Nishiko

Nishiko is a mixed media artist. She studied photography at Tokyo Zokei University, and fine arts at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. As an artist she has been archiving her own experiences of encountering negative events or mundane norms, or events that are slightly diverged from normality. Through contemplation and investigation, she tries to show intriguing features of specific subjects by putting emphasis on the opposite of how they are normally seen or treated. These are attempts to excavate values of mundane life in ethical and aesthetical manners. The medium varies depending on the subject, from the tangible (object, installation, publication) to the intangible (action, sound, website). She was a longlist nominee for the 2017 Prix de Rome. Nishiko lives and works in the Netherlands.