Keika Okamoto
Bio: Keika Okamoto is a Japanese artist based in New York. Through her diverse practice encompassing installation, sculpture, painting and video, she creates animistic and dreamlike imagery drawing on the relationship between humans and the natural world in contemporary life. She explores the scale of time and conjures poetic scenery from micro to macro of everyday life to cosmic perspectives, and sways to and fro between inner and outer worlds to seek how to amplify a sublime feeling and an ephemeral moment in daily life that we may connect to the feeling of eternity. As she grew up during the lost decades in Japan, she has been particularly interested in the role of spirituality in contemporary life. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts and is currently pursuing an MFA in Visual Arts at Columbia University.
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: I am interested in the idea of nature. I feel it always acts as a mirror reflecting us like a kaleidoscope, and vice versa. In my works, I explore the scale of time and create an ephemeral moment that we may connect to the feeling of eternity with visual languages.
L to R: See you in a dream (Dimensions variable, Futon cover, wool, wood, chair, wires, stainless steel rods, clips, paper clay, 2022); One Night (57" x 44", Oil on canvas, 2022)
First Year Exhibition
Untitled (HD video with sound, glass Dimensions variable, 10 min, 2021)
