Collection: Alissa Osumi

A Japanese-Brazilian artist, Alissa Osumi was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1990. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from the Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo in 2014 and completed an extension program in Media Aesthetics at PUC-SP in 2016. She has participated in various exhibitions, including the 9th Marília Contemporary Art Salon in São Paulo, Tokyo Designers Week in Japan, YOUTH at Off The Curb in Melbourne, Australia, and SINLOGO: Paintings at Casa SINLOGO in São Paulo, Brazil.

Currently, she resides in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where she has established herself and now dedicates herself fully to her painting practices and research. Her life experiences and personal journey, as well as transitions through different cultural landscapes, highlight the dynamics of how these landscapes evolve over time in alignment with societal rhythms. All these themes are integral to her current research.

Approach

Having recently immigrated to Montreal, Canada, she has now settled in and focuses her artistic practice on pictorial endeavours and research. Informed by her personal experiences, her research investigates the shifts in cultural landscapes, delving into the evolving dynamics of societal change over time, and examining themes of identity and belonging. The artist's research and interest lie in prosaic environments, which she portrays through carefully devotional and observational painting.

By investigating transitional spaces or everyday objects pictorially, Alissa sheds light on the visual and poetic aspects hidden beneath the veil of the everyday life experience. The act of painting common places and objects in a manner that escapes the swift regime of contemporary attention operates as the artist's vehicle - which, when executed through oil painting, conjugates with the time for contemplation of the visible aspect of shared reality in the urban environment.