MITSU SALMON
EDUCATION
2012- 2014 MFA- School for the Art Institute Chicago
2001- 2005 BFA- New York University | Tisch School of the Arts
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2019 Indianapolis Museum of Art (forthcoming)
2019 Trances of Botany, Links Hall, Chicago
2019 Trances of Botany, Brynt Lake Bowl, Minneapolis
2019 Illusive Waves (with Milad Mozari), Incheon Artplatform, Korea
2019 Echoes of Botany (with Milad Mozari), Madou Trienalle, Taiwan
2018 Mt. Shamao (with Milad Mozari), ESS with Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago
2018 Trances of Botany, PAM, Los Angeles
2018 Formosan Wood, Oilwick, Indianapolis
2018 Resonate Traces (with Milad Mozari), Presence, Sugar Space, Indianapolis
2018 Resonate Traces (with Milad Mozari), Taipei Artist Village, Taipei
2018 Trances of Botany (with Ryotaro), Urbanguild, Kyoto
2018 Formosan Wood, Orwellian Broods (HATCH), Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago
2018 Formosan Wood, HER environments, TCC Gallery, Chicago
2018 Out/ In Aka, New Genres, Tulsa Living Arts, Tulsa
2018 Tsuchi, University of Iowa, Iowa
2017 Kristy, Alphawood Gallery, Chicago
2017 Formosan Wood, Hamlin Theater, Chicago
2017 Falling, Sector 2237, Chicago, IL
2017 Falling, Inline (Inhabit), Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2017 Formosan Wood, Elastic Arts, Chicago
2017 Tsuchi, Alphawood Gallery, Chicago
2017 Tsuchi, Trade Routes, Links Hall, Chicago
2017 Kristy, Jello, Links Hall, Chicago
2017 Kristy, Anti- Inaugration Emergency Cabaret, High Concept Lab, Chicago
2017 Kristy, High Voltage, Electic Lodge, Los Angeles
2017 Out/ In Aka, Links Hall, Chicago
2016 Out/ In Aka Film, Oxbow screenings, Chicago Filmmakers, Columbia College, Chicago
2016 Tsuchi, A-Squared Asian American Performance Festival, Links Hall, Chicago
2016 Tsuchi, Echo, Studebaker Theater, Chicago
2016 The Girl with the Golden Hands, Tritriangle, Chicago
2016 The Girl with the Golden Hands, Open House, High Concept Labs, Chicago
2016 Ukiyo-e, Rovers (Inhabit Art Series), Comfort Station, Chicago
2015 Bathing Panel, Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival, Defrillator, Chicago
2015 Tsuchi, Primary Care, Julius Caesar, Chicago
2015 Tsuchi, Sponsored Artist Showing, High Concept Lab, Chicago
2015 Tsuchi, The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
2015 Tsuchi, Post-Butoh Festival, The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
2015 Highways, High Voltage, Electic Lodge, Los Angeles
2014 Highways, Impact MFA Thesis, The School for the Art Institute of Chicago
2014 Fish Dreams, Stroud Valley Arts Center, UK
2013 Fish Dreams, Actual Fictions, Defibrillator, Chicago
2013 Kristy, G-Hosts, Central Saint Martins, London
2012 Awakenings, Made Budhiana Gallery, Bali, Indonesia
2010 Passages, Santra Putra, Bali, Indonesia
2008 The Seminar, Outflow, Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles
2007 Odyssey, Hebbel Am Uffer at Hau 2, Berlin
2006 Odyssey, Studio Buehne, Berlin, Germany
2007 Flight, Act Art London Festival, London
2007 Flight, Diavolo Performance Center, Los Angeles
2006 Odyssey, Studio Buehne, Berlin, Germany
2006 Heartbeating: Kamikaze Down, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, New York
2005 Heartbeating: Kamikaze Down, Judson Church “About Town”, Dance Theater Workshop, New York
2005 Heartbeating: Kamikaze Down, Dixon Place, New York
2004 Heartbeating: Kamikaze Down, Performance Space 122, New York
2004 Heartbeating: Kamikaze Down, Pan Asian Repertory, New York
COLLABORATION WITH RYOTARO SUDO
2009 Fish Dreams, Pan Asian Repertory, New York
2009 Burning (with Ryotaro), Dresden Friedstaldt, Germany
2009 April Showers (with Ryotaro), , Starspace, New York
2009 April Showers, The Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles
2009 April Showers, Bizarre Café, Paris
2008 April Showers, Urbanguild, Kyoto
2008 April Showers,Nashi no Katashi Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2008 My Home the Library, Anatomy Riots, Los Angeles
2008 My Home the Library, Sushi Performance and Visual Arts, San Diego
DANCE AND THEATER COMPANIES
2008-2011 Company member Butoh dancer, Katsura Kan, Kyoto, Japan
2008-2011 Company member Butoh dancer, Ima Tenko and Kiraza, Kyoto, Japan
2007 Company member devised theater The Solvents, Germany and England
2003-2004 Actor, John Jesurun, New York
2003-2004 Puppeter and Actor, Bread and Puppet Theater, Vermont
ARTIST RESIDENCIES, AWARDS AND GRANTS
2019 Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
2019 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist, Chicago
2019 Signal Fire, Seattle
2019 Incheon Artplatform (with Milad Mozari), Korea
2018 DCASE IAP Grant (Chicago Department of Cultural And Special Events Indiviual Arts)
2018 Guildhall, East Hampton, NY
2018 PAM artist residency, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Taipei Artist Village Artist in Residence (with Milad Mozari) Taipei, Taiwan
2018 HATCH resident, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago
2017 Tsung-Yeh Artist in Residence (with Milad Mozari) Tainan City, Taiwan
2017 Midwest Nexus Touring Grant, Chicago and Iowa
2016 Link UP Artist in Residency, Links Hall, Chicago
2015 Oxbow, Fall Residency, Michigan, USA
2015 New City Top- Top 5 Emerging Dancer Performance for Tsuchi
2015 New City Best- Best Collaborative Multimedia Dance Performance for Tsuchi
2015 The Chicago Cultural Center, Works-in-Progress, Chicago, USA
2015 High Concept Lab, Chicago, USA
2012-2014 School for the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA Grant
2011-2012 Villa Pandan Harum, Bali, Indonesia
2006 Earthdance, Artist Residency through the Field, Massachusetts