I realize that I have a Dream. In the Dream, I visit many places, learn and deepen my understanding of the human condition and the state of the world, explore the power of art to aid, inform, inspire, question and heal.

I believe in creating art that energizes, moves, restores, reveals, soothes, and affects change.

I continue to evolve as a human being and as an artist, and I look forward to the new painting that will manifest through my hands tomorrow.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Shuko was raised in Japan, Germany, and the United States and received her BA in Visual Arts from Brown University.

She has also pursued studies at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado; L'Ecole National Supérieure des Beaux Arts and La Sorbonne in Paris, France; Lacoste School of the Arts in southern France; Lorenzo de Medici School of the Arts in Florence, Italy; Keio University in Tokyo, Japan; and the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Shuko has exhibited in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico; Portland, Oregon; Boulder and Denver, Colorado; Providence, Rhode Island; and Princeton, New Jersey. Her work is privately owned in Japan, Mexico, and the United States.

She currently lives in Yonago, Japan, where she teaches English in nearby mountain towns.