Born in 1992 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai is a mixedmedia artist who sensitively explores ways to take root in her two home countries of Japan and Romania under the theme, "connections between land and people. She performs cultural and anthropological field work including documentation of indigenous festivals and folk religions in various parts of Japan and abroad. In recent years, she has been involved in the field of primatology as an extension of her work. Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts with a degree in Oil Painting at the top of her class and as a valedictorian of the Faculty of Fine Arts, where she also completed an MA in Global Art Practice. She is now enrolled in the doctoral program in sculpture at Tokyo University of the Arts. She has had exhibition in Japan and internationally: at The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan (​2023, 2020-2021); The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Romania (2020); Hoi An, Vietnam (2019); Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2019); Chambord, Paris, France (2017) etc. Major awards include ARTnews Japan "30 ARTISTS U35 2022", "TERRADA ART AWARD 2021" Washida Meruro Prize, "Forbes Japan 30 UNDER 30" 2020, "Y.A.C. RESULTS 2020" SWITCHLAB / Romania etc. She worked in Romania as an overseas researcher of the Pola Art Foundation in 2023.