Seiko Harima lives and works in Los Angeles and Japan. The focus of her current work is to translate the Earth’s beauty and fragility, into oil on canvas landscape paintings. Her primary objective is for her artworks to reveal the sublime. Her landscapes are created using vivid colours, which sometimes venture far beyond a traditional landscape view, as we know it. 

In addition, she feels a responsibility, for her paintings to show that, the landscape is not immune to the impact of our presence. Through layered brushwork and luminous color, she renders landscapes that are not simply seen as representations of place, but are living atmospheres—spaces where memory, emotion, and environmental awareness converge.

Art Education

2024     Completed Master of Research (MRes) in Art & Humanities, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2023     Completed Graduate Diploma (MA) in Art & Design, Royal College of Art, London, UK 

2021     Completed MFA in Fine Art, University of Brighton, UK

2017    International Exchange Student, University of Brighton, UK

2018    Completed BA in Fine Art,  Nagoya University of the Arts, Nagoya, Japan 

Conference and Symposium Presentations

2026  June 27 - 29

NEW MEDIA ART CONFERENCE 2026

CICA MUSEUM, SEOUL, KOREA

2025  April 21

Exhibition and Poster Presentation, Painting Climate Change: positioning a painting practice between the modern and contemporary, Earth Day – 2025 Symposium, Art & Science Collide for the Climate - 2025,with NASA Research Team and  California State University's  Students. (See Cal State LA NSS Instagram (@calstatelanss).

Art Awards

2023   Gifu City 2022 Art and Culture Engagement Award, Gifu, Japan

2023 / 2024   Received  Bursary Scholarship (MRes) at the Royal College of Art, London

Instagram

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