Artist presentation

Misato Kurimune

Misato Kurimune (b.1988) is a contemporary artist based in Hyogo, Japan. Her practice is grounded in photography and expands across lenticular, mixed media, and AI-assisted techniques to explore the nature of perceptual experience and reality in contemporary society. She received her MFA in Printmaking from Kyoto Seika University in 2013 and is represented by TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY (Osaka), where she has held multiple solo exhibitions. Her work has been featured in exhibitions such as Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2021 (Sankei Shimbun Prize), Daegu Art Factory (South Korea), and the TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2024 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. In 2024, she published her first artist book Images (SunM Color), and has collaborated with fashion brands such as TOKYO BASE and ROOTOTE. Her work is held in the public collection of the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts. In a world shaped by code, Kurimune continues to investigate visuality, co-creation, and beauty. For more information, please visit www.misatokurimune.com or follow her on Instagram @m.kurimune.

Artist statement

Floral Prompt explores the evolving relationship between human intention and algorithmic suggestion. Beginning with her own photographs of flowers, Kurimune incorporates AI-generated prompts and curates the resulting images through her sensibility as an artist. The series reflects on the shifting nature of authorship in image-making: when machines participate in choosing what is beautiful, where does authorship begin and end? Flowers—timeless symbols of beauty and transience—serve as metaphors for this inquiry. Each work emerges from a dialogue between instinct and code, control and randomness, authorship and suggestion. Rather than aiming for visual perfection, Kurimune emphasizes ambiguity, process, and shared creation. In an era where images bloom not from petals but from prompts, she asks: who chooses what is beautiful now? The full series is available at misatokurimune.com/floralprompt.