CREATIVE SPACE HAYASHI
TOMO MORI
PROFILE
毛利友（1972-present）
大阪府四條畷市生まれ。東京都立芸術高校を卒業後、アトランタ美術大学に入学。同校卒業後、CNNに入社、以後グラフィックデザイナーとしてのキャリアを積んでいくが2011.年にニューヨークで再度アートの道を目指す。
11年間、報道の内側から見てきた不平等な世界、この時代のマイノリティ女性として受けてきた差別や暴力など、作品は暗い感情からから始まるが完成作は明るい。制作のプロセスを通して治癒力、人や自然界との繋がりを考え、過去や歴史が交差する中、祈りのように希望を探究する。世界中から集められた布のコラージュと縄のインスタレーションは光のない所に光を寒いスペースに温かさをもたらす。
Tomo Mori was born in Shijonawate, Osaka. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan High School for Music and Art, she pursued studying art at the Atlanta College of Art in the United States. After college graduation, she started to work for CNN and built her career as a graphic designer, but she returned to pursue art again in 2011.
Tomo’s work starts with dark emotions by observing the world’s inequality from the newsroom and the discrimination and violence she experienced as a minority woman of this generation. However, the completed works are uplifting. In her process, she goes through healing, connecting, then intersecting with the past to find hope. Both collage and rope installation, composed of fabrics from all over the world, gives a sense of light and warmth.
CV
1972 大阪府四條畷市に次女として誕生
1988 東京都立芸術高校進学
1989 カリフォルニア州カーマンハイスクールに１年間YFUの奨学生として留学
1991 アトランタ美術大学入学
1995 Cable News Network (CNN)入社
2011 アーティストとしての活動を再開
Public Art/Commercial Commission
2021 Splash, 20’x 4’ painting commissioned by Tishman for Swan Reserve Hotel
2018 The Wheels of the Bus, MTA Art & Design, Manhattanville Bus Depot
2017 Concerto Encircling, Miller Theatre at Columbia University. A site-specific
installation/mural commission. A part of Uptown Triennial 2017
Art Fair
2020 CADAF Online, curated by Roberta Finberg/99 Prints
2017 CT Contemporary Art Fair, Bedford Square, Westport, CT
2015 FLUX ART FAIR, New York, NY
2014 SCOPE Miami Beach, Rush Arts Gallery
Solo/2 Artist Exhibitions
2020 I See You. With Tafa, Chashama, Immigrant Artist Series. New York, NY
2019 ROPE, curated by Ramona Candy. St. Joseph College, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Search for Warmth, Judy Ferrara Gallery, Three Oaks, MI
2017 Search for Warmth, Porter Advisory, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2023 Gathering, Asianish curated by Sophia Ma and Cecile Chong, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY
2022 100 YEARS OF HARLEM curated by Omo Misha, Christie's x CCNY
2020 Art of Healing, Art on the Ave, curated by Lisa DuBois. New York, NY
2017 Intertwined, chashama 470 Vanderbilt, Brooklyn NY
2017 We are stronger together, Barnes Foundation/Rush Art Philly, Philadelphia, PA
2015 Molting, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
2014 Kirschblüte. Museum BL, Liestal, Switzerland
2014 HOME by No Longer Empty, Sugar Hill Museum, New York
2013 Brimming on the Edge with NYCxDESIGN, Andrew Freedman Home, Bronx,NY
Residency
2023 Winter Workspace Residency, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY.
2022 EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio/IFPDA, New York, NY
2020 This Life Given, West Harlem Art Funds at Governors Island, NY
2015 Chashama 461 studio/workspace program, New York, NY
