Through the gates, Nicolas Buffe's 'Arche'Photo: Katrina Grigg-SaitoJef Aérosol's figures make a lovely repetition, showing up on various surfacesPhoto: Katrina Grigg-SaitoPhoto: Katrina Grigg-SaitoMore Jef AérosolPhoto: Katrina Grigg-SaitoTokyo Metro to Paris MetroPhoto: Katrina Grigg-SaitoFashion students take over the second floorPhoto: Katrina Grigg-SaitoChoose your artistPhoto: Katrina Grigg-SaitoMathieu GrialouPhoto: Katrina Grigg-SaitoChairs in stairs, Kimio Tsuchiya APT (Tadayuki Tahara, Kohsuke Kimura)Photo: Katrina Grigg-Saito Monsieur Chat's Cat takes over the wallPhoto: Katrina Grigg-SaitoSpeedy Graphito covers the wallsPhoto: Katrina Grigg-SaitoTakashi Nakajima's tree 'the Beautiful, the Ugly' will grow over the course of the exhibit to take over the office spacePhoto: Katrina Grigg-SaitoMore Speedy GraphitoPhoto: Katrina Grigg-SaitoFrom the window, Lucille Reyboz and Hitomi Fujiwara wrap trees and photograph themPhoto: Katrina Grigg-SaitoManika Nagare invites you to sew projects from old fabric while she sketches youPhoto: Katrina Grigg-SaitoStill at workPhoto: Katrina Grigg-SaitoPhoto: Katrina Grigg-Saito
Born in Boston, but with her first memories of Hawaii, Katrina Toshiko Grigg-Saito arrived in Tokyo in December of 2007. She received her Master's from Boston University as an Earhart Fellow in Journalism and Sociology. Her work was on societal views of multi-racial identification, and took radio form in a piece she wrote and produced for <a href="http://www.npr.org/">NPR</a>. From 2005-2006 she was a member of <a href="http://www.uniondocs.org/">UnionDocs</a> in NYC where she curated, performed, made art, wrote <a href="http://yellowarrow.net/index2.php">yellow arrows</a>, orchestrated performance events and cooked massive dinners. As a dancer and actress she performed a lot, but liked most working as a dancer at the Joyce Soho in NYC on 29 Friends, playing a gang banger at the Huntington, singing at the Volksbühne in Berlin and being a company member/writer for the <a href="http://www.nyneofuturists.org/site/">NY NeoFuturists</a>. Now she writes for <a href="http://www.skirt.com/">Skirt Magazine</a>, <a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/">Japan Times</a>, <a href="http://www.metropolis.co.jp/specials/744/744_top.htm">Metropolis</a> and is Vice Editor of this site here.