Himeka Murai
Himeka Murai (b.1996, Tokyo, Japan) is a self-taught visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY.
Murai was awarded the "Young Artist Fellowship" from ChaNorth International Writers & Artists-in- Residence Program in 2024, and was selected for the NYFA "Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Visual and Multidisciplinary Arts” in 2023. She has exhibited at Studio 9D (New York, NY) , New York Live Arts (New York, NY), Shibuya HIKARIE (Tokyo, Japan), Muracekai (Tokyo, Japan), and at various venues in Brooklyn, NY. Murai earned an AAS in Communication Design from the Fashion Institute of Technology (2021) and a BLA in Art History and Cultural Heritage (2019) from the International Christian University in Tokyo.
She creates installations, sculptures, and sculptural paintings using found objects, everyday materials and natural ink she makes herself- transforming the surface into intricate textures. Her work, influenced by her hometown Tokyo and current home New York, where nature intertwines with urbanity, reflects a deep compassion for the overlooked or 'ugly' aspects of life. She explores non-traditional beauty in organic forms, as well as the ambiguity of her own memories and the past embedded within the textures of objects.
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