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Satomi shirai biography

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          Satomi Shirai: Finding Beauty in Dislocation

          Artist/photographer Satomi Shirai has found a successful creative path by exploring the feeling of being lost.

          Laundry (2007). Satomi Shirai.

          Satomi Shirai, born Description: Satomi Shirai discusses her work in "Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter." Recorded at NPG.

        1. Satomi Shirai, born Description: Satomi Shirai discusses her work in "Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter." Recorded at NPG.
        2. Photographer Satomi Shirai channels her experiences as a Japanese immigrant in the United States in her controlled studies of dislocation and cultural.
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        4. She received her BFA in Chinese painting from the Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts in and came to the United States in After completing the MFA.
        5. Satomi Shirai is a photographer and artist based in Tokyo and Chiba.

          6. Digital Chromogenic print. Collection of the artist. © Satomi Shirai

          Featured in the Smithsonian exhibition, Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter, which recently was on display at the Japanese American National Museum, Shirai’s photography explores the feelings of disorientation when moving from one location to the next.

          Born in Tokyo and a graduate of its Musashino Art University, Shirai worked as a freelance photographer until moving to New York in 2004, eventually earning a Master of Fine Arts degree from City University of New York’s Hunter College in 2010.

          “My work investigates what constitutes the concept of ‘home,’ as an immigrant who chose to live in New York,” Shirai explains, noting that being a newcomer to a country mak