Asuka Kazama was born and grew up  in Tokyo, now she lives in Paris. She is multifaceted artist. 

 After Tokyo Metropolitan Toyama High School, she graduated from Kyoritsu Women's University in Tokyo ( section French Language and Literature in the Faculty of Art and Letters in 2003). After a period of work in Tokyo, she moved to Strasbourg to study : She graduated in Design of Applied Art at the University of Strasbourg in 2007, diploma of Art, at l' Ecole supérieure des Arts décoratifs de Strasbourg in 2010 and Master of Visual Arts, University of Strasbourg in 2014.

 

She talked about her work : ""  I worked a lot of rain work in Strasbourg. I could draw outside with safe and the rain was perfect, a little rain and short time. But since I came to Paris, there are a lot of pollution, not so clean on the road, and a few space to work. The environment has changed. I tried to draw with rain, but because of the global warming, the rain became to violent and so strong that I can't have a good effect with rain for my work and so dangerous for the health. My old rain work are so precious because we can't have good rain any more....Maybe I can do when I have chance to have good  rain and to be in a good garden. 

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  Now you can discover my matured work. In fact, I draw my cry of my heart since my childhood I am only child so I was often alone, these things were coming out, Paris made me free, the line of my work is free with Japanse calligraphy experience (the periode when I was 7years-15years. Her calligraphy was exibitionned in Tokyo Metropolitan Gouvernment in 1998, and the Naritasan for several times ) ""

 

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She wants to express creative scenes in everyday life. She also works imaginary characters with a sense of humor like Miro. Her work is like a dream or cloud ; something that we can recognise, but ephemeral. It exists but it does not exist. She is interested in transformation. 

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 Her technique is various. Watercoulour, paper, oil, acrylic, gouache, ink, photo, collage etc...

 

 She receives orders for portraits or landscapes, or graphic order... You can contact her by email in Japanese, French, English. If you require more information you can send her any questions for your requests.

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Her fist solo exhibition was the residence Arcanoti Visconti of CROUS Strasbourg, and Galerie Quedar in 2010.  She had solo exhibition in the Maison de l'Alsace in Paris en 2011, and some works were shown in Galerie Mannsfeld in Colmar for several years, and three times at Office de Tourisme de strasbourg.

She took part in the exhibition of "Papier, s'il vous plaît'' of the Galerie Bertrand Gillig, Strasbourg, and Galerie de la paix in Selestat 2011. 

 

She received the Price Théophile Schuler of la Société des Amis des Arts et des Musées de Strasbourg at the Foire Européenne d’Art Contemporain St-art à Strasbourg in 2012,

 

She took part int the stand of the Culturel franco-allemand de Art Karslruhe in 2014. Some works of drawing Cathedral of Strasbourg to celebrate his 1000years was shown in Galerie L'Estampe in Strasbourg,

 

Café littéraire Deux Magots in Paris en 2017. She was invited to have collectif exibition about COVID19 at Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, 10 rue des Beaux-Arts Paris 75006 2020.

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She is honoured to take part in Art Book Project by Edition Les lieux dits. Philippe Bouret, French writer whom the editor chose, had writen his poetry suitable to her watercolour in this book. This book is shown in Marché de la Poésie in Saint-Suplice, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, au stand 226, 20-24 October 2021.  Her works of the rain are shown in the galerie Coin des Arts, 53 rue du Turennes 75003   since january 2022 and a few work of the snow at the Galerie Baxter, 15 rue du Dragon 75006 Paris since 2017. 

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Her current exhibition is at Audi Voiture Atlantis , 76 rue de Longchamp 75116 in Paris until 31 May 2023.

In Novermber 2023 she will take part in St-Art in Strasbourg with SAAMS

Michael Lindsay-Hogg  encourages art of Asuka.

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Thank you for your reading. 

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