KAKEYA Nayu

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Artist. Born in Tokorozawa City, Saitama Prefecture (Japan). After graduating at the top of her class in Japanese Literature from Otsuma Women’s University, she worked at a city bank and then studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts, the Department of Intermedia Art. While in school, she became a designer and event MC for the e-Sports “HADO” and became involved in the VR/AR game industry, and in 2018, her work “2.5 dimensional tactile sense” won the Governor of Tokyo Award and was exhibited in Ueno Onshi Park. Currently, she is working on “Art & Factory”, an activity to connect Japanese factories and art, in order to express the means to touch love.