Karen Shiozawa  graduated from ZOKEI University in Tokyo, where she studied fine arts and completed graduate school. Shiozawa has continuously sought to expand the realm of communication through her art. She projects childhood memories and everyday emotions onto her two dimensional works while developing three dimensional forms of expression, such as sound and light, to convey a world beyond mere visual perception. Shiozawa received the Best Formative Art Prize at the National Art Center, Tokyo in 2018, and the Excellence Award at the 48th Art Festival Tokyo Ten Exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in 2022. Her works were acquired by the Deji Art Museum in China in 2020.

 

 

Education

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2020 B.A. in Painting Major Tokyo Zokei University

2022 Completed Major in Fine Arts Graduate School of Tokyo Zokei University

2024 Member of Art Festival Tokyoten Member of Japan Artists Association

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Awards

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2022 48th Art Festival - Tokyoten (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum) Excellence Award

2021 47th Art Festival - Tokyoten (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum) Encouragement Award

2018 Asia Creative Art Exhibition

2018 (National Art Center, Tokyo) Best Artistic Award

2017 5 University Art Exchange Exhibition

2017 (Musashino Art University) Asia Creative Art Exhibition Award - Special Excellence Award

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Solo Exhibitions

 

2024 Secret Place - Finally Met, Whitestone Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2023 Gentle Light, Whitestone Ginza New Gallery, Ginza, Japan

2023 Masquerade of Light, Whitestone Gallery, Beijing, China 2022 Beyond the Sea of Melody, Karuisawa New Art Museum, Karuizawa, Japan

2022 Residents of Leap Second, Gallery and Links 81, Ginza, Japan

2022 Galaxy Carnival, Shiraishi Gallery, Taiwan

2020 Orgel of Light, Whitestone Ginza New Gallery, Ginza, Japan

2019 Residents of Leap Second, Gallery Kanon, Ginza, Japan

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Group Exhibitions

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2024 50th Art Festival - Tokyoten (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Ueno)

2024 Between Ambiguity and Clarity (Backstageart, Shanghai)

2024 Dance to Your Heartbeat (Empathy Gallery, Harajuku) 2024 MINI ◯ Exhibition (Sansiao Gallery, Nihonbashi)

2024 Transfiguration (GR Gallery, New York) 2023 49th Art Festival - Tokyoten(Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Ueno) 2023 WE LOVE KOREA (Whitestone Gallery Soul, South Korea)

2023 WE LOVE CHINA (Whitestone Gallery Beijing, China) 2023 WE LOVE SINGAPORE (Whitestone Gallery Singapore) 2022 48th Art Festival - Tokyoten(Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Ueno)

2022 Contrasting Confluences (Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong)

2021 Dimensions (Whitestone New Gallery, Ginza)

2021 47th Art Festival - Tokyoten (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Ueno)

2021 ART POINT Selection IV (Gallery ART POINT, Ginza) 2021 Tokyoten Art Association Small Works Exhibition (Gallery Seikodo, Ginza)

2020 Three-Person Exhibition (Gallery Niik, Omotesando) 2020 Little Fables (Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong)

2019 45th Art Festival - Tokyoten (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)

2019 Power of Art Selected Exhibition (Isetan Shinjuku Store) 2019 Past and Present Picture Scrolls Exhibition (GINZA SIX, Ginza)

2019 Power of Art (Isetan Shinjuku Store)

2018 Two - Uniquely Talented (Gallery Niik, Omotesando)

2018 44th Art Festival - Tokyoten (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)

2018 Appearance (Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre)

2018 Resonating World (Group Exhibition of Four Artists) (Gallery Kanon, Ginza)

2018 Exhibition of Otherworldly Objects (Ginza Mitsukoshi) 2018 Asia Creative Art Exhibition (National Art Center, Tokyo) 2017 43rd Art Festival - Tokyoten (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)

2017 99 Artists Exhibition (Gallery Q, Ginza)

2017 5 University Art Exchange Exhibition

2017 (Musashino Art University)

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Art Fairs

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2024 ART BUSAN

2024 (South Korea)

2024 Art Central Hong Kong 2024 (Hong Kong)

2024 ArtSG 2024 (Singapore)

2023 ART TAIPEI 2023 (Taiwan)

2023 ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair 2023 (Shanghai)

2023 ART BUSAN 2023 (South Korea)

2023 Art Central Hong Kong 2023 (Hong Kong)

2022 JINGART 2022 (Beijing)

2022 ONE ART Taipei 2022 (Taiwan)

2021 Beijing Contemporary Art Expo 2021 (Beijing)

2021 ART TAIPEI 2021 (Taiwan) 2020

ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair 2020 (Shanghai)