Bio
Mario is a Japanese/British photographic artist, curator and educator based in Manchester (b. 1980, Kamakura, Japan). He graduated from Manchester School of Art in 2007 and continues to work on his own projects and commissions from his adopted home city.
On a planet increasingly shaped by human activity, he is driven by a fascination in our paradoxical relationship to non-human nature and how our path has seemingly deviated from the natural order. This has formed the basis of an ongoing enquiry through long-term projects.
His work has been exhibited and published in Britain and internationally. He is currently developing long-term projects in both the UK and Italy that explore place in the context of industrial legacy, nature and community and is currently an artist in residence in Wigan Borough with Open Eye Gallery.
As a freelance curator, Mario has led and curated on a number of contemporary photography exhibitions in the North, working with and alongside organisations such as Open Eye Gallery, Impressions Gallery, HOME Manchester and Castlefield Gallery.