Okazaki is an artist and curator, born in 1955 in Tokyo, Japan. After withdrawing from Tama Art University’s Department of Sculpture in 1977, he attended B-Semi (Contemporary Art Basic Seminar) through 1979, later also serving as an instructor. He has traveled to the US under a scholarship from the Asian Cultural Council from 1986 to 1987, was invited to Trinity University’s Department of Art and Art History in Texas in 1990, received a scholarship from Mercedes-Benz to visit France in 1994, and was invited to the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada in 1999. He was also invited to participate in the Biennale de Paris in 2002, held a solo exhibition at the Sezon Museum of Modern Art in 2002, was appointed a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow in 2014, and held a solo exhibition at the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art from 2019 to 2020. Okazaki was director of the Japan Pavilion at the 8th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia in 2002. He is known as an art educator, having taught at Kindai University and the University of Tokyo, and is currently a visiting professor at Musashino Art University. Okazaki’s range as an artist is wide, and could be broadly described as covering all forms capable of consideration as works of art, from architecture and design to painting, sculpture, and video. He is also very active as a critic, and his writings include “Renaissance: Condition of Existence,” as well as “Abstract Art as Impact,” and “TOPICA PICTUS.”