Chika Matsuda

Born in 1983, in Japan. Graduated and received her BA from Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, New Zealand in 2006. MFA from University of Arizona, U.S.A. in 2010. Matsuda has been invited to several artist-in-residencies, such as Process-Space Art Festival (Bulgaria), Border Art Residency (U.S.A.), Prairie Center of the Arts (U.S.A.), Agora Winter Residency (Germany), Homesession (Spain), Centre CLARK (Canada). Since 2015, she started to work as an inter-disciplinary collaborative team Earless Mouth / Mouse. The team incorporates software programing and technology with Art, and their work have been awarded a judge’s prize at Gifu Land of Clear Waters Art Festival Art Award IN THE CUBE 2017 in Japan. In 2019, member of Earless Mouth / Mouse, Miwo Amamiya and Matsuda started a collaborative unit “CHIKA, MIWO, & MORE”. Their projects are process oriented which involves discussion with people in the community, and often produces side projects such as a bar, a cafe, a salon, magic show, and fortune telling, and so on. They use these side projects which appears to be playful, faking and non-sense performance as a communication tool.