkan, 2015), and Food and Contemporary Art vol.8: Art, Food and City (BankART KAIKO, 2021).

Born in Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture in 1958. In 1979, she joined the IAF Art Research Laboratory, and after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art, Kyushu Sangyo University in 1981, she moved to Tokyo and studied at the alternative contemporary art school B-Zemi Schooling System (B-Zemi) in Yokohama. From the 1980s through the 1990s, she repeatedly engaged in various experiments and productions while holding solo exhibitions at venues such as Hillside Gallery and Skydoor.

In the late 1990s, she relocated her base of activities to Yame, Fukuoka, where she launched the Yame Haze Research Society and organized workshops. She has energetically continued her practice, using materials such as Japan wax, Yame washi paper, and konnyaku glue, while also incorporating the region’s climate, people, and labor as motifs in her works.

Her major solo exhibitions include Travelling Greenhorn (Gallery Artlier, 2008), 40 Years: Drawing and Housewife (Fukuoka Art Museum, Gallery E, 2020), Bird’s Meuo no Me and Mr. Nagatsune (Patria Hita, 2021), Double Helix Will Not Entangle (Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 2022), Radiance of Hamuro – From Craftswomen’s Rain to Experimentation (EUREKA, etc., 2023), and Grinning Chlorophyll (Kyushu Sangyo University Museum, 2024).

Her major group exhibitions include The 30th Exhibition of Contemporary Artists – The Universe on the Ocean: Contemporary Art of Asia-Pacific (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, 1995), Art that Works on the Body (Kyushu Geibunkan, 2015), and Food and Contemporary Art vol.8: Art, Food and City (BankART KAIKO, 2021).

Born in Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture in 1958. In 1979, she joined the IAF Art Research Laboratory, and after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art, Kyushu Sangyo University in 1981, she moved to Tokyo and studied at the alternative contemporary art school B-Zemi Schooling System (B-Zemi) in Yokohama. From the 1980s through the 1990s, she repeatedly engaged in various experiments and productions while holding solo exhibitions at venues such as Hillside Gallery and Skydoor.

In the late 1990s, she relocated her base of activities to Yame, Fukuoka, where she launched the Yame Haze Research Society and organized workshops. She has energetically continued her practice, using materials such as Japan wax, Yame washi paper, and konnyaku glue, while also incorporating the region’s climate, people, and labor as motifs in her works.

Her major solo exhibitions include Travelling Greenhorn (Gallery Artlier, 2008), 40 Years: Drawing and Housewife (Fukuoka Art Museum, Gallery E, 2020), Bird’s Meuo no Me and Mr. Nagatsune (Patria Hita, 2021), Double Helix Will Not Entangle (Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 2022), Radiance of Hamuro – From Craftswomen’s Rain to Experimentation (EUREKA, etc., 2023), and Grinning Chlorophyll (Kyushu Sangyo University Museum, 2024).

Her major group exhibitions include The 30th Exhibition of Contemporary Artists – The Universe on the Ocean: Contemporary Art of Asia-Pacific (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, 1995), Art that Works on the Body (Kyushu Geibunkan, 2015), and Food and Contemporary Art vol.8: Art, Food and City (BankART KAIKO, 2021).

Born in Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture in 1958. In 1979, she joined the IAF Art Research Laboratory, and after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art, Kyushu Sangyo University in 1981, she moved to Tokyo and studied at the alternative contemporary art school B-Zemi Schooling System (B-Zemi) in Yokohama. From the 1980s through the 1990s, she repeatedly engaged in various experiments and productions while holding solo exhibitions at venues such as Hillside Gallery and Skydoor.

In the late 1990s, she relocated her base of activities to Yame, Fukuoka, where she launched the Yame Haze Research Society and organized workshops. She has energetically continued her practice, using materials such as Japan wax, Yame washi paper, and konnyaku glue, while also incorporating the region’s climate, people, and labor as motifs in her works.

Her major solo exhibitions include Travelling Greenhorn (Gallery Artlier, 2008), 40 Years: Drawing and Housewife (Fukuoka Art Museum, Gallery E, 2020), Bird’s Meuo no Me and Mr. Nagatsune (Patria Hita, 2021), Double Helix Will Not Entangle (Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 2022), Radiance of Hamuro – From Craftswomen’s Rain to Experimentation (EUREKA, etc., 2023), and Grinning Chlorophyll (Kyushu Sangyo University Museum, 2024).

Her major group exhibitions include The 30th Exhibition of Contemporary Artists – The Universe on the Ocean: Contemporary Art of Asia-Pacific (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, 1995), Art that Works on the Body (Kyushu Geibunkan, 2015), and Food and Contemporary Art vol.8: Art, Food and City (BankART KAIKO, 2021).

