Midori Morrow

Midori is a artist and activist based in Portland Maine. Midori Morrow is an interdisciplinary artist and activist working with photographic installation. They received their Associates of Fine Arts in photography from the Delaware College of art and design in 2019, went on to get their Bachelors of Fine Arts in photography from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 2021, and received their Masters of Fine Arts from the Maine College of Art and Design in 2024. Morrow explores themes of identity and belonging within the Asian American diaspora. Their artistic practice works in tandem with their work as a nuclear peace activist. 

They have worked with multiple activist groups such as Peace Action and Physicians for Social Responsibility through giving artist talks and showing their art to discuss how the nuclear peace movement can live on within younger generations. In November of 2023 Midori attended as a delegate at the Second Meeting of States Parties at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. In August of 2023 they were the United States Delegate at The World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen bombs, where they participated in workshops in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan talking about the movement for nuclear disarmament. They also gave an artist talk at the world conference using their art as an entry point for the conversation of nuclear peace. Morrow has exhibited in groups shows in Philadelphia, Delaware, Colorado, and Maine.

Image: Everything I Never Told My Mother, laser cut rice paper, natural dyed rice paper scrolls