香港で生まれ育ち、17歳の時に渡米。日系中国系アメリカ人である彼女の作品には、文化的な影響と視覚的な追求が混在しており、 絵画的言語と自分の血統の両方について、自己発見のための踏み台となっている。コラージュ、ドローイング、版画、写真など、彼女は さまざまなメディアを使い分け、絵画へのアプローチに好奇心と驚きをもたらしている。

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Misato moved to the United States when she was 17 years old. As a Japanese-Chinese-American, her work contains a mixture of cultural influences and visual pursuits that serve as springboard for self-discovery— both of pictorial language as well as her heritage. From collage, drawing, printmaking, to photography, she uses the mediums interchangeably to provoke curiosity and surprise in her own approach to painting.

PAINTING IS WHAT I TURN TO FOR REST AND DISCOVERY. IT IS ALSO A PLACE WHERE I DEVELOP SENSITIVITY— TO SELF, TO THE ENVIRONMENT, AND TO THE OVERALL EXPERIENCE OF BEING PRESENT AND ALIVE. MY SUBJECTS VARY FROM FIGURE, LANDSCAPE, STILL LIFE, TO EVERYTHING BEYOND AND IN BETWEEN. RHYTHM, TEMPERATURE, PICTURE PLANE, GEOMETRY, AND COLOR ALL PLAY A ROLE IN CREATING PICTORIAL FORCE. ULTIMATELY, PAINTING TEACHES ME HOW TO LIVE PURPOSEFULLY WITH QUESTIONS AND EMBRACE SOLITUDE AND BEAUTY.