Midori Suzuki (artist)

After ten days, she saw a news report on the Internet and saw a woman knocking on the doors of the houses of her family’s neighborhood.

She circulated two large poster boards with images of traditional Japanese and Mexican dolls for people to write messages of support.

[1][4] When Suzuki could finally travel to Japan, she brought the poster boards with her to show at schools, community meetings and other places in the affected areas.

[4] In Mexico, she first worked by giving individual art classes and began to paint watercolors which show Mexican pre Hispanic influence.

These shows were held in venues such as the Muromachi Gallery, the Kesennuma Cultural Center and the Hamada Annex in Japan as well as the Centro Artístico in Granada twice.

From that time to the present, she has had individual exhibitions at the Instituto Michoacano de Cultura in Morelia, the Kahohu-Kesennuma Exhibition Hall, the Casa de Cultura in Tlalpan, the municipal palace of Naucalpan, the Centro Asturiano and the San Juan Bautista Museum in Japan.

In 2012, she exhibited 24 works as “El silencio de movimiento at UNAM’s Centro Cultural Acatlán.

[1][7] This is Mexican-Japanese artist group which also includes along Shino Watabe, Shoko Sumi and Beatriz Lazo.

She says colors used in Mexican rugs caught her attention and she used to paint in red, yellow and blue but changed to green and purple as they are more soothing.

[8] Suzuki states that when she arrived to Mexico, she was impressed by its pre Hispanic culture, especially its ceramics and featherwork.

[1] The lines she creates often represent the link between life and death as well as water, wind and the movement of figures such as women and horses.