Karen SHIOZAWA Born in Kanagawa in 1998, Karen SHIOZAWA spent several years of her childhood in the Netherlands and is currently a postgraduate student at Tokyo Zokei University. She was awarded the Best Formative Art Prize at the Asian Creative Art Exhibition 2018 held at The National Art Center, Tokyo. SHIOZAWA is consistently seeking to expand the realm of communication mediated through her work. While projecting her childhood memories and everyday feelings into the two-dimensional works, she is also aiming to represent a world that is perceived through means other than sight by cultivating the ways of expression using sound, light, and three-dimensional forms. 

The boundless galaxy is the major scene in SHIOZAWA’s works. Using Acrylic, oil, alkyd resin on the wood board to build up the exceptional appealing layers of light and shadow in the Milky Way. Grown up in Netherlands, her compositions and lines feature the European elements, such as wooden windmill, classic-style arch and church steeples. To present the visional and realistic scenes, SHIOZAWA scrapes the paint away with different sizes of technical pens. Through her paintings, the audiences could take a glimpse of the imaginary connection of their inner consciousness along the breach of the world.