Born and Raised in Japan

Lives and Works in Brooklyn, New York

COMMISSIONS & PUBLIC ART (SELECTED)

2025

Between Tides, public sculpture commission by Public Art Fund, New York, NY

2024

Menagerie, public sculpture commissioned by the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield CT

See the Forest for the Sea, commissioned by Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY

2022

Ashes to Ashes, Al Held Foundation, Boiceville, NY, commissioned by River Valley Arts Collective

2021

Tackle Box, commissioned by Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN

Shrine (Hell Gate Keepers), commissioned by Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY (Currently presented at LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY

2019

A Kind of Pain, commissioned by The Shed, New York, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

A Kind of Pain, Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY

2022

Streaming Surface, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY

2021

American Recordings, The Kitchen, New York, NY

2018

La Bohème, Tops Gallery, Memphis, TN

2018

Untitled (Diorama), commissioned by +/- Project, SOHO20, Brooklyn, NY

2017

You Never Know What Idea You Might Have, Recess, New York, NY

2016

All Depends On The Source Of Light, Undercurrent, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2026

Remembering the Memphis College of Art, group exhibition, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN

2024

Artists & Recipes, curated by Abby Lloyd, Marvin Gardens, Ridgewood, NY

2023

Melvins: Never Say You Are Sorry, curated by Bob Nickas, Public Access, NY

Benefit exhibition, International Studios & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn, NY

2022

Field Day, curated by Emily Noelle Lambert and Maureen Cavanaugh, Peterborough, NH

Benefit exhibition, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY

2021

Sanctuary, Socrates Annual, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY

Shopping at Argo, collaboration with Aki Onda, The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR

The Holder, The Story, curated by Bella Anastasio, The Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY

Virtually Perfect, curated by Kevin Wu, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2020

The Earth is Blue Like an Orange, International Studios & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn, NY

2019

Open Call, The Shed, New York, New York

 Mezzanine, Pfizer Building Ground Floor Gallery, curated by Min Sun Jeon and Jennifer Ho, Brooklyn, NY

2017     

Monument, The Gowanus E-Waste Warehouse / The Lower East Side Ecology Center, organized by Penelope Umbrico, Brooklyn, NY

2014

Infinitude, in collaboration with Virginia Overton, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angels, California

2013

Virginia Overton at Kunsthalla Bern (Storyteller, a collaborative work with Overton was shown as a part of her solo exhibition)

Street Trash, organized by Motoko Fukuyama, Aaron Suggs, and Virginia Overton, Memphis, TN

2012

Creature from the Blue Lagoon, curated by Bob Nickas, Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY

Bred and Fed, curated by Mary Grace Wright, BS Gallery, Iowa City, IA

Guns ‘N Fucking Roses, curated by Jan Van Woensel, Monty ABN, Antwerp, Belgi

Street Trash, Greenpoint, organized by James Campbell, Sadie Laska, and Virginia Overton, Brooklyn, NY

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS (SELECTED)

2024

NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in interdisciplinary category

Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant

2023

Finalist for Work Space Residency at Baxter St at the Camera Club, New York, NY

Nomination for Adobe Creative Residency at Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), New York, NY

2022

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

Studio Honoree, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn, NY

2021

Nomination for Anonymous Was A Woman Award

Nomination for The Keith Haring Foundation Fellowship in Art and Activism at Bard College

Socrates Sculpture Park Artist Fellowship, Queens, NY

Franconia Sculpture Park Fellowship, Shafer, Minnesota

Finalist for Jerome Foundation Artist Fellowship (awarded)

2020

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant

Finalist for NYFA’s NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre 

2019

Finalist for Jerome Foundation Artist Fellowship

White Columns Artist Registry, White Columns, New York, New York

2017

Session Artist at Recess, New York, NY

2015

Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, New York, NY

RESIDENCIES (SELECTED)

2024

Artist in Residency, Stoneleaf Retreat, Kingston, NY

2023

The Philip Guston and Musa McKim Residency at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY

Art in Residency, Art OMI, Ghent, New York

2022

Artist in Residency at Stoneleaf Retreat, Kingston, New York in collaboration with River Valley Arts Collective

2021

Artist in Residency at International Studios & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn, NY

Artist in Residency at The Kitchen, Queenslab, Ridgewood, Queens, NY

2019

The Milton and Sally Michel Avery Residency at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY

2017

Artist in Residency at MacDowell, Peterborough, NH

ART FAIRS 

2025

Art Fair Tokyo, presentation at the special project booth Tales of New York, Tokyo, Japan

2024

Upstate Art Weekend, Stoneleaf Retreat, Kingston, NY

NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance), outdoor sculpture presentation via The Sphinx, Boston & NYC

PERFORMANCES (SELECTED) 

2021

LEVEL PLAYING FIELD for American Recordings, Act I: American Harvest, QueensLab/ The Kitchen, New York, NY

