Biography
Japanese native, Harumi Abe is an emerging artist who has shown her art extensively in South Florida. At age 19 she relocated herself to Miami on her own to pursue her dream of studying art. She attended International Fine Arts College (later it became Ai Miami International University of Arts and Design) where she met many of her painting mentors. After graduation in 2003, she continued her study at Florida International University and received MFA in 2008.

Harumi Abe’s inspiration is in everyday life. Her interests are personal and emotional. The main issues of her art are not formally convoluted but rather simple observations of daliy life. She paints about being Japanese and living in America, about being married to an American, living next to his American family and away from her home in Japan. In a strange, round about way, it is about being an American.

Abe is a recipient of the 2008 South Florida Cultural Consortium for Visual and Media Artists and has attended residency at Vermont Studio Center in 2010. She now makes her art in a homemade studio in her backyard in Hollywood, FL.

Abe is an adjunct professor at Broward College and FIU and the gallery director of BC Fine Arts Gallery.