about
Karin Tokunaga is a process based textile practitioner
b. Kobe, lives and works in Stockholm
Awards
2019 School of Design Dissertation Prize, ‘Resist Techniques and Techniques of Resistance: Crafting Patterns of Cultural Identity Through Textile Based Tactile Intelligence’
2019 Centre for Advanced Textiles Bursary Award
2019 Sustainability in Action Group Funding, Glasgow School of Art Sustainability
2018 The Gillian Purvis Award for Travel for Primary Research
Exhibitions
2021 Textile for Strandkantens Folkspa, Malin Lin Nordström & Jens Masimov, Södertälje
2019 Aizen-myōō (“dyed in love”), part of Degree Show, Glasgow School of Art
2019 4th Year Fashion and Textiles Work In Progress, Fleming House, Glasgow
2018 Group Residency, 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow
2018 Home Of Multiple Occupancy, Transmission Members Show, Glasgow
2018 In Residence, Glasgow School of Art POC Society, 16 Nicholson St, Glasgow
2018 In Conversation With Shaheeda Sinckler, In Residence, Market Gallery, Glasgow
2017 Composite, Oxford House, Glasgow
2017 Jupiter Campout: ROMANTI-CRASH!, Babaloose group performance, Jupiter Artland
2016 Hill St, Glasgow
2016 Milk and Two Sugars, Glasgow
2021 Costume and set design assistant to Tove Dreiman for echoes, MDT and Dansehallerne x Copenhagen Contemporary
b. Kobe, lives and works in Stockholm
Education
2015-2019 Textile Design (BA Hons), First Class, Glasgow School of Art,Awards
2019 School of Design Dissertation Prize, ‘Resist Techniques and Techniques of Resistance: Crafting Patterns of Cultural Identity Through Textile Based Tactile Intelligence’2019 Centre for Advanced Textiles Bursary Award
2019 Sustainability in Action Group Funding, Glasgow School of Art Sustainability
2018 The Gillian Purvis Award for Travel for Primary Research
Exhibitions
2021 Textile for Strandkantens Folkspa, Malin Lin Nordström & Jens Masimov, Södertälje2019 Aizen-myōō (“dyed in love”), part of Degree Show, Glasgow School of Art
2019 4th Year Fashion and Textiles Work In Progress, Fleming House, Glasgow
2018 Group Residency, 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow
2018 Home Of Multiple Occupancy, Transmission Members Show, Glasgow
2018 In Residence, Glasgow School of Art POC Society, 16 Nicholson St, Glasgow
2018 In Conversation With Shaheeda Sinckler, In Residence, Market Gallery, Glasgow
2017 Composite, Oxford House, Glasgow
2017 Jupiter Campout: ROMANTI-CRASH!, Babaloose group performance, Jupiter Artland
2016 Hill St, Glasgow
2016 Milk and Two Sugars, Glasgow
Other
2022 Costume for Super Detour Augury, performance and exhibition by Jens Masimov, Galleri Konsfack, Stockholm2021 Costume and set design assistant to Tove Dreiman for echoes, MDT and Dansehallerne x Copenhagen Contemporary