Group Exhibition Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From
Gallerie delle Prigioni - Fondazione Benetton Imago Mundi -Treviso Italy

From 6th Decembre 2019

The Aga Khan Museum and the Fondazione Imago Mundi announce the launch of a new partnership, dedicated to fostering dialogue and understanding between cultures and international communities. The partnership begins with a jointly-created exhibition, Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From, which channels the experiences of artists who are first, second, and third-generation immigrants – a growing body of people raised in a culture other than their parents’ – in a series of diverse works exploring cross-cultural artistic realities. Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From features new works by 15 artists, representing 25 different countries, and will open at Imago Mundi’s Gallerie delle Prigioni in Treviso, Italy, on 6th Decembre 2019, before travelling to the Aga Khan Museum in Canada

Check out my Interview for the Italian National TV Rai5 Culture !!!

Exhibition Archipels, Géographies D'Extraordinaires
Opening 7th of November at 18h30 until 30th of November 2019
2, place Denfert-Rochereau
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt FRANCE

La galerie Exit art contemporain a le plaisir de présenter pour la première fois à la galerie, les travaux d’Erica Kaminishi et de Josée Le Roux. Archipels, Géographies d’Extraordinaires nous propose leur perception du monde. ‘Représentation conventionnelle, généralement plane, de phénomènes concrets ou même abstraits, mais toujours localisables dans l’espace.’ Voilà la définition de ‘carte géographique’ que le Larousse nous donne. Les cartes peuvent, certes, être de simples outils de repérage, pratiques dans leur forme ordinaire. Mais les cartes peuvent aussi nous mener vers des destinations nouvelles : des lieux renversés ou retournés, des royaumes reliés à l'esprit intérieur plus qu’au monde extérieur. Ce sont les territoires des cartes d’artistes, mélange d’informations et d’illusions

Exhibition Cromáticas Consonantes (Consonant Chromatics)
Erica Kaminishi and Tatiana Stropp
From 3rd of October until 23th of November 2019
Address: Alberto Bela Rosa, 70 - Pontal de Camburi, Vitória - ES, 29062-110, Brazil

“Two pictorial notes, revealing plastic sounds with different color rhythms and techniques that harmonize in a chord between gestural spontaneity and the organicity of movements. (...) In this exhibition, Erica Kaminishi presents the Chromo-Clouds series, unfolding of works developed over the last years, which point to the recomposition of elements based on the Japanese traditional symbology, which allude to the fluidity of rivers, seas and clouds. Chromo-Clouds are like the poet's dreams, which in the flow of his poems float in the uncertainties of existence. They are mists of dense words that sparkle according to the movement of the eye and intersect the numerous topographic layers that have always marked Erica's creative process. As a form of utterance between the past - her origins - and her real experiences between different homes and cultures. "

Contemporary Art Museum of Sorocaba and Toyota Brasil

E²lpis'tios is a project elaborated based on the relation of my work with the Japanese Traditional Art, that I have been developing throughout my career as visual artist. Etios was envisioned as a poetic box: a box of hopes (Elpis in Greek means the hope that Pandora manages to preserve with herself), a traditional Japanese calligraphic box - suzuribako -, a playful box with words that tickle the tongue, and a secret box made of memories in which I transcribe a poem of Fernando Pessoa: Fortunate Islands

Video about my process of creation for the project LOOP,  selected for Novas Efervescências 2018-2019 (New Effervescence 2018-2019) of
Porto Seguro Cultural Space

The project LOOP was selected for Novas Efervescências 2018-2019 (New Effervescence 2018-2019) of
Porto Seguro Cultural Space

From 05/11 to 07/21
Alameda Barão de Piracicaba, 610
Campos Elíseos
01216-012São Paulo - SP, Brazil

LOOP
"In this visual installation, the public is invited to intervene by touching and rotating the cylinders coated with white Canson paper. The work plays with the double meaning of the English term “loop”: a shape, order or path of movement that is circular or twisted in itself, and the basic pattern of human fingerprint. The set of cylinders allude to the traditional Buddhist prayer wheels and while addressing the untouchable and the sacred, discusses the culture of touch. As they are touched, the three-dimensional pieces gradually change color and absorb the traces left by the spectators. In the conception of the artist, for whom the public often see only the superficial layer of beauty, this is a more direct and extreme artwork, discussing issues such as alterity and strangeness, as well as the association of white to beauty and purity." Curatorial text.

Following the series of articles about the Transpacific Borderlands exhibition displayed at the Japanese American Museum in LA, USA, Discover Nikkei published this week a long interview about my work and my artistic journey over the last 20 years between Brasil, Japan and France. Perhaps, it could even be a journey of more than 100 years if I add the paths traveled by my family and the artistic and cultural heritage that I have within me...
http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2018/2/19/erica-kaminishi-1/

Great article written by the curator Michiko Okano!  She captured very well the essence of my works shown at the Japanese American National Museum in LA. 

Group exhibition: Scapeland: Território de Trânsito Livre
From 26/01 until 28/02/2018
São Paulo Brazil

Solo Exhibition Entre(meios

From November 2017 until 15th February 2018
Rua Cardoso de Almeida, 1285
05013-001 
São Paulo - SP - Brazil