Born in Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture in 1958. In 1979, she joined the IAF Art Research Laboratory, and after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art, Kyushu Sangyo University in 1981, she moved to Tokyo and studied at the alternative contemporary art school B-Zemi Schooling System (B-Zemi) in Yokohama. From the 1980s through the 1990s, she repeatedly engaged in various experiments and productions while holding solo exhibitions at venues such as Hillside Gallery and Skydoor.

In the late 1990s, she relocated her base of activities to Yame, Fukuoka, where she launched the Yame Haze Research Society and organized workshops. She has energetically continued her practice, using materials such as Japan wax, Yame washi paper, and konnyaku glue, while also incorporating the region’s climate, people, and labor as motifs in her works.

Her major solo exhibitions include Travelling Greenhorn (Gallery Artlier, 2008), 40 Years: Drawing and Housewife (Fukuoka Art Museum, Gallery E, 2020), Bird’s Meuo no Me and Mr. Nagatsune (Patria Hita, 2021), Double Helix Will Not Entangle (Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 2022), Radiance of Hamuro – From Craftswomen’s Rain to Experimentation (EUREKA, etc., 2023), and Grinning Chlorophyll (Kyushu Sangyo University Museum, 2024).

Her major group exhibitions include The 30th Exhibition of Contemporary Artists – The Universe on the Ocean: Contemporary Art of Asia-Pacific (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, 1995), Art that Works on the Body (Kyushu Geibunkan, 2015), and Food and Contemporary Art vol.8: Art, Food and City (BankART KAIKO, 2021).

Born in Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture in 1958. In 1979, she joined the IAF Art Research Laboratory, and after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art, Kyushu Sangyo University in 1981, she moved to Tokyo and studied at the alternative contemporary art school B-Zemi Schooling System (B-Zemi) in Yokohama. From the 1980s through the 1990s, she repeatedly engaged in various experiments and productions while holding solo exhibitions at venues such as Hillside Gallery and Skydoor.

In the late 1990s, she relocated her base of activities to Yame, Fukuoka, where she launched the Yame Haze Research Society and organized workshops. She has energetically continued her practice, using materials such as Japan wax, Yame washi paper, and konnyaku glue, while also incorporating the region’s climate, people, and labor as motifs in her works.

Her major solo exhibitions include Travelling Greenhorn (Gallery Artlier, 2008), 40 Years: Drawing and Housewife (Fukuoka Art Museum, Gallery E, 2020), Bird’s Meuo no Me and Mr. Nagatsune (Patria Hita, 2021), Double Helix Will Not Entangle (Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 2022), Radiance of Hamuro – From Craftswomen’s Rain to Experimentation (EUREKA, etc., 2023), and Grinning Chlorophyll (Kyushu Sangyo University Museum, 2024).

Her major group exhibitions include The 30th Exhibition of Contemporary Artists – The Universe on the Ocean: Contemporary Art of Asia-Pacific (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, 1995), Art that Works on the Body (Kyushu Geibunkan, 2015), and Food and Contemporary Art vol.8: Art, Food and City (BankART KAIKO, 2021).

Born in Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture in 1958. In 1979, she joined the IAF Art Research Laboratory, and after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art, Kyushu Sangyo University in 1981, she moved to Tokyo and studied at the alternative contemporary art school B-Zemi Schooling System (B-Zemi) in Yokohama. From the 1980s through the 1990s, she repeatedly engaged in various experiments and productions while holding solo exhibitions at venues such as Hillside Gallery and Skydoor.

In the late 1990s, she relocated her base of activities to Yame, Fukuoka, where she launched the Yame Haze Research Society and organized workshops. She has energetically continued her practice, using materials such as Japan wax, Yame washi paper, and konnyaku glue, while also incorporating the region’s climate, people, and labor as motifs in her works.

Her major solo exhibitions include Travelling Greenhorn (Gallery Artlier, 2008), 40 Years: Drawing and Housewife (Fukuoka Art Museum, Gallery E, 2020), Bird’s Meuo no Me and Mr. Nagatsune (Patria Hita, 2021), Double Helix Will Not Entangle (Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 2022), Radiance of Hamuro – From Craftswomen’s Rain to Experimentation (EUREKA, etc., 2023), and Grinning Chlorophyll (Kyushu Sangyo University Museum, 2024).

Her major group exhibitions include The 30th Exhibition of Contemporary Artists – The Universe on the Ocean: Contemporary Art of Asia-Pacific (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, 1995), Art that Works on the Body (Kyushu Geibunkan, 2015), and Food and Contemporary Art vol.8: Art, Food and City (BankART KAIKO, 2021).

