Mio Okido
Mio Okido (* 1986 in Niigata, Japan) explores cultures of collective remembrance in a global context. She received a bachelor’s degree from Tokyo University of the Arts, spending a year abroad at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, before continuing her education at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, where she earned a Diplom (equivalent to an MA), and at the Institut für Kunst im Kontext at the Universität der Künste Berlin, where she received her MA. In 2023, she was a fellow at the Museum für Asiatische Kunst in Berlin, researching the imperial context of its Japanese collection, which resulted in a 2024 solo exhibition. That same year, in the group exhibition ÜberGrenzen at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, she displayed works which explored stories of migration in the GDR.