OKIMI Karen

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Born in Wakayama in 1991. Lives and works in Kyoto. Graduated with an MFA in Oil Painting from Kyoto City University of Arts in 2023.

Okimi Karen explores a mode of painting that examines the relationship between perception and movement, such as the dazzling light perceived at the moment the eyes open, and the ways in which changes in the field of vision caused by movement elicit bodily responses. Through multiple processes of transformation, she seeks to establish pure images as realities in their own right, grounded in the actuality of the places she inhabits and in embodied sensation. 

Recent Exhibitions:
2024 “ALLOS and ERGON,” POOL SIDE GALLERY, Kanazawa
2024 “Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2024 - Selected New Artists from Kyoto Prefecture,” The Museum of Kyoto
2023 “Eyes to the Island / summer solstice, outer edge,” FINCH ARTS, Kyoto

Recent Activity:
2024 “Interview Project Karen Okimi × Hideki Sabae,” Kyoto Seika University

Recent Award:
2016 “Selected New Artists from Kyoto Prefecture,” Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa International Exchange Award

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