SAKI KISHIMOTO

My work is realistic and stark, balancing on the line between representational
and abstract with a limited palette. Image-based paintings, inspired primarily
from mass media sources such as magazines, dominate my work. I recycle and
redefine the image as a self-portrait.
I use image as a reference to my fantasy, nostalgia, desire and fear. I convey
social comment with my work at times.
I am very influenced by German Expressionism, the delicate line and
composition of Japanese traditional art. I explore the possibility of the figurative
painting with a Japanese point of view.

BORN
1977 TOKYO,JAPAN
NOW LIVE AND WORK IN BROOKLYN,NEW YORK

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
2000 Achieved bachelor of horticulture from Chiba University in Japan
2002-2007 National Academy School of Fine Arts

AWARD
2007 Colonel Michel Jacobs Second prize for painting, National Academy
School of Fine Arts
2006 Ralph Fabri Scholarship - National Academy School of Fine Arts, New
York, NY
2006 Nicholas Markatos Scholarship - National Academy School of Fine Arts,
New York, NY
2006 Lucretia Bori Scholarship - National Academy School of Fine Arts, New
York, NY
2005 Mary Hinman Carter Prize - National Academy School of Fine Arts, New
York, NY

SOLO EXHIBITION
2005 "PROJECTED IMAGES", RHONE, New York, NY
2004 COUP DE COEUR, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITION
2007 ART NOW FAIR,MIAMI BEACH
2007 "HOW WOMEN LOOK", SAFE-T-GALLERY, Dumbo,Brooklyn
2007 Tenth annual juried exhibition at National Academy Museum, New York,
NY
2006 "RIDER PROJECT" WWW.ART-ANON.ORG
2005 Eighth annual juried exhibition at National Academy Museum, New York,
NY
2004 Cork gallery Exhibition at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln center, New York, NY
2004 Seventh annual juried exhibition at National Academy Museum, New
York, NY
2003 Cork gallery Exhibition at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln center, New York, NY


Curatorial Experience
2006 Artists File online slide show, ARTISTS SPACE, New York, NY