Chizuco Sophia Yw - purified

Chizuco Sophia Yw

Chizuco Sophia Yw is an award-winning visual artist based in Brooklyn New York. Sophia began her career in Japan as a representative artist. In 2000 she moved to New York to study abstract paintings. Sophia developed her “Consciousness-only” work theory which is based on the purity and energy of life since 2003. In her drawings and paintings, Sophia creates imaginary worlds from memory and experience using a variety of media, including glass pen and brush, charcoal, colored pencil, oil, watercolor and acrylic on paper or canvas. In 2009 she found folding books in Beijing, China during artist residency. She created small world following her theory in books. Since 2010 she focused on “Meaning of Life” and started “Purified project”. She creates sculpture using objects nobody use anymore and salt water. In Shinto, indigenous spirituality of Japan, salt has the power to purify the impurities considered as death. Sophia is the recipient of both the grand prize from ArtNetwork and the Director’s Recognition Award from Period Gallery. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at Lincoln Center (New York), Silvermine Guild Arts Center (Connecticut), Bertoni Gallery (New York), Period Gallery (Nebraska), The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (Japan) and Shoko-ji temple (Japan). Sophia’s works are also in the permanent collection of the Shoko-ji temple and Osaka Medical Center as well as in many private collections.