Currently:

2025 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program
Upcoming:

Group show
In/Between, Ford Foundation Live Gallery in April
Opening: April 3rd
Performance
42 St Bryant Park - 5 Av
on April 23rd Wednesday
9 am - 10 am


b. 1996,  Japan
Email: info@daiasano.com

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ABOUT
Dai Asano (b. 1996, Japan) is an artist. After studying business and working as a salaryman in Tokyo, he left this path and moved to Providence, RI, to pursue Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. During his MFA studies, he developed a practice that blurs the boundary between life and art. Although trained in the photography department, his approach to time moves in the opposite direction—rather than capturing it, he lets it pass. Through his work, he intervenes with daily life in New York to create experiences of the present.

My purpose is to have no purpose in the work.

There is no sense of “You” or “I.”

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EDUCATION
2024     MFA in Photography
             Rhode Island School of Design, RI, USA
2020     B.A. in Business Ethics
             Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

RESIDENCY/Fellowship
2025     NYFA  Immigrant Artist Program
2024     International Summer Program,
            The Watermill Center, NY

GROUP SHOW

2024    
      Wink, Nudge, Microscope Gallery, NY USA
       Embodied Collection, The Dye House, Providence,    RI USA
       Home/World, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI USA
       The Unspeakable State, Red Eye Gallery, Providence, RI USA

2022    
      Im Nebel, Red Eye Gallery, Providence, RI USA
2021    

       Portrait of Japan, Shibuya Bus Stops, Shibuya, Tokyo Japan



AWARD
2022-24    RISD Fellowship
2022-24    RISD Graduate Assistantship
2021        Portrait of Japan, Shortlist, Tokyo, Japan
2021        IMA next STORY, Shortlist, Tokyo, Japan