ABOUT

Reclaim Your Color

Color has been my guide for over twenty years.

Through photography, performance, kimono, and visual storytelling, I explore identity, transformation, and the unseen parts of ourselves.

Born in Japan and shaped by two decades in New York, my work exists between cultures, histories, and personal reinvention.

Each piece begins with a color.

A color becomes a question.

A question becomes an image.

An image becomes a doorway back to the self.

My work invites people to reclaim what has been forgotten, hidden, or silenced, and to remember that becoming who you truly are is an act of courage.

Biography

MASAE SATOUCHI

Masae is a Japanese-born artist whose work explores color as a universal language of transformation, memory, and self-discovery.

Raised near Lake Biwa, Japan's largest freshwater lake, Satouchi spent her childhood immersed in nature and in a lifelong dialogue with color. What began as an intuitive fascination evolved into a creative practice that has guided her across continents, cultures, and mythologies.

For more than a decade, she has created photographic works inspired by color, sacred landscapes, mythology, ritual, and the relationship between identity and transformation. Traveling to places that call to her through intuition and symbolic imagery, she creates characters, costumes, and visual narratives that blur the boundaries between performance, nature, and personal mythology.

Her work has been presented through collaborations, performances, exhibitions, publications, and educational projects in New York, Japan, and internationally. Her images and creative collaborations have appeared in museum exhibitions, publications, and cultural programs, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Queens Museum, Southeast Museum of Photography, and New York University publications.

After spending more than twenty years in New York City, Satouchi is entering a new chapter of her artistic practice, continuing to explore how color, myth, and embodied storytelling can reconnect people to their most authentic selves.

Color is the identity.
Color is the magic.
Color is the universal language.