Hiten Utami

Hiten Utami is a Japanese artist born in Tokushima in 1983 who holds an MFA from Kyushu Industrial University of Art. Her practice centres on graphics and includes murals, workshops and experimental projects that take art outside institutional settings. Her themes include mass media, social issues and personal stories, often with sarcasm and parody. She has been a resident at Buinho in Messejana, Portugal, where she made fabric murals for the series 'We are in the same boat'.