- 2022
- 48th Art Festival - Tokyo Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum) Excellence Award
- 2021
- 47th Art Festival - Tokyo Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum) Encouragement Award
- 2018
- Asian Creative Art Exhibition 2018 (National Art Center, Tokyo) Best Artistic Award
- 2017
- Five University Art Exchange Exhibition 2017 (Musashino Art University) Asia Creative Art Exhibition Award - Special Excellence Award
KAREN SHIOZAWA
KAREN SHIOZAWA
Born in Kanagawa, Japan, in 1998, Karen Shiozawa spent part of her childhood in the Netherlands and received her Master of Fine Arts from Tokyo Zokei University. In 2017, she was awarded the Special Excellence Award at the "Five University Art Exchange Exhibition 2017" at the Musashino Art University. In 2018, she was awarded the Best Formative Art Prize at the Asia Creative Art Exhibition held at The National Art Center, Tokyo. In 2020, her work was collected by the Deji Art Museum in China, and in 2022, she received the Award of Excellence at the 48th Art Festival Tokyo-ten Exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. Her works have been exhibited in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, and Greece.
Working primarily through painting, Shiozawa explores how light, memory, and personal experience shape the ways we perceive and experience the world. Her formative years in the Netherlands, surrounded by diffuse light, reflections on water, and expansive horizons, profoundly influenced her sense of distance, memory, and time, and continue to inform the foundations of her practice.
Rather than depicting physical landscapes, Shiozawa seeks to create landscapes transformed through memory. Through contrasts of light and shadow and layered surfaces of color, she attempts to preserve the atmosphere and temporal resonance of lived experience within the painted image.
In recent years, she has expanded these painterly concerns into moving image and spatial compositions.
"The truly real world. It may be a memory of a world that once might have existed, or it may be a vision of a future yet unseen. Those who encounter my works can recognize the countless possible worlds, and, while feeling longing and nostalgia for the dazzling and immeasurable expanse glimpsed through the gaps of those worlds, they can open many doors of imagination. I hope to create works that act as bridges between people's consciousness and perception, while capturing the inner voices that often go unnoticed in the real world."
― Karen Shiozawa
ARTWORKS
ARTICLES
ONLINE EXHIBITIONS
GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
AWARDS
MAJOR EXHIBITIONS, COLLECTIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2025
- Once Upon a Time ‒ Tales of Moon – (Whitestone Gallery Beijing / Beijing)
- 2024
- Thousand Night (Whitestone Ginza New Gallery / Singapore)
Secret Place - Finally Met (Whitestone Ginza New Gallery / Seoul) - 2023
- Gentle Light (Whitestone Ginza New Gallery / Ginza)
Masquerade of Light (Whitestone Gallery Beijing / Beijing) - 2022
- Beyond the sea of melody (Whitestone Ginza Karuizawa Gallery / Karuizawa)
Galaxy Carnival (Whitestone Gallery Taipei / Taipei) - 2020
- Orgel of Light (Whitestone Ginza New Gallery / Ginza)
- 2019
- Leap Second Resident (Gallery Canon / Ginza)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2025
- Mediterranean Blue, (Rarity Gallery/Greece)
Wandering Verse (Whitestone Gallery Taipei/Taipei) - 2024
- The 50th Art Festival - Tokyo Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum / Ueno)
Between Ambiguity and Clarity (Backstageart / Shanghai) Dance to Your Heartbeat (Empathy Gallery / Harajuku) MINI ◯ Exhibition (Sansiao Gallery / Nihonbashi) Transfiguration (GR Gallery / New York) - 2023
- The 49th Art Festival - Tokyo Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum / Ueno)
WE LOVE KOREA (Whitestone Gallery Soul / South Korea)
WE LOVE CHINA (Whitestone Gallery Beijing / China)
WE LOVE SINGAPORE (Whitestone Gallery Singapore) - 2022
- The 48th Art Festival - Tokyo Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum / Ueno)
Contrasting Confluences (Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong H Queen’s / Hong Kong) - 2021
- The 47th Art Festival - Tokyo Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum / Ueno)
- 2020
- San Ninten (Gallery Niiku / Omotesando)
Little Fables (Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong H Queen’s / Hong Kong)
ART POINT selection I (GALLERY ART POINT / Ginza) - 2019
- GALLERY ART POINT Grand Prize Exhibition KIZUNA2019 (GALLERY ART POINT / Ginza)
The Power of Art (Isetan Shinjuku / Shinjuku)
Konjaku Izu Exhibition (GINZA SIX / Ginza) - 2018
- Futari ~Unique multi-talented~ (Double exhibition) (Gallery Niiku / Omotesando)
The 44th Tokyo Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)
Visit (Tokyo Metropolitan Theater)
The Resonant World (Four Artists Exhibition) (Gallery Canon / Ginza)
Things from Another World (Ginza Mitsukoshi)
Miniature Painting Exhibition (Gallery Canon / Ginza)
Tokyo Exhibition Fresh Exhibition (Art Space Ginza One / Ginza)
Asian Creative Art Exhibition (The National Art Center, Tokyo) - 2017
- The 43rd Tokyo Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)
My Thoughts Book Exhibition (Gallery Canon / Ginza)
99 People Exhibition (Gallery Q / Ginza)
Five Art Universities Exchange Exhibition 2017 (Musashino Art University)
Five Art Universities Exchange Exhibition Small Works Exhibition (Ginza Modern Art Gallery / Ginza)
COLLECTIONS
Deji Art Museum (China)
IMAGES
2024, Thousand Nights, Singapore
2024, Thousand Nights, Singapore
2024, Secret Place - Finally met, Seoul
2024, Secret Place - Finally met, Seoul
2023, Gentle Light, Ginza New Gallery
2023, Gentle Light, Ginza New Gallery
2023, Gentle Light, Ginza New Gallery
2023, Gentle Light, Ginza New Gallery
2023, Masquerade of Light, Beijing
2023, Masquerade of Light, Beijing
2023, Masquerade of Light, Beijing
2023, Masquerade of Light, Beijing
2022, Contrasting Confluences, Hong Kong
2022, Beyond the sea of melody, Karuizawa
2022, Beyond the sea of melody, Karuizawa