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