Michiko Okano, Ph. D. in Communication and Semiotics, Professor of the Undergraduate and Graduate Programs of History of Asian Art at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Collaborator Professor in the Graduate Program at the Japanese Studies Center of the University of São Paulo (USP), Coordinator of the GEEA (Asian Art Study Group). Author of Ma: in between spaces of art in Japan (Annablume, 2011), Manabu Mabe (Folha de S.Paulo, 2013), Helena and Riokai: between Brazil and Japan, Paris (Galeria 132, 2021). Editor of Orient (yourself): Expandig Borders. (UNIFESP, 2014), Aesthetic Concepts: from transtemporal to spatial in Japanese Art (GEAA, 2021), Echoes of Catastrophes (GEAA, 2023). Research focuses on the artistic dialogue created by the circulation, connection and translation of objects of art, artists and culture between Japan and the West. Curator of following Art Exhibitions: InCommon Gaze: Revisited Japan at Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Curitiba, from March to September 2016, Transpacific Borderlands: The art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City and São Paulo, held at Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles) from September 2017 to February 2018, Helena and Riokai: between Brazil and Japan, at 132 Gallery from November 2021 to January 2022.