Louise Rouse is an artist and researcher informed by print cultures and media archeology, based between Tokyo and London.
Her work has been exhibited at several major venues including TOKAS, Bosch Japan, Nakanojo Biennale, HAGISO, Frans Masereel Centrum, Bloc Projects, and Southern Vermont Arts Center, among others. She was an artist in residence at National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2023, recipient of the Ikuo Hirayama Cultural Arts Prize and State of the Art Prize by Printmaking Today in 2025, and is a former MEXT scholar nominated by the Embassy of Japan in London.
Rouse was a Visiting Researcher at the Creative Computing Institute, London, in 2023, and is a regular member of the artistic research philosophy group Art of Questioning at UAL, London, as well as the PRIINT research group convened by Professor Michael W Schneider which addresses questions of media philosophy and expanded printmaking. She completed her doctoral thesis at Tokyo University of the Arts. Her work centres on topics that intersect with gender and distributed (un)belonging through print, code, installation, and qualitative research.
