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The 50th artist room was created by artist Wakako Kawakami & Nagisa Nakauchi. The production is completed on October, 2025.
Room #3423 | Completion Date: 2025.10
Born in Osaka, currently lives in Tokyo
Completed the Post-Graduate Course (Fine Arts) of Musashino Art University, Junior College of Art and Design, Department of Fine Arts in 1992. She began presenting her own exhibitions in 1995. Since then, She has made a name for herself with numerous large-scale fabric installations, including human figures (“Hitogata”), life-sized dolls modeled after herself, and dandelion motifs. She works alone in her studio and continues to create prolifically every day. In recent years, her signature projects have featured immersive environments inhabited by flocks of life-sized budgerigars (parakeets). Selected for the 2nd Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art. Recent major exhibitions include the solo exhibition “Pico and Peeta” (2024 / @btf / Tokyo), “Semijikan – Parakeets’ Excursion” (2019 / Kakurin Temple / Hyogo), “Rokko Meets Art 2018” (Hyogo), “Art Line Kashiwa 2018 – Smiling” (Chiba), and the solo exhibition “Winter Festival” (2015 / Park Hotel Tokyo 25F / Tokyo).
A painter who draws on old books.
She spent her early childhood in Argentina, where she developed a fascination with foreign cultures and landscapes.
Through her travels to various countries, she taught herself sketching.
She continues to travel the world and creates art only from things that move her heart.
Graduated from the Department of Spanish, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Starting with a solo exhibition in Paraguay, she has held solo exhibitions at Isetan Shinjuku Main Store Art Gallery, the National Gallery of the Children’s Museum (Costa Rica), the Embassy of Spain in Japan, Ivy Brown Gallery (New York), LOEWE Ginza Main Store, Instituto Cervantes Tokyo, and Shimada Museum Gallery. She is also the author of Sketch-Traveling Spain (published by Ediman), among other works.