Ayumi Kudo
Born in 1980 in Okayama, she graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara. She illustrated her unique world views mainly through works combining images and texts, which were published and exhibited in Europe and Japan. She won the 14th Mr. I Development of Rising Artists Prize of Okayama Prefecture in 2021, and was awarded second place at the 2011/2012 San Fedele Arti Visive Prize in Milan; she was selected for the Illustrators Exhibition at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 2019 and 2012. She published Le cose in-misurabili (Seigensha, 2018) and Esercizio del bacio (Seigensha, 2021). She has lived in Italy since 2002 with her sculptor husband and her daughter.