Artist

NORIMATSU Karin

Medicinal Herbs of Miaknva, 2025, installation view

Flora of Miaknva, installation view

Medicinal Herbs of Miaknva, 2025, installation view

Photo by Shirai Akane

NORIMATSU Karin

Born in 1998 in Nagasaki, live in Hyogo, Japan
Ph.D. in Art, Kyoto University of the Arts (2026)

My theme is “The Relationship between Plants and People.”
I view plants, which are being transformed by scientific technology such as genome editing, as new entities that evolve with the help of humans, and depicts them in the form of natural history paintings that contribute to scientific research through the creation of machine plants.
I hope that my legacy (mechanical plants) will be discovered by someone in the near future, just as new species have been discovered, classified, and studied on actual new continents.

Selected Exhibition

2025 Solo Exhibition "WHAT IS LIFE?" ARTIST FAIR KYOTO 2025 Satellite Event (Artist-in-Residence Kamo-Nasu, Kyoto)

2024 "KYOTO ART FOR TOMORROW 2025 - Kyoto Selected Emerging Artists Exhibition" The Museum of Kyoto, 5th Floor Exhibition Hall (Kyoto)

2024 "HANKYU ART FAIR 2024" Group Exhibition, Hankyu Umeda Main Store (Osaka)

Selected Award

2021 " Kyoto University of the Arts DEGREE SHOW"《Future Plants》Encouragement Award

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