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Books available for purchase
Attends-moi!
- A graphic novel about parenting in French Canada. [6×9 inches, 250 pages, Japanese, 2023]
- “Attends-moi !” is a non-fiction graphic novel by Shié Kasai about being a mother in Montreal and raising a daughter who was born as a premature baby. The stories cover various everyday life events over the span of the first five years with her daughter. This book compiles all the stories written between 2012 and 2019, in Japanese.
Supermarket visits with my tween daughter: things she chose to find unexpectedly tasty
- [13×20 cm, 36 pages, English and Japanese, 2022]
- 2021. It’s the COVID-19 pandemic. My daughter is eleven and acting like a tween. We make our monthly asian supermarket visit and try new food. Parenting and food. Written in English and Japanese.
Put Foot
- [18×18 cm, 24 pages, English, 2022]
- Put foot is a colourful picture book for all babies and kids who are interested in where to put their feet. Teach some nuances of simple English grammar in a fun way. Text by Dac and illustration by Shié.
Muku & Coro in Rauma, Finland
- [23×18 cm, 48 pages, English, 2012]
- A record of a site-specific installation project with seven collaborators carried out in 2010 in Rauma, Finland.
Survival Japanese Cooking
- [16×16 cm, 132 pages, English and French, MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), 2010]
- Exhibition Catalogue. Text by Tatiana Mellema, Zoë Chan
Projects and exhibitions:
Once I had an uterus – a graphic novel in progress (2023 ~ )
Summer 2023. I had a hysterectomy, a surgery to remove the uterus.
Supermarket visits with my tween daughter: things she chose to find unexpectedly tasty (2020-2021)
People I love (2020 ~ )
Short comic strips about my family and everyday life.
Attends-moi! Japanese comic about parenting in French Canada. (2012 – 2019)
Home/Making: Remixing the everyday
ArtBank, Ottawa 2019
Vivre Ensemble – The Connections
Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Bishop Quebec 2017
L’Attrait du choix/The Allure of Choice
Canada Council for the Arts, Artsouterrain, Nuit Blanche, Montréal 2016
Maintenant ouvert/Temporairement fermé
Artsouterrain, McGill Metro Station, Nuit Blanche, Montréal 2012
DIASPORASIE
La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal 2011
Muku & Coro (landscape paintings with dogs)
7 collaborators’ houses, Raumars A-i-R residency, Rauma, Finland 2010
Survival Japanese Cooking
Eleanor London Côte Saint-Luc Public Library, Montréal 2010
P2P / peer to painting (a simulation)
Oboro residency, Montréal 2009
Survival Japanese Cooking
A solo exhibition, MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), Montréal 2008
Powell Street Festival Vancouver 2008
CBC ARTSPOTS 2006
(#throwback 2017)
far beyond
Participating 15th Paris Biennale (2006 to 2008)
Momentum
Oboro, Montréal 2007
Animal! Group Show
Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver 2006
This Neck Of The Woods
Rotterdam, Holland 2006
far beyond
Para GLOBE, Tokyo, Japan 2006
Muku & Coro (11 landscape paintings with dogs)
11 collaborators’ houses / Articule, Montreal 2006
Frail 01, towards a future art Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film
Durham, Ontario 2005
Library Project / le Project Bibliothéque
St-Sénegal public Library, Sherbrooke Quebec 2004
Muku & Box
Gallery 101, Ottawa 2004
Muku & Box
anticorp, Montréal 2001
Ripple Across the Water
Tokyo Watarium Museum 1995
Poromenta
Sapporo 1995
Collections
The Art Bank, Canada 2010
S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst) Ghent, Belgium 1995
Videos
P2P (Peer to Painting) 2009, watch on YouTube
CBC Artspots 2006, watch on YouTube
Anather Ordinary Afternoon 2004, watch on YouTube
Articles
make your own sushi and Survival Japanese Cooking, erudit, 2009
Hot dogs in your bento box, The McGill Daily
Sushi heart attack, The Concordian
Survival Japanese Cooking, Papersky
“You will surely find something if you look hard for it.”
Professor Ambroży Kleks
Akademia pana Kleksa
Shié Kasai 