About The Artist

NORIKO OHASHI was born in a town near Tokyo, Japan, and lives in Tokyo now. She was in a Japanese experimental performing art group when she was young, around the end of 1970's. In those days, she painted pictures, made strange dolls, wrote poems, and occasionally was a performer. Till the middle of 1990's, she had taken part in several contemporary art events in Tokyo. She got a prize at the short film contest in 1991. After her last child was born in 1987, she entered a distance course of university, thinking to broaden her knowledge, and continued studying. She studied art history, philosophy, aesthetics and visual culture, and obtained two bachelor's degree, including Kyoto University of Art and Design. Most of her recent works are originally made by pencils, pastels, acrylics and so on, and are finished up on computer. EXHIBITIONS 2014 "Blooming" at SpaceWomb gallery, New York 2013 Group Show at Recto Verso Gallery, Tokyo 2012 Art Fair in London 2011 “Venti Per Venti” ,Italy 2010 “Tutto Un-Museo Su Una-Parete” ,Italy 2009 “Japanese Spirit” at Opera Gallery, Budapest, Hungary 2008 “Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition” at Opera Gallery, Budapest, Hungary 2007 “Group Exhibition of Japan Illustrator’s Association” Tokyo, Japan “Where Science Meets Art” Pennsylvania, USA 2006 “Flights of Imagination” at the Giger Museum of Switzerland “The 2006 Exhibition Tour” Trentino, Italy/ Burgau, Germany 2005 “Festival of Fantasy and Imagination” London, UK “4th Lessedra World Art Print Annual-mini print” Sofia, Bulgaria “The Inner Eye” Vezzano, Italy/ Rosshaupten, Germany/ Tarifa, Spain 2000 “Terayama World”(participation with artworks of dolls in the past)Tokyo, Japan