Born in Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture in 1958. In 1979, she joined the IAF Art Research Laboratory, and after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art, Kyushu Sangyo University in 1981, she moved to Tokyo and studied at the alternative contemporary art school B-Zemi Schooling System (B-Zemi) in Yokohama. From the 1980s through the 1990s, she repeatedly engaged in various experiments and productions while holding solo exhibitions at venues such as Hillside Gallery and Skydoor.

In the late 1990s, she relocated her base of activities to Yame, Fukuoka, where she launched the Yame Haze Research Society and organized workshops. She has energetically continued her practice, using materials such as Japan wax, Yame washi paper, and konnyaku glue, while also incorporating the region’s climate, people, and labor as motifs in her works.

Her major solo exhibitions include Travelling Greenhorn (Gallery Artlier, 2008), 40 Years: Drawing and Housewife (Fukuoka Art Museum, Gallery E, 2020), Bird’s Meuo no Me and Mr. Nagatsune (Patria Hita, 2021), Double Helix Will Not Entangle (Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 2022), Radiance of Hamuro – From Craftswomen’s Rain to Experimentation (EUREKA, etc., 2023), and Grinning Chlorophyll (Kyushu Sangyo University Museum, 2024).

Her major group exhibitions include The 30th Exhibition of Contemporary Artists – The Universe on the Ocean: Contemporary Art of Asia-Pacific (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, 1995), Art that Works on the Body (Kyushu Geibunkan, 2015), and Food and Contemporary Art vol.8: Art, Food and City (BankART KAIKO, 2021).

Born in Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture in 1958. In 1979, she joined the IAF Art Research Laboratory, and after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art, Kyushu Sangyo University in 1981, she moved to Tokyo and studied at the alternative contemporary art school B-Zemi Schooling System (B-Zemi) in Yokohama. From the 1980s through the 1990s, she repeatedly engaged in various experiments and productions while holding solo exhibitions at venues such as Hillside Gallery and Skydoor.

In the late 1990s, she relocated her base of activities to Yame, Fukuoka, where she launched the Yame Haze Research Society and organized workshops. She has energetically continued her practice, using materials such as Japan wax, Yame washi paper, and konnyaku glue, while also incorporating the region’s climate, people, and labor as motifs in her works.

Her major solo exhibitions include Travelling Greenhorn (Gallery Artlier, 2008), 40 Years: Drawing and Housewife (Fukuoka Art Museum, Gallery E, 2020), Bird’s Meuo no Me and Mr. Nagatsune (Patria Hita, 2021), Double Helix Will Not Entangle (Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 2022), Radiance of Hamuro – From Craftswomen’s Rain to Experimentation (EUREKA, etc., 2023), and Grinning Chlorophyll (Kyushu Sangyo University Museum, 2024).

Her major group exhibitions include The 30th Exhibition of Contemporary Artists – The Universe on the Ocean: Contemporary Art of Asia-Pacific (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, 1995), Art that Works on the Body (Kyushu Geibunkan, 2015), and Food and Contemporary Art vol.8: Art, Food and City (BankART KAIKO, 2021).

Born in Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture in 1958. In 1979, she joined the IAF Art Research Laboratory, and after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art, Kyushu Sangyo University in 1981, she moved to Tokyo and studied at the alternative contemporary art school B-Zemi Schooling System (B-Zemi) in Yokohama. From the 1980s through the 1990s, she repeatedly engaged in various experiments and productions while holding solo exhibitions at venues such as Hillside Gallery and Skydoor.

In the late 1990s, she relocated her base of activities to Yame, Fukuoka, where she launched the Yame Haze Research Society and organized workshops. She has energetically continued her practice, using materials such as Japan wax, Yame washi paper, and konnyaku glue, while also incorporating the region’s climate, people, and labor as motifs in her works.

Her major solo exhibitions include Travelling Greenhorn (Gallery Artlier, 2008), 40 Years: Drawing and Housewife (Fukuoka Art Museum, Gallery E, 2020), Bird’s Meuo no Me and Mr. Nagatsune (Patria Hita, 2021), Double Helix Will Not Entangle (Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 2022), Radiance of Hamuro – From Craftswomen’s Rain to Experimentation (EUREKA, etc., 2023), and Grinning Chlorophyll (Kyushu Sangyo University Museum, 2024).

Her major group exhibitions include The 30th Exhibition of Contemporary Artists – The Universe on the Ocean: Contemporary Art of Asia-Pacific (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, 1995), Art that Works on the Body (Kyushu Geibunkan, 2015), and Food and Contemporary Art vol.8: Art, Food and City (BankART KAIKO, 2021).

