Maari Sugawara is an interdisciplinary artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Tokyo, and Shenzhen. She completed her Master’s of Fine Arts as a Dean’s scholarship student at the Interdisciplinary Master's in Art, Media, and Design (IAMD) at OCAD University in 2021, after receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 2017 from Waseda University. She engages with the intersection of Japanese Studies, Speculative Fiction, Decolonial Studies, Gender Studies, and Digital Media. Growing up as a racialized, queer woman with Autism Spectrum Disorder in England from the age of ten, issues of gender, racialized, and marginalized identity have been central to her research. In her digital photography, videography, and digital medium-based art projects, she illustrates how the categories of Japanese and human are categorically interpellated and performatively constituted through discourse, and encourages a departure from traditional categories of difference. Still an emerging artist, her works have been showcased in several publications and exhibitions.
活動
Media Art, Movie, Sound, Fine Art, Research
Awards
言語
日本語
