MICO MAI (ミコ マイ、1988年8月15日) 福岡出身の祈りの芸術家、パフォーマー、舞台芸術家。Performance Painting（芸術作品）では、永久の愛、そして儀式の瞬間を表現している。テーマにより様々な技法、材料を用い、特に鉱物を埋め込むことを特色としている。即興で描くイラスト画では、人物の過去、現在、未来を表す。幼少期より神話で学んだ輪廻転生に深く興味を抱き、想像した世界、宇宙、女神、精霊、妖精を描き始める。10歳の時に芸術家として身を捧げることを誓い、15歳より約10年間カナダ、アメリカ、イギリスで映画、舞台の演出と芸術を学ぶ。世界最高峰のロンドン芸術大学 Central Saint Martinsで Performance Design：コンテポラリーダンス、ライブパフォーマンス、オペラ、映画などの衣装メーク、舞台セットや演出の才能を開花させる。2012年帰国後、東京を拠点に世界の伝統文化芸能にふれ、翌年よりPerformance Paintingの制作を始める。作品を青山サロンにて常設する。地唄舞 花崎流 家元 花崎杜季女氏の厳島神社奉納舞（2014年）に感銘を受け、翌年 技芸天をイメージしたPerformance Painting『～厳しの君～』を製作、新作発表会を開催後、新稽古場に納める。2015年、光とシンクロする祈りのパフォーマンスを解禁。青山で開催されたパフォーマンスイベントを皮切りに、全国でパフォーマンスとワークショップを開催。2016年7月Japan EXPO in Paris 参加、8月15日 竹生島宝厳寺にて弁才天様のPerformance Paintingと祈りのパフォーマンスを奉納。現地名産である浜ちりめんとガラスが埋め込まれた作品は、本堂に安置されている。2017年、母から伝授された黄金瞑想をロンドンで教えたのち出羽三山 聖地 濁沢の修行を経て、出羽三山神社と大聖坊へ火と水の瀬織津姫様の絵画作品とじねん舞を奉納した。瀬織津姫奉納作品ドキュメンタリー上映会 じねん を各地で上映中。
MICO (August, 15th, 1988) is a Fukuoka-born Artist of Prayer, Performer, Theatre Artist and Costume Designer. She creates Forever Love. The concept behind her work is created by things unseen: the synchronized light of goddesses, spirits, and fairies; the universe, fantasy, myths, dreams and metempsychosis are expressed through various mediums such as painting, theatre performance, film and animation. By the age of ten, MICO had already developed a clear artistic vision. From the age of 15, she spent approximately 10 years in Canada, the US, and London studying film, theatre performance, and art. She later attended the world renowned arts and design college, Central Saint Martins at the University of the Arts London where she further developed her talent in performance design,including live performance, opera, dance, film, costume, stage set design, make-up and stage direction.After returning to Japan in 2012, she incorporated Japanese traditional arts and culture. Since 2013, she presented her theatrical art and displayed her Performance Painting to the world. She was inspired by the light of the buddhist art goddess, Gigei-ten, during Jiutamai Master Hanazaki Tokijo’s traditional dance performance of dedication at Itsukushima Shrine in 2014. The following year, MICO produced and presented her Performance Painting Itsukushi no Kimi. Her works will be displayed at the Tokijyo Hanasaki New Training Institute. MICO’s light of the goddesses synchronization performance, MICO MAI Spectacular Spectacles opened in 2015. Her opening performance was held in Aoyama, followed by performances and workshops which were hosted nation-wide. Her studio in London will be moved in Paris. MICO joined Japan Expo in Paris in July 2016. She will present her Performance Painting of the buddhist art goddess, Benzaiten and MICO MAI Spectacular Spectacles at the dedication ceremony at Hogon-ji Temple on Chikubu Island on August 15th, 2016. 2017, she inherited her mother's Golden Gift Meditation & went back to London for teaching it to a Londoners between March to July. She was chosen to be a dedicator of an ancient goddess " Princess Seoritsu " by a Yamabushi master mountain guardian from the Three Mountains of Dewa. The Master Yamabushi took her fellows & her to the secreted holy mountain "Nigorikawa" for training & feeling the goddess. After that she created the goddess's art works & dedicated it with a Jinen dance to the dewa sanzan shrine & daishobo.
