Kei Ito
Kei Ito is currently the Marva and John Artist In Residence at University of Utah’s Department of Art and Art History teaching a class in art and trauma. The grandson of a survivor of the nuclear blast that devastated Hiroshima, Ito uses a variety of photographic processes combined with an intensive research and writing process to visualize his own nuclear heritage. “It’s significant that I use my body as a medium. Radiation is such a new idea that we don’t know what it does to DNA... When the A-bomb exploded, radiation or, as I like to call it, ‘invisible light’ pierced through my grandfather’s genes and those genes were passed onto me. Essentially, I am the container of irradiated light. I think of myself as a camera and film.”