Born at the base of Mount Ikoma (across both Nara and Osaka) in 1989. Endo obtained a bachelor’s degree in textiles from the Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts in 2013. In 2016, she graduated from Ars Shimura, a school run by Shimura Fukumi, a Living National Treasure for tsumugi (pongee) weaving.
Based in Okinawa, Tohoku and other regions in Japan, Endo uses weaving and dyeing to unpack the political relations rooted in the crafts, histories, and livelihoods within each place. At its core, her practice is about expanding the potential of crafts; she produces materials like rags, parachutes, and sails to performatively trace the vitality of textiles and people through her body.
Recent exhibitions include CONNEXIONS: Artists as Bridges (2025; Tottori Prefectural Museum of Art, Tottori), Ambient, Environment, Circumstances – The Topography of Contemporary Art (2025; Shimose Art Museum, Hiroshima), Gravity and Rainbow – About Minamihateruma Island (2023; Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka), Aichi Triennale 2022 (2022; Toyoshima Memorial Museum, Aichi) and The Beginning of Life/Art: Cloth Weaves Our Times, from Aomori (2020; Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori). Endo won the art egg prize at the 13th shiseido art egg (2019; Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo).

Mithu Sen is a conceptual and interdisciplinary artist whose practice subverts social norms, institutional authority, and art world hierarchies. Through radical hospitality and her philosophy of perpetual unbecoming, she resists fixity—using poetic, playful, and often provocative gestures to reimagine identity, belonging, and power. Her work dismantles societal codes, polite conventions, and the politics of the lingua franca, engaging critically with the disciplining of bodies and the unspoken rules that govern both language and the art world.
Sen’s works unfold as symbolic interventions—part disruption, part tenderness—inviting audiences into a zone where meaning slips, scripts dissolve, and new forms of being emerge.
Her practice has traversed continents, inhabiting biennales, museums, galleries, and experimental platforms where conventions are tested, and hierarchies unsettled. She has exhibited and performed at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2025); Sharjah Biennale 15 (2023); APT9 – 9th Asia Pacific Triennial (2018); Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2018); Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (2017); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2016); Unlimited, Art Basel (2016); Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan (2014); Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2014); Dhaka Art Summit (2014); Tate Modern Project Space, London (2013); Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2011); and National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (2008), among others.
In 2023, Sen’s ongoing commitment to dismantling polite impositions culminated in a major survey exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne, and her 25-year monograph, Unmyth, was launched in 2025. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Škoda Prize (2010) and the Prudential Eye Award for Contemporary Asian Art – Drawing (2015).
Sen lives and works in New Delhi, India.