Biography
Niko Mitsuko graduated from University of Nevada Las Vegas, where she first started her artist career, with a BFA in Fine Art with an emphasis in Photography and a BA in Film. She moved to Portland, OR and established herself as a working artist, where she obtained gallery representation. She currently lives in Berlin, Germany to learn more about art and the different art scenes.
Her background is printing in a darkroom for hours at a time, and using various cameras from 35mm to 4x5 cameras. She currently uses her TLR and 4x5 but she mostly uses her DLSR for her current work.
She believes that art is the soul of society, and strives to create art every time she picks up a camera. She creates photographs that have a painterly look and feeling be it abstract, surrealism or minimalism. She continuously strives to push the boundaries of what is considered a photograph and what a photograph can be.
Recently she received Honorable mention from International Photography Awards 2012, The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, and officially selected in PX3 Prix De La Photographi Paris. She was recently published in F-Stop magazine "Landscape" issue and PHOTO+ a Korean photographic arts magazine. She is also published in Photographers Forum “Best of Photography 2010” where she was award a certificate of Excellence is Photography by Photographer Forum.
