BIO

MioKasai spent her childhood in the United States, where she began tap/hip-hop dance and other forms of physical expression.
As Mio grew older, she became aware of her synesthesia, and began painting out of a desire to see the visual colors associated with the sounds of her favorite bands.

In this days when mechanization is progressing in every aspect, Mio focuses on using her innate senses, translating sounds, emotions and thoughts to the color in her works.
The strokes in her works show that the physical expressions she has been using since childhood are also reflected in her paintings.

Based on the idea that humans are natural things and facing the universal questions that arise in the life of human beings, she express the relationship between people and modern society and "life" in a visible way, mainly in oil painting.

1992年愛知県生まれのDANCER／ARTIST 幼少期をアメリカで過ごし、タップ・HIPHOPダンス等身体表現を始める。
年を重ねるにつれ自身がシナスタジア（共感覚）である事を自覚し好きなバンドの音から連想される映像的色彩を目で見たいという欲求から絵画制作を開始。
あらゆる面で機械化が進む現代だからこそ自身が元来持つ感覚を使う事に注目し、音や感情・思考から影響を受けて色を選び作品制作に取り組んでいる。
作品に描かれる線のストロークからは幼少期より続けてきた身体表現が絵画表現にも反映されている事が伺える。
自然物である人間が生きてく中で湧き上がる普遍的な問いと向き合い、人と現代社会との関係性や“生”についてを油画製作を中心に目に見える形で表現している。

CV               

Born in 1992 Aichi, Japan
moved to Maryland , USA 1995-2000
back to Aichi/Kyoto , Japan
Resides and works in Berlin, Germany from 2024


Education/training:
2018-2022:Fashion Techniques/ Fashion Techniques, Nagoya Mode Gakuen College of  Fashion, Aichi, Japan


Solo exhibitions:
2022:ヒカリノヨウナモノ = Something like a light, LILLT, Aichi, Japan
2024:SHISEN -wave your LIFELINE-, INHERIT GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan



Two person exhibitions:
2021:Mio Kasai×Kanji Okuoka Collaboration exhibition, IN THE LONG RUN ,  Gifu, Japan


Group exhibitions:
2020: 路上×路常×路情＝ROJYO×ROJYO×ROJYO , MARUICHI GALLERY, Gifu, Japan
2024:土(soil)×音(sound)×体(body), Groove Doughnuts galleryspace, Kyoto, Japan
2024:STUDIO HAIDENBAN GROUP EXHIBITION, Hankyu MEN’S OSAKA Contemporary Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2024:OPEN ARTIST’S STUDIO STUDIO HAIDENBAN, Kyoto, Japan