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SHIZUKU Biography

Born in May 2006
About Father：Graphic designer
About Mother：Tarot fortune teller with clients in the political and business
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At the age of 3, diagnosed with autism and Gittelman syndrome (a specific childhood disease caused by DNA defects) at Kumamoto University Hospital

March 2019：	Graduated from Kumamoto Support School Elementary School
April 2019：	Enrolled in Kumamoto Support School Junior High School
August 2021：	Transferred to Tokyo Metropolitan Kamishakujii Special Needs School in the third year of junior high school at Kumamoto Support SchoolMoved to Tokyo after mother remarried
September 2021：	Transferred to Tokyo Metropolitan Shakujii Special Needs School
March 2022：	Graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Shakujii Special Needs School
April 2022：	Enrolled in Tokyo Metropolitan Tanashi Special Needs School
July 2023：	Selected for first public exhibition “Gakuten” and exhibited at the National Art Center, Tokyo
August 2024：	First solo exhibition “Sound of Color” (Hear the voices of colors)
October 2024：	Currently in her third year at Tanashi Special Needs School, Tokyo

Her sharp sense of color and spatial awareness have been remarkable since she was a child, and she strongly displays her own world by covering furniture and toys with stickers.

She has been drawing since she was a child and has over 50 sketchbooks, and those who like paintings often call her the second Yayoi Kusama, but although the impact and worldview of Yayoi Kusama’s works are on the same vector, her works are completely different.

When I asked her about the intention of her works, she said that she “leaves it up to the colors.” She says that “colors” make her draw.

In order to broaden her daughter’s horizons, SHIZUKU traveled to Egypt, the birthplace of civilization, when she was in the sixth grade of elementary school. SHIZUKU was shocked by the children on the streets and began to long for a world where children all over the world would have no trouble getting food.

Both of her grandparents were designers, and her grandmother’s father, who was SHIZUKU’s great-grandfather, designed for Morishita Jintan and Kirin Beer.