Born in Shiga Prefecture in 1985. Based on printmaking, she creates three-dimensional and installation works that draw inspiration from the history, beliefs, and stories intertwined with the land, creating spaces where people and land, past and present, and the ordinary and the extraordinary intersect. This time, the artist presents the sculpture Dragon God, inspired by the sacred tree and the dragon god of Chikubushima Island in Lake Biwa.
Midori Ozaki
Midori Ozaki
Japan
⬤ Works in 2026
Dragon God (3D/H360×W55×D55cm/2026)
⬤ Message
Since ancient times, Chikubushima, an island in Lake Biwa, has been home to nature worship such as faith in the dragon god, nurturing a wealth of myths.
This work focuses on the sacred tree of Chikubushima, from which a dragon is still said to rise out of the lake. The "raging dragon god" depicted in the myths was the very image of overwhelming nature that humans cannot resist. I welcome this dragon god, long feared and revered, into the work as a symbol that restores stagnant flows and reawakens broken cycles.
The sacred tree and the dragon god that emerge here quietly shake the boundaries between self and other, between humans and nature, freeing us, who live within orderly systems, from the frames of everyday life. Carving the unseen spiritual as a "certainty of existence," the work creates a place that meets the viewer's inner memories and senses.
⬤ Biography
1985 Born in Shiga, Japan
2006-14 Member of the Takarazuka Revue
2021 M.F.A. in Printmaking, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts
2018 The 17th Minamishimabara Seminario Contemporary Print Exhibition (Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum and others / Nagasaki) –2019
2018 The 7th Kanae Yamamoto Print Grand Prize Exhibition (Ueda City Museum of Art / Nagano)
2023 Group exhibition: Fishermen and Artists – Spinning Waves, Weaving Livelihoods – (Shiga Museum of Art / Shiga)
2024 Group exhibition: Capture the Memory (Seian University of Art and Design / Shiga)
2024 Solo exhibition: Listening to the Voice of the Abyss (galleryMain / Kyoto)
2025 Kyoto-jin × Next Generation Artists 2025 (Kyoto Prefectural Center for Arts and Culture / Kyoto)
2025 Two-person exhibition: Waving Slash / (GALLERY GARAGE / Kyoto)
2025 Jogonin International Art Festival 2025 (Jogonin Temple / Shiga)
2026 Nagahama International Art Festival 2026 (Tsuchida Kanamono-ten / Shiga)