Bio
Mario is a photographic artist, curator and educator based in Manchester (b. 1980, Kamakura, Japan). He graduated from Manchester School of Art in 2007 and continues to work on his own projects and commissions from his adopted home city.
On a planet increasingly shaped by human activity, his personal work is driven by a curiosity about our peculiar, paradoxical relationship to the non-human natural environment and how this visually manifests in our present moment.
His work has been exhibited and published in Britain and internationally at Open Eye Gallery, Centre for British Photography, HOME MCR. He is currently developing long-term projects in both the UK and Italy that explore place in the context of industrial legacy, nature and community and is currently an artist in residence in Wigan Borough with Open Eye Gallery.
As a freelance curator, Mario has led and curated on a number of contemporary photography exhibitions in the North, working with and alongside organisations such as Open Eye Gallery, Impressions Gallery, HOME Manchester and Castlefield Gallery.