Mamoru Okuno (b.1977 in Osaka, Japan) received a BFA from The City University of New York in 2001. His works have been exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo (2012), Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei (2011), Aomori Contemporary Art Centre in Aomori (2011), Museum Quartier in Vienna (2009), Nagi Museum of Modern Art in Okayama (2009), De Young Museum in San Francisco (2007) and the National Gallery of Armenia in Yerevan (2006). In 2010, the “etude no.13 hanging ice” won the first prize at the TOKYO EXPERIMENTAL FESTIVAL organized by Tokyo Wonder Site.