Migiwa Orimo is a Tokyo-born interdisciplinary artist whose practice straddles the fields of art and activism. Orimo primarily engages in installations comprising disparate elements such as text, drawings, photographs, objects, and textiles. As a social justice activist, Orimo facilitates the People's Banner Workshop and collaborates with social justice activists across various causes.
A five-time recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Creativity Excellence Award for her interdisciplinary art projects, Orimo was awarded residencies at the Headlands Art Center (2012) and SPACES Gallery's World Artist Project (2014). Her work has been shown extensively, including at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC), San Bernardino Art Museum (CA), apexart (NYC), UNC-Chapel Hill's Allcott Gallery (NC), University of Northern Colorado’s Mariani Gallery (CO), and in Ohio at the Springfield Art Museum, OSU's Urban Arts Space, Riffe Gallery (Columbus), Oberlin College's Baron Gallery, Wave Pool and Weston Art Gallery (Cincinnati).
