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Saya Hanawa was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1991. She has a BFA in oil painting from the Tokyo University of the Arts (2014) and MFA in Fine Arts from School of Visual Arts (2018). She is making works that are concerned with avatars of the human body and the way digital interfacing shapes who we are. Like her millennial peers, she is obsessed with her cellphone, and social media as the primary way of engaging communally and archiving physical reality. She is interested in the role of these technologies, and how they relate to the physical handmade art object. She hopes that she can continue to work with her ideas and contribute to the wider world.

EDUCATION

2016-2018  School of Visual Arts, MFA Fine Arts, New York, NY

2010-2014     Tokyo University of the Arts, BFA, Oil Painting, Tokyo, Japan

 

EXHIBITIONS

2018     "Tactics, Works, Terms, Forms, Statement", 371 Broadway, New York, NY

2017     "A & M", Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY

2014     Graduate Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2013     Promote Exhibition, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan

2012     Promote Exhibition, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan

2011     Two Person Exhibition, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan

2010     Toride Art Path 2010 Omae ni misetai, Tokyo University of the Arts Toride Campus, Ibaraki, Japan

AWARDS

2018     School of Visual Arts, Alumni Scholarship Awards, New York, NY

VOLUNTEER

2010   Toride Art Project, Ibaraki, Japan, http://www.toride-ap.gr.jp

 

EMPLOYMENT

2013   Internship, Tokyo Jogakkan Middle School, Tokyo, Japan: Art

 

THE ARTIST LIVES IN TOKYO, JAPAN

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