Cyoko Tamai (b. 1987, Kochi Prefecture) graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts with a BFA in Music and an MFA in Japanese Painting. Tamai’s work has been featured in over a dozen solo and group exhibitions in Japan. She was the 2014 Japan Society Artist-in-Residence and featured in multiple one-woman shows at Ronin Gallery. She is the recipient of several grants from the Sato International Cultural Foundation and the recipient of the Ataka Award. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of the Muscarelle Museum of Art and the Morikami Museum.
Courtesy Asia Contemporary Art Week

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