Hanae Ishara Moreno-Niimi
hanaemoreno@protonmail.com
@hanaemorenoniimi
+41764940190
What does it mean to occupy a body in space? I look at people to understand who we are, how we got here, and consider where we are going. Although I paint people, my work is not about individuals. I look at the weight of a sitter’s presence in discourse with his or her setting, and essay to capture the self as viewed and interpreted, and the self as viewer and observer.
Education
2026 MA, Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2024 MFA, TransArt Institute for Creative Research, Liverpool, UK
2020 Graduate Certificate, Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
2017 BA, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, USA
Collections
Group Shows
2026
GreenFamily Art Foundation
, Dallas, Texas, USA
2026 The Graduate Collection, The Royal Society of Arts, London, UK
2026 RCA MA Painting Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2025 In the Presence, Samuele Visentin, London, UK
2025 The Record of a Split, Samuele Visentin, London, UK
2025 It’s complicated to be sincere, Polina Berlin Gallery, NY, New York, USA
2024 Transart Finals, Liverpool John Moore University, Liverpool, UK
2023 Heirloom, Cabin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2022 Emotional Intelligence, Polina Berlin Gallery, NY, New York, USA
2017 Take Care, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, USA
2013 Galerie Athénée 4, Geneva, Switzerland
Press
2022 Polina Berlin Gallery
2022 VooStore
Hanae Ishara Moreno Niimi
hanaemoreno@protonmail.com
@hanaemorenoniimi
I paint to understand what it means to occupy a body in space. My work is autobiographical. I look at my family, my ancestors and my world to understand what we have become, how we have gotten here, and consider where we are going. Although I paint people, my work is not about individuals. I look at the weight of a sitter’s presence in discourse with his or her setting, and work to capture the experience of the self as viewed and interpreted, and the self as viewer and observer.
Born in Nagoya
Education
2026 MA, Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2024 MFA, TransArt Institute for Creative Research, Liverpool, UK
2020 Graduate Certificate, Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
2017 BA, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, USA
Collections
2026 GreenFamily Art Foundation, Dallas, Texas, USA
Group Shows
2026 The Graduate Collection, The Royal Society of Arts, London, UK
2026 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2025 In the Presence, Samuele Visentin, London, UK
2025 The Record of a Split, Samuele Visentin, London, UK
2025 It’s complicated to be sincere, Polina Berlin Gallery, NY, New York, USA
2024 Transart Finals, Liverpool John Moore University, Liverpool, UK
2023 Heirloom, Cabin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2022 Emotional Intelligence, Polina Berlin Gallery, NY, New York, USA
2017 Take Care, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, USA
2013 Galerie Athénée 4, Geneva, Switzerland
Press
2022 Polina Berlin Gallery
2022 VooStore