Hanae Moreno Niimi

^{Hanae Moreno-Niimi}

I paint to understand what it means to occupy a body in space. My work is autobiographical. I look at my family, my ancestors and my community to understand what we have become and how we have gotten here. Although I paint people, my work is not only of individuals. I look at the weight of a sitter’s presence in intimate discourse with his or her setting or environment, and seek to capture the experience of the self as viewed and interpreted, and the self as viewer and observer.

Born in Nagoya
Based in Geneva
Painting in Lisbon and Berlin

^{Group Exhibitions

2024 Transart Finals, Liverpool John Moore University, Liverpool, UK

2023 Heirloom, Cabin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2022 Emotional Intelligence, Polina Berlin Gallery, NY, New York, USA

2017 Take Care, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, USA

2013 Galerie Athénée 4, Geneva, Switzerland}

^{Press

2022 Polina Berlin Gallery}^{2022 VooStore}

^{Education

2024 MFA, TransArt Institute for Creative Research, Liverpool, UK

2020 Graduate Certificate, Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

2017 BA, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, USA}