American Recordings, Act II: American Frequency, in collaboration with Yo! Vinyl Richie, QueensLab/ The Kitchen, NY

2019        

Bells, live performance with Aki Onda and Lucie Vítková, Roulette, Brooklyn, New York

2017

Tabletop Music, performance with Annea Lockwood, Aki Onda, and Akio Suzuki commissioned by Blank Forms, performed at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY

2015

Milky Way, in collaboration with Silver Process, curated by Chuck Bettis, performed at The Stone, New York, NY

SCREENINGS  & FILM FESTIVALS (SELECTED)

2023

American Recordings, Act II: American Frequency, in collaboration with Yo! Vinyl Richie, Blank_Lab, Innovation Hub, Kent State University, Kent, OH

A Kind of Pain, Kent State University, Kent, OH

2021

American Recordings, Act I: American Harvest, Act II: American Frequency, online screening, The Kitchen, New York, NY

2017

Daisy Chain, organized by David Matorin, JOAN, Los Angeles, California

2016

Travelogues The Geology of Thought, organized by Connor Owens, Light House Studio, Charlottesville, VA

Travelogues The Geology of Thought, organized by Connor Owens, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY  

2014

Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival, Yubari, Japan

Bare Bones International Film & Music Festival, Muskogee, OK

Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY

Japan Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany

2013

Premiere of PAN, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY

CINEMATOGRAPHY EXPERIENCE (SELECTED) 

2023    

New film commission by Stanford University for Jean Shin’s Sea Change, Stanford, CA

2022     

Filming and editing of Greetings and Theses by Lorraine O’Grady, presented at

-Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

-Loophole of Retreat: Venice, United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

-Museum of Modern Art as part of Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces 

Filming and editing of In Search of Paik by Aki Onda for National Gallery Singapore

Filming of Beau Bree Rhee: Shadow of the Sea, performance commissioned by the Kitchen

2020

Filming and editing of Stack Until It Falls Down by Aki Onda for Portland Institute for Contemporary Art

2016 

Filming and editing of Dennis Oppenheim: Terrestrial Studio for Storm King Art Center

LECTURE, TALKS, TEACHING

2024

Visiting Artis, Fall 2024 Semester, School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, NY

Public talk with Jean Shin, Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY

All Fishermen are Liars, public talk with Tommy Doyen, Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY

2023

Seeing The Forest, Seeing The Tree, Visiting Artist Lecture, Kent State University, Kent, OH

ATOA (Artists Talk On Art), panel discussion on Grace Roselli’s Pandora’s BoxX Project for American Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C.

2022

Celebrate the Studio, honoree speech for International Studio and Curatorial Program benefit at James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY

Visiting Artist, Carnegie Mellon University MFA program, Pittsburg, PA

Panel discussion, here before: monuments, memory and place with Nathaniel Ruleaux, Inkpa Mani, Karin 

Campbell, “Alternate Currents” series, Amplify Arts, Omaha, NE

2021

Visiting Artist, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey

Visiting Artist, Liberty High School Academy for Newcomers, New York, NY

Visiting Artists, Dinner & Discussion lecture series at Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN

Mentorship for Five Emerging Artists in Residency, Franconia Sculpture Shafer, MN

2020

Virtual Open Studios, International Studio and Curatorial Program), Brooklyn, NY

2019

Public talk on Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates, The Shed, New York, NY

Panel discussion Asian Women Artists in the Context of the Social and Institutional, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Visiting Artist, Columbia University, MFA program, New York, NY

2015

Visiting Artist, NYU, BFA program, New York, NY

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

2024

10 Essential Land Art Pilgrimages to Make Across the United States This Summer, Cultured Magazine 

Moko Fukuyama Creates Microcosms From a Tickle Box, written by Jess Wilcox, Boston Art Review

Artist Spotlight: Moko Fukuyama, written by Allie Kickhofer, NeueHouse Journal

Upstate Art Weekends Offers Year’s Worth of Art in Four Days, written by Will Heinrich, The New York Times

2022

Upstate of Mind: the Evolving concept of art in New York’s Hudson Valley, written by Sophie Landres, Art Basel Stories   

Artists Find Sanctuary at Socrates Sculpture Park, Hyperallergic

2020       

Artists & Recipes, organized by Abby Lloyd, featured in Creative Time COVID-19 Responses

2018

The Shed’s Open Call, Artnet News & Hyperallergic

2018       

La Bohème, Review, Art Papers

2017       

Tabletop Music at Pioneer Works, Review, Brooklyn Rail

Monument at Guwanus E-Waste Warehouse, Review, Hyperallergic

You Never Know What Idea You Might Have at Recess. Review, Downtown Express

2015       

20 Emerging Female Artists to Keep on Your Radar, ArtNet News

EDUCATION 

2004

BFA, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN

2003

AICAD: New York Studio Program, New York, NY

2002

School of The Museum of The Fine Art, Boston, MA