Born in 1992 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai is a mixedmedia
artist who sensitively explores ways to take root in her two home countries of Japan
and Romania under the theme, "connections between land and people”. She
performs cultural and anthropological field work including documentation of
indigenous festivals and folk religions in various parts of Japan and abroad. In recent
years, she has been involved in the field of primatology as an extension of her work.
Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts with a degree in
Oil Painting at the top of her class and as a valedictorian of the Faculty of Fine Arts,
where she also completed an MA in Global Art Practice. She is now enrolled in the
doctoral program in sculpture at Tokyo University of the Arts.
She has had exhibition in Japan and internationally: The Museum of Modern Art,
Saitama, Japan (2023, 2020-2021); The National Museum of Contemporary Art,
Romania ( 2020); Hoi An, Vietnam ( 2019); Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo,
Japan (2019); Chambord, Paris, France (2017) etc.
Currently working in Romania as an overseas researcher of the Pola Art Foundation
in 2022.