Tomiyo Sasaki is a Canadian artist of Japanese descent who is a pioneer of the video art medium. She attended art school in Canada, and obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, and her graduate degree in sculpture at the California College of Arts and Crafts. In 1969, she moved to New York. She began working with the video medium in 1971 when the medium was in its infancy, and has continued to the present. She has traveled and exhibited internationally. During the 1980s and 1990s, Ms. Sasaki traveled to places as diverse as the Falkland Islands, the Galapagos Islands, Kenya, Egypt, Japan, Tibet, and China, to gather footage for her installation projects. She has received numerous awards, including Canada Council, Tokyo Video Festival grand prizewinner, Asian Cultural Council grant, NEA, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She maintains a studio in New York, and is currently creating virtual video installations utilizing video footage incorporated within synthetic 3D space.

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