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Upcoming Exhibitions

  • 2026
    • Becoming You, A Journey From A Single Cell あなたになるまで:
      May 9 - November 22, 2026 in parallel with the Venice Biennale
      Palazzo Mora, European Cultural Center, Venice, Italy.

      Book Author: Dr. Shizuko Takahashi; Artist, Illustrator: Geraldine Ondrizek; Exhibition Assist: Jessica Joner

      Thanks to our sponsors: The National University of Singapore Center for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, The Wellcome Trust of London, University of Oxford, Oxford Population Health ETHOX, The Ford Family Foundation, ÈËÆÞÓÕ»ó College

  • 2027-28
    • Becoming You, A Journey From A Single Cellあなたになるまで: 

      Tokai University School of Medicine, Hachioji Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. 

      Book Author, Illustrator: Dr. Shizuko Takahashi ; Artist, Illustrator: Geraldine Ondrizek; Exhibition Assist: Jessica Joner

      The exhibition Becoming You , A Journey From A Single Cell あなたになるまで   ひとつの細胞からの物語   is an art–science collaboration that visualizes human development from a single cell to birth through twelve paintings mounted on Japanese scrolls. It is an excerpt from the companion book Becoming You: A Journey from a Single Cell. The work is accompanied by a video of the book read aloud by the author, Dr. Shizuko Takahashi. The scroll format of each painting evokes the sense of a tale unfolding, while the book is intended to foster genetic literacy and self-esteem by celebrating the beauty and commonality of the genes we share. Grounded in embryology yet shaped by narrative pacing, the project translates stages usually confined to microscopes and clinical diagrams into images that can be read slowly, like a story. Viewers move through fertilization, early cell divisions, and implantation, encountering both the precision of biological change and the fragility of its contingencies.

Recent Publications

  • 2025
    • Becoming You, A Journey From A Single Cell 
      あなたになるまで   ひとつの細胞からの物語

      Author: Dr. Shizuko Takahashi ’95 M.D. Ph.D. 
      Illustrations: Geraldine Ondrizek
      FUSOSHA Publishing Inc, Fuji Media Tokyo, Japan

      Becoming You: A Journey from a Single Cell is a picture book that introduces readers to the beginnings of human life through cells, genes, chromosomes, embryos, and inheritance. Using clear scientific explanations and evocative artwork using images from fertility and science laboratories, it shows how a single cell grows into a human being and how all living things are connected through the shared language of life. At the same time, the book goes beyond biology alone. It invites readers to think about family, kinship, and the ethical questions raised by reproductive medicine, embryo testing, and genetic knowledge. Rather than presenting genes as something that determines everything, the book emphasizes that life is also shaped by care, relationships, and the environment around us. Blending developmental biology, genetics, art, and bioethics, the book encourages children and adults alike to reflect on where we come from, how we become ourselves, and why every human life should be approached with wonder, humility, and care.

    • SOILS TURN: A Field Guide to Artistic Earthly Engagements  

      Alexandra R. Toland and Patricia L. Watts, Eco Art Space and Bauhaus Universität, Weimar, Germany.

Forthcoming Publications

  • 2026
    • Convergence, Personal Structures, Lucia Pendrana, Venice, Italy: The European Cultural Center.
    • Multiple and One: Writing Queer Global Art Histories, Alpesh Kantilal Patel, England: Manchester University Press.