Born in Tokyo, Japan.
Tomomi Nishizawa explores the evolving boundaries between beauty and medical practices, investigating how contemporary technologies reconstruct our understanding of body, skin, and self. Her work examines the fictionality underlying both cosmetic and medical interventions, questioning what constitutes the “natural” body in an era of enhancement.
In contemporary society, beauty and medicine have become inseparable—no longer secondary modifications of the innate body, but fundamental processes for acquiring what we perceive as our authentic selves. Nishizawa’s practice operates at the intersection of material manipulation and conceptual inquiry, challenging traditional boundaries between surface and depth, natural and artificial, self and other.
Through photography, sculpture, and installation, her work reveals the complex truth of beauty-medical practices while opening new pathways for understanding identity construction. Rather than remaining in purely critical territory, Nishizawa’s practice illuminates alternative possibilities for engaging with enhancement technologies, suggesting new frameworks for self-determination in an age of material transformation.