CV & CONTACT
EDUCATION
2009 – 2011 Master of Fine Arts, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
EXHIBITION
2016 Different Light, unipon2kau2 art project space, Osaka, Japan
2016 Aesthetic Order, Makii Masaru Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Beyond Contamination PSi 2015 Tohoku, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan
2014 Drawing Exhibition, Art Waiting Room, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Tokyo Story 2014, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo, Japan
2014 3331 ALLART!, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Chiyoda Art Festival, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Life-time Project, Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
2012 Life-time Project, platform02, Oita, Japan
2012 Rapid Pulse International Performance Festival, Defibrillator, Chicago, IL, USA
2012 Territorial Testimonial, Grace Exhibition Space, New York, NY, USA
2012 Vermont Studio Center Exhibition, Red Mill Gallery, Johnson, VT, USA
2012 The Next Generation, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL, USA
2011 31st Century Museum of Contemporary Spirit Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL, USA
2011 Burren College of Art Exhibition, Burren, Ireland
2011 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Exhibition, Deer Isle, ME, USA
2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL, USA
2011 aWay, Boomerang Space, Chicago, IL, USA
2010 – 2011 Nippon Steel Presidential Award Exhibition, Nippon Steel USA Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2010 A Fickle Existence, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL, USA
2009 I am with you, Base Space, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
2008 Sculpture as Medicine, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL, USA
AWARDS & GRANTS
2015 Arts Initiative Tokyo, Artist Practice Program Scholarship, Japan
2013 Chiyoda Art Festival, Mizuki Endo Award, Japan
2013 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, USA
2012 Beppu Art Award, Japan
2012 Vermont Studio Center / Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, USA
2011 John W. Kurtich Foundation Scholarship, USA
2011 Mary Beasom Bishop and Francis Sumner Merritt Scholarship, USA
2010 Nippon Steel Presidential Award, USA
2009 – 2011 SAIC Trustee Merit Scholarship, Master of Fine Arts program, USA
2009 – 2011 SAIC Annual Student Leadership Award, USA
2008 – 2009 SAIC Incentive Scholarship, Post Baccalaureate program, USA
RESIDENCY
2013 – 2014 Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan
2013 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, USA
2012 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, USA
2011 Burren College of Art, Burren, Ireland
LANGUAGE Fluent in written and spoken Japanese, English, Chinese
CONTACT saikokase{at}gmail.com