1987 Tokyo
2012 Musashino Arts University BA Tokyo
2019 University of the Arts London Wimbledon College of Arts Painting MA
Developing Your Creative Practice Grant 2021-2022 Arts Council England
a-n Artists Bursaries 2021: Time Space Money
Solo Exhibitions
2022 'Quiet Hot Spring' at Bambinart Gallery, Tokyo
2020 'Word for a day' at Bambinart Gallery, Tokyo
2018 'The moss of the rock' at Bambinart Gallery, Tokyo
2017 'Absurd daily life between June 17th and February' at Bambinart Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2016 'Addiction and the wall' at Bambinart Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2015 'Mio Ebisu' at Monacle Deli, England, UK
2014 'Kaden' at taimatz, Tokyo, Japan
2014 ’Mio Ebisu- Shop art walk' at Cafe Shakey's in Tokyo designers week, curated by Haruka Ito (Island Japan 3331) Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Page Masters Art Fair SET Social, London
2021 'Art Action UK Online Artist Residency' Selected artist, AAUK
2020 'Deep autumn; How does my neighbour live; I wonder?' Curated by Mio Ebisu at SET Project Space Lewisham London
2020 '..and Female.' Online Exhibition curated by Khaoula B. Karaweigh
2019 ' Squeezed! ' at Nunnery Gallery, London
2019 '3331 Arts Fair' at Arts Chiyoda 3331, Tokyo, Japan
2017 'What we can do in the desert if our password is weak and we are stuck offline' at Everybody Needs Art, curated by Peter Peter Bencze, Budapest, Hungary
2017 '片山正通的百科全書 ” Life is hard…Let’s go shopping.” ay Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013 'Why not live for art?' at Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012 'Little little arts club'; presented by Yoshimoto Nara at Towada Art Centre, Aomori, Japan
Interdisciplinary Collaboration
2017 'Share the acts of bathing' Japan tour UK-JP artists/musicians collaboration Hokkaido, Tokyo, Beppu, Kyoto, Nagoya funded by Artist International Development Fund
2017 ' Living room' at Liebig 12, Berlin, Germany Soramame
2017 ' Verantwortung', Organized by Blat3000, Berlin, Germany
Commisioned Project
2021 'David Birchall's Walking & Talking' Main visual image.
2021 Otto Willberg's project 'Barbaric Mystical Bored' A scroll painting animation about an imaginary journey of Herbal Remedies in medieval time view of the parallel worlds.
2021 'P2P NGI Pointer Funded Program' visual image.
2013 'Art meets Beppu' Curated by Beppu Project, Collaboration with 'Yumenoki' Designed gift box and biscuit , Japan
Workshops
2021 'How to Draw Trees' @ Conway Hall, Antiuniversity Now, London, UK
Residency
2016 'DJVFA research residency' Bornholm, Denmark
2014 'Tsugihagi-Aomori' at art space tetra, with Yasuhito Kawasaki, Cordinator Saeko Oyama, Hakata, Japan
2013-2014 'Kiyoshima Apartment' by Beppu Project, Beppu, Japan
2013 ' Sunshine and Air' at Zamworl Museum, with Kanako Tada curated by Zamworl Museum, South Korea
Artist Statement
Mio Ebisu is a Japanese painter based in London. Her paintings create dream-like botanical landscapes drawing inspiration from various sources such as folklore, mythologies, herbalism and an obscure boundary moment between landscape and identity. Mio studied at Wimbledon College of Arts graduating in the UK in 2019 and Musashino Art University in Tokyo in 2012. Since her graduation from UAL she has lived in London and has a studio in SET art studio Lewisham. Her paintings are deeply connected to Eastern painting where she is from, such as scroll painting, ink,Ukiyoe and manga culture. She has never stopped exploring the possibilities to merge the cross-over regional visual culture into modern painting style. Bold colour and deformet figurative style with her immediate stroke recalls audiences their cheerful and inner personal view to the landscape. Her passion for colour lead to explore making own paints. This is strongly inspired from European Medieval manuscript and oil paints in the 15th centuries that the colour has not faded and is still fresh and vivid more than any other later works. In 2021-2022 She is granted by Arts Council England and a-n Artists Bursaries 2021 to have a time to practice the pigments and materiality to recall the old tradition and bring a deep connection between material and nature in a creative path. The subject of botany is from her fascination with plants and their powerful history. Plants are not just pleasant creatures, humans have been using their toxicity created from their defense system for medicine, dye, clothes, resin, and addiction such as drugs, tobacco and coffee. She has started researching the background of local plants, how they use them for her goal to compose bringing metaphors into narratives.