Chie Ushio Artist | New Jersey, US & Tokyo, Japan

Figurative paintings on political systems and the body

Working primarily in acrylic on canvas, she creates figurative paintings that examine how political systems—healthcare, war, race, and immigration—shape emotional life and are absorbed into the human body.

All works American Dream FEAR Pain Human Rights Portraits
4 works · 2024—2025

Work bearing witness to atrocity and its aftermath, from Gaza to the marks violence leaves on a single body. These pieces refuse both spectacle and forgetting, holding grief without turning it into something to consume. To make them is a way of insisting that what happened be seen and remembered.