About Tsubasa Kimura

Kimura Tsubasa explores the cultures of writing around the world through fieldwork, transforming those experiences into typeface works.
 

Her artistic practice began with calligraphy and expanded into installation art in 2004, followed by her Bird Brush series in 2009, created with brushes handcrafted from bird feathers. Through these works, she has explored the relationship between writing, space, materials, and the expressive possibilities of the written character.
 

Today, she travels to different parts of the world to conduct fieldwork on local writing cultures, traditional brushes, materials, and their historical contexts. Drawing from these experiences, she creates original typefaces, approaching the typeface not simply as a digital font, but as an artistic medium that carries and preserves cultural memory.
 

Her work has been exhibited and performed internationally, including at MOA Canada, Festival Asia (Spain), the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy, and Casa de Cultura in Argentina. In Japan, her work has been presented at the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (invited exhibition), the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, and Myoshin-ji Temple.
 

She graduated from Ryukoku University and received her M.Ed. in Calligraphy Education from Kyoto University of Education. She also holds a Teaching Certificate in Chinese Calligraphy from Tamkang University, Taiwan. She is the author of the long-running newspaper essay series Calligraphy in Everyday Life (Kurashi no Naka no Sho) for the Nara Shimbun.