Photo: Florian Formanek
Erica Kaminishi (1979) is a Japanese-Brazilian artist who lives and works between Brazil and France.
She holds a fine arts degree from the Faculty of Arts of Parana, Brazil, and a Master of Visual Arts from Nihon University in Japan, where she lived for almost 10 years. Her work is mainly based on the poetic nature of the written word, both as an element of visual composition and as a contextual idea relating to issues of identity. Her poetic compositions explore the essence of Japanese traditional culture in a range of mixed-media techniques, including paper, canvas, sculpture, and installation.
Individual exhibitions include National Foundation of Arts (Sao Paulo, Brazil), and Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, both 2011. Group exhibitions include Aichi Triennale (Nagoya, Japan), 2010; Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale (Japan), 2012; Oscar Niemeyer Museum (Curitiba, Brazil), 2016; and the Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, US), 2017.