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Asuka Goto  Artist Statement When I was 14, I moved with my family from the US to Japan. And one of the first things that caught my attention there was the height of the handle bars on the local trains. In the US, I had always been forced to find one of the few vertical poles to hold on to as the train moved, because I'm not nearly tall enough to reach the ones that hang above the seats. I had always dismissed the inconvenience as a natural consequence of being petite. But after the realization that I could actually grab hold of the horizontally mounted poles on all of the Japanese trains, I began to think more about issues of height and scale, about architectural standards and how they vary from place to place. I began to recognize, too, that though I remained constant, changes in my surroundings altered my perceptions of myself both in a physical sense and a psychological one. Over the past several semesters I've explored different ways of converting my surroundings in an effort to reinvent my relationships with the people and things around me. These alterations are inherently unsustainable (and are thus primarily presented to the viewer in photographic form) and in many ways they are absurd and implausible proposals. Yet with each work, I believe there comes a moment when a genuine shift of some kind does occur. Most recently I’ve returned to creating participatory installations. Comprised of square wooden risers arranged in a simple grid, my latest work allows viewers that same opportunity to challenge their spatial relationships to the architecture which houses them. Curriculum Vitae Education Tyler School of Art of Temple University Candidate for Masters of Fine Arts with concentration in Sculpture, June 2007 Brandeis University, GSAS Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Studio Art with concentration in Sculpture, 2005 GPA 4.0/4.0 Brandeis University Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts with concentration in Sculpture, highest honors, cum laude, 2004 GPA 3.6/4.0; GPA in major 3.8/4.0  Grants and Awards Fred and Naomi Gibson Hazel Prize Woodmere Art Museum, 2006 Festival of the Arts Grant Brandeis University, 2004 Deborah Josepha Cohen Memorial Award in Fine Arts Brandeis University, 2004 Festival of the Arts Grant Brandeis University, 2003 Remis Grant Brandeis University, 2002 Exhibitions CAA Regional MFA Exhibition Curated by Christian Rattenmayer Hunter College/Times Square Gallery New York City, NY, 2007 Woodmere Art Museum’s 67th Annual Juried Exhibition Curated by Polly Appelbaum Philadelphia, PA, 2007 Custody Battle Penrose Gallery, Tyler School of Art Philadelphia, PA 2006  Arches Student Print Exhibition Boston Printmaker’s Biennial Boston, MA, 2005 Related Work Experience Teaching Assistant (3D Foundation and Sculpture Area), Tyler School of Art, September 2006 – Present Academic Intern (Sculpture Area), Tyler School of Art, September 2006 – Present Academic Intern (Sculpture Area), Tyler School of Art, September 2005- May 2006 Teaching Assistant (3D Design), Brandeis University, August 2004 – May 2005 Other Related Experience Artist Assistant to Jude Tallichet, Iron Artist Competition, PS 1, 2006 Artist Assistant to Tory Fair, Socrates Sculpture Park commission, 2005  Women’s Studies Research Center installation, Brandeis University, 2005 Edmund J. Safra Center for the Fine Arts Project Committee and Programming Update Subcommittee Student Representative Brandeis University, 2004 - 2005
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