Kayoko Omori

Originally from Tokyo, Japan, Kayoko Omori currently lives at Casa Milagro in Santa Fe, NM and has been in New Mexico for 22 years. She started doing art at children’s museums with her own kids when they were growing up and continued to play with art as a preschool teacher. She sees herself as coming out as an artist now since before Kayoko’s art was made for or with others and now she feels able to fully focus on her own art making. She is self-taught and approaches art in a thoughtful and curious manner. She is always engaging in new mediums and processes, even if they challenge her. She says of her own art:

"I live between hopelessness & faith in grace. What I am is fragility and bottomless strength. I pick up a pen or a brush with familiar sense of fear & threat, trusting with each stroke I get to have fun too, and love what might emerge…

And with each piece of art I am building some kind of bridge; a bridge between extremes – good or bad, beautiful or ugly – a reality wholly my own."