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Megumi Shinozaki

Born 1981, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan

Biography

Founder of Edenworks, Tokyo, 2009 to present
Lives & works in Tokyo
Exploring the wide-ranging potentials of flowers and plants, Shinozaki often combines
natural elements with diverse items with her highly original sensibility to realize creations
in various engagements such as store decorations and window display, advertising andcommercials, music videos, movies, product packaging, and collaborations with fashionlabels.
Shinozaki was self-taught in dressmaking since 1997. She learned about flowers whileworking at a flower shop in Tokyo from 2002, for about 6 years. From 2009, Shinozaki has
worked independently as a floral creator. In 2015, Shinozaki opened “edenworksbedroom”, a weekend-only flower shop in Tokyo's Yoyogi Uehara neighborhood. In 2017,
she opened “EW. Pharmacy” in Yoyogi-hachiman, also in Tokyo. At "EW.Pharmacy,
customers can make their own original dried flowers mixes based on the concept ofmixing at a dispensing pharmacy. In 2017, “Paper Eden”, a paper flower project, waslaunched. In 2019, Shinozaki opened “PLANT by edenworks” in Tomigaya, Tokyo, aconcept shop that considers what to leave behind for the future without throwing awayflowers.

1981

Born in Tochigi, Japan.

1997

Self-taught in dressmaking since high school

2002

Self-taught about flowers while working at a flower shop in Tokyo for about 6 years

2009

Independent as a flower creator

2015“edenworks bedroom”, a weekend-only flower shop, opens in Tokyo's Yoyogi Uehara

2017“EW. Pharmacy” opened in Yoyogi-hachiman, Tokyo, where customers can make theirown original mixes based on the concept of mixing at a dispensing pharmacy.

2017
2019

“PAPER EDEN”, a paper flower project, was launched.

Opened “PLANT by edenworks” in Tomigaya, Tokyo, a concept shop that considers
what to leave behind for the future without throwing away flowers

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Megumi Shinozaki

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019“WHAT REMAINS IN FUTURE?” will be held at COMINGSOON, Tokyo, as a special
exhibition for edenworks' 10th anniversary.

The exhibition features works for the future using edenworks’ product “Flower DownPiece”, which was born out of a desire not to discard broken or scratched flowers andfallen petals that can no longer be sold due to quality control.
2018

Presented an installation of paper flowers, “PAPER EDEN”, decorated on a piano at Art
Piano in Marunouchi at Oazo, Tokyo

An installation using “PAPER EDEN” was exhibited at the concept shop “The Little B” inShanghai.
2017

The work “one fine day”, in which fresh flowers were transformed into dried flowers,was shown at Spiral Garden in Tokyo.

Presented the installation “Floral hothouse” using PAPER EDEN at the trade show
“showUP” in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
PAPER EDEN", an installation of paper flowers, was shown at The Gallery of Rossana
Orlandi during the Milan Design Week.
2020

Photographer Yoshiyuki Okuyama and edenworks held a special exhibition “flowers” at
PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO. The exhibition features photographs of flowers that would
otherwise be discarded and displayed in Okuyama’s studio, as well as an installationthat recreates a garden in the gallery.

2019

Photographer Koji Honda and Emi Shinozaki held a two-person exhibition “wander-migrating-” at Spiral Garden in Tokyo. Using a fir tree that is discarded as a Christmastree, they will present an installation to connect it to the next.

2014

Fumihito Toba and Emi Shinozaki held a 10-day flower shop “△ flower shop Yamakaku”
with the theme of “Japan” at ROCKET (Tokyo).