Noriko Okaku was studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art, completing an MA (RCA) in Animation in 2005. Her work in various media often retains a collage art element. She borrows, adopts, copies and recycles existing images to explore the diverse avenues of perception. Her work explores the eclecticism and mystery/strangeness underlying everyday objects and actions.

Noriko's video work incorporates drawing, collage, photography, painting and animation. Her films have shown extensively around the world and awards include: Best film, Lucca Film Festival, Italy; Best Music Video Award, Ottawa International Animation Festival, Canada; Best Audiovisual Performance, International Videofestival Bochum, Germany; Beck’s Futures Student Prize, ICA, UK.
She has presented audiovisual live performances at Donaufestival, Austria; Anilogue, Hungary; the Museum of Image and Sound, Brazil; Circuito Off, Italy; Cimatics, Belgium; and the Design Museum, London.

The Running tongue, Video installation collaborating with Siobhan Davies and David Hinton, 2015
1945, 2014
Gospel of Oke, 2014
Mechanical Connecting of Void Elements and symbols, 2014
Mirror by Mirror, Collaboration film with Sergei Sviatchenko, 2013
shape lush, 2012
The Falcons, Patrick Wolf , 2011
Peace Starts With Me by Noriko Okaku, 2011
Electropia, JOYZ, 2011
The Allegory of Mrs. Triangle, 2011
Tetete, 2010
The resolution of the congress 1962, 2010
Something in between memories, 2010
Multifaceted (RCA), 2005
Sketch (RCA), 2004
Diametric Artimaid , 2003
Hellobye, 2003