Biography

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Ibuki Kuramochi is a Japanese-born interdisciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Paris, Sydney, Taipei, and Rome.

Since 2016, she has studied Butoh under Yoshito Ohno at the world-renowned Kazuo Ohno Butoh Dance Studio. Kuramochi translates the poetic choreographic physicality of Butoh and the human body into performance, video, installation, and painting, exploring metamorphosis and post-human feminism.

She is a recipient of the 2025 AHL Foundation AAPI Woman Artist Fellowship, 2024 DCA EMPOWERMENT grant, 2024 DCA Dance in the City grant, and the 2022 SCIART Ambassador Fellowship.

In 2019, she was featured as Artist of the Year on the cover of LA WEEKLY' featired as PEOPLE 2019. In 2025, she was named one of the Ten Essential Local Artists in LA by Los Angeles Magazine.

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Artist Statement 
 

My interdisciplinary art practice centers on exploring the expressive potential of the human body across various mediums such as video art, digital painting and Butoh dance performance. Rooted in a critique of patriarchal ideals, my work aims to reimagine the female form as a locus of empowerment. Influenced by Butoh, a post-WWII Japanese dance form that rejects Western modernization, I challenge traditional norms by foregrounding the phenomenal female body and invoking feminist concepts like cyborg manifest.

Drawing from post-human feminism, my work delves into the intersection of technology and the body, exploring themes of mutability, transformation, and agency. Inspired by my own experiences, including vivid nightmares, my art embodies a visceral representation of the female experience, reclaiming autonomy over bodily representation. Through the convergence of physicality, sexuality, and transformation, my work offers an alternative perspective on the body in today's virtual world, prompting reflection on gender, identity, and societal constructs.

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