Born in Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture in 1958. In 1979, she joined the IAF Art Research Laboratory, and after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art, Kyushu Sangyo University in 1981, she moved to Tokyo and studied at the alternative contemporary art school B-Zemi Schooling System (B-Zemi) in Yokohama. From the 1980s through the 1990s, she repeatedly engaged in various experiments and productions while holding solo exhibitions at venues such as Hillside Gallery and Skydoor.

In the late 1990s, she relocated her base of activities to Yame, Fukuoka, where she launched the Yame Haze Research Society and organized workshops. She has energetically continued her practice, using materials such as Japan wax, Yame washi paper, and konnyaku glue, while also incorporating the region’s climate, people, and labor as motifs in her works.

Her major solo exhibitions include Travelling Greenhorn (Gallery Artlier, 2008), 40 Years: Drawing and Housewife (Fukuoka Art Museum, Gallery E, 2020), Bird’s Meuo no Me and Mr. Nagatsune (Patria Hita, 2021), Double Helix Will Not Entangle (Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 2022), Radiance of Hamuro – From Craftswomen’s Rain to Experimentation (EUREKA, etc., 2023), and Grinning Chlorophyll (Kyushu Sangyo University Museum, 2024).

Her major group exhibitions include The 30th Exhibition of Contemporary Artists – The Universe on the Ocean: Contemporary Art of Asia-Pacific (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, 1995), Art that Works on the Body (Kyushu Geibunkan, 2015), and Food and Contemporary Art vol.8: Art, Food and City (BankART KAIKO, 2021).

Busui Ajaw (b. 1986, Mae Suai, Thailand) is a self-taught painter who creates works that draw from her everyday experiences as a woman in the contemporary world as well as her roots as an Akha ethnic minority. Since she began drawing at age 15, she has developed an expressive painterly language to communicate both the seen and unseen as well as the material and the psychological.
Ajaw has had solo exhibition at nca | nichido contemporary art、Tokyo, Japan (2023)、BANK- MABSOCIETY , Shanghai, China and others. She also participated international exhibition such as, 13th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany (2025), Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, Thailand (2024), MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand (2024),
“Earth, Wind, and Fire: Visions of the Future from Asia – curated by Mami Kataoka”, Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo (2024), Thailand Biennale Chiang Rai 2023, Chiang Rai, Thailand (2023), Singapore Biennale, Singapore (2019 -20) and others.

Busui Ajaw (b. 1986, Mae Suai, Thailand) is a self-taught painter who creates works that draw from her everyday experiences as a woman in the contemporary world as well as her roots as an Akha ethnic minority. Since she began drawing at age 15, she has developed an expressive painterly language to communicate both the seen and unseen as well as the material and the psychological.
Ajaw has had solo exhibition at nca | nichido contemporary art、Tokyo, Japan (2023)、BANK- MABSOCIETY , Shanghai, China and others. She also participated international exhibition such as, 13th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany (2025), Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, Thailand (2024), MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand (2024),
“Earth, Wind, and Fire: Visions of the Future from Asia – curated by Mami Kataoka”, Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo (2024), Thailand Biennale Chiang Rai 2023, Chiang Rai, Thailand (2023), Singapore Biennale, Singapore (2019 -20) and others.

Busui Ajaw (b. 1986, Mae Suai, Thailand) is a self-taught painter who creates works that draw from her everyday experiences as a woman in the contemporary world as well as her roots as an Akha ethnic minority. Since she began drawing at age 15, she has developed an expressive painterly language to communicate both the seen and unseen as well as the material and the psychological.
Ajaw has had solo exhibition at nca | nichido contemporary art、Tokyo, Japan (2023)、BANK- MABSOCIETY , Shanghai, China and others. She also participated international exhibition such as, 13th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany (2025), Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, Thailand (2024), MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand (2024),
“Earth, Wind, and Fire: Visions of the Future from Asia – curated by Mami Kataoka”, Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo (2024), Thailand Biennale Chiang Rai 2023, Chiang Rai, Thailand (2023), Singapore Biennale, Singapore (2019 -20) and others.

Busui Ajaw (b. 1986, Mae Suai, Thailand) is a self-taught painter who creates works that draw from her everyday experiences as a woman in the contemporary world as well as her roots as an Akha ethnic minority. Since she began drawing at age 15, she has developed an expressive painterly language to communicate both the seen and unseen as well as the material and the psychological.
Ajaw has had solo exhibition at nca | nichido contemporary art、Tokyo, Japan (2023)、BANK- MABSOCIETY , Shanghai, China and others. She also participated international exhibition such as, 13th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany (2025), Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, Thailand (2024), MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand (2024),
“Earth, Wind, and Fire: Visions of the Future from Asia – curated by Mami Kataoka”, Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo (2024), Thailand Biennale Chiang Rai 2023, Chiang Rai, Thailand (2023), Singapore Biennale, Singapore (2019 -20) and others.