TOMIE SEO


My work concerns our lives, people in the world. My reward always comes from the moment when people realize or discover something that are too ambiguous or subtle to get during our daily lives by seeing or experiencing my creation. The theme of my work varies; huge subjects such as social matters and small subjects; like individual daily-life experiences. With psychological method as a spice for both of the theme, I try to create a vibrating atmosphere that questions and revises us our already-established-practices and thoughts.

Currently I have been seeking putting the concept of journalism into my work; like a journalist but whose method of telling things to people is not writhing but ART while utilizing its beauty and amusing form. My future works will more shift into this so-called 'journalism-art' format.



Contact: tomieseo@mac.com

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Born in 1984 in Japan and live in Brooklyn, New York

Education:
2008-Present Hunter College -the City University of New York, New York, NY
2006-2007 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2003-2005 Hokkaido College of Art and Design, Sapporo, Japan

Selected Exhibition:
2008
July 1- 18: The Nineteenth Annual Juried Exhibition, Viridian Artist, New York, NY
(images of my work exhibited in an on going CD presentation during the show)
June 2 -September 2: "2- 3- d- 10"(Online Exhibition), Energy Gallery, Toronto, Canada
http://www.energygallery.com/23d10/23d10thmimg/23d10.htm
2004
Hokkaido Society for the Fine Arts 79th spreading, Sapporo, Japan

Group Exhibition:
2006: Fabricating Useless Things Of Nowledge – FUTON, Chicago, IL
2005: Hokkaido College of Art and Design Graduation Exhibition, Sapporo, Japan

Scholarship/Award
CD Curator's Choice, Jury: Elizabeth Sussman, Viridian Artist, 2008
Incentive Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2006 - 2007
Promotion Award, Graduation Exhibition, Hokkaido College of Art and Design, 2005