Chisato Yamakawa (b. 1998, Columbus, Ohio) is a conceptual artist whose work examines the ephemeral nature of experience and how seemingly disparate moments—both personal and collective—accumulate, interact, and shape our understanding of ourselves. Working in series, she engages with acts of marking and recording, attempting to confront her "anxiety and hyper-awareness of the fleeting nature of time" while registering encounters, objects, and traces as part of a larger, interwoven whole. Each series takes on a distinct medium and approach yet remains tied to a deep interest in mapping time and tracing patterns of connection. Through this process, she considers how even the smallest gestures and occurrences reverberate, revealing

subtle structures within life.

Describing herself as an artist-archivist, Yamakawa is drawn to self-reflection, the art of observation and documentation, and the quiet resonance of everyday objects and occurrences, framing them as markers of time's passage. Record functions as an autobiographical catalog, identifying ordinary items as (potential) reference points in personal history. The photo series, Endotic Remains, chronicles a residual subway ad panel altered over months by anonymous contributors, accumulating layers of (un)intentional marks and eventual erasure. In Fragments, Yamakawa adapts the traditional Japanese Yūzen silk-dyeing technique into abstract form, distilling

personal experiences into layered and compositional impressions of memory. Through these explorations, she does not seek to impose meaning or a sense of nostalgia on the passage of time but instead imbues moments as waypoints—signposts along a shifting, nonlinear path where memory, observation, and form intersect.

Yamakawa holds a Master of Science in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University, where she also completed a concentration on visual representation and a Minor in Visual Studies.