SEO Natsumi

Born in 1988 in Tokyo, where she lives and works. Seo completed the graduate program in painting at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. She travels to various places, producing paintings and writing texts exploring the idea of “what cannot be spoken.” After volunteering in coastal Tohoku following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, she formed an art unit with Komori Haruka and was based in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, for three years, beginning in 2012. In 2015, she co-founded the general incorporated association NOOK with collaborators working in the Tohoku region, with the aim of creating records while engaging with the land. Seo now runs Studio04 in Koto-ku, Tokyo, and is also involved in Karoku Recycle, a project that researches records of past disasters, documents ongoing disasters, and incorporates these materials into artworks.