Beatrix 'Bix' Fife was born in Sweden of Anglo-Norwegian parents and grew up in France and Italy. Bix spent her childhood in Rome and her teens in Paris. She speaks English, Italian, French, Norwegian and Japanese. The one constant in this symphony of languages is the voice of the flute, which she began playing in early childhood.

Bix studied visual arts in Norway, Hungary and Japan, after receiving a bachelor degree in economics. Through the discovery of ancient art forms, children’s works, folk music and poetry, the constant theme in her pictures is language and the human psyche.
After working in a theatre in New York, Bix stayed in Japan during the 90s and developed her own style of art brut/expressionist painting, continuing in Brussels.
In 2008 she received a Master Degree in Language Science (psycholinguistics) at the University of Franche-Comte, France, and teaches communication using creativity, body movement and drama techniques.

In Kyoto, between 1990 to 1999, she played in the progressive/punk/rock band La Cage Blanche and in the Art Performance group Phylloxera. She also performed for theatre and dance, Mau Dance and Taihen. In Brussels, between 2000 and 2010, she sang and performed in electropop group 'bix medard' which has given out 3 CDs ( 2008, 2009 and 2010).

After having spent a decade in Brussels, Bix and Marki Katagiri settled in 2010 in Tokyo. They immediately set up the French pop-jazz duo Bix&Marki through which they present soft original music, based on imagery, performed with voice, flute and guitar. The music is composed by Marki and the lyrics by Bix.
They perform in Tokyo and in various parts of Japan, travelling regularly on tour in Japan. They have created 10 CDs. As Bix covers many directions within the Arts, she explores the connection between words, colors, forms and sounds. She paints every day and enjoys discovering new forms of abstraction. She became a member of the Artweast online gallery and group led by Céline Brard in September 2022. Since then she has exhibited together with Japanese and Mauritanian artists, and sees the meeting and working with people around the world as an essential source of creativity and imagination. She believes that art can bring something to the world and started abstract drawing classes in 2021 in various parts of Tokyo and online. She has now classes at the French and at the Italian cultural Institutes, as well as gallery A Bientôt in Tokyo, a gallery specialized in abstraction, as well as the Tsurumaki Community Center in Setagaya.

As Bix covers many directions within the Arts, she explores the connection between words, colors, forms and sounds.

Visual Art exhibitions:

2024

Espace Bombon, Tokyo Sakurashinmachi, solo exhibition

2024

Papa Jon's café, Kyoto, Japan, Artweast

2023

Institut Francais Rive Gauche, Tokyo, Artweast

2023

La Parenthèse, Angers, France, Artweast

2023

La Maison des artistes, Noirmoutier, France, Artweast

2022

A Bientot, Tokyo

2021

A Bientot, Tokyo

2019

Fugensha, Tokyo

2018

Fugensha, Tokyo

2017

Fugensha, Tokyo

2016

Kissako, Tokyo

2015

Kissako, Tokyo

2013

Kissako, Tokyo

2012

Kanda Café, Tokyo

2010

Group exhibition at the Barbara Harsch House in Brussels, together with Barbara Harsch (photos) and Ariane Chesaux (paintings)

2006

Galerie Rossel Le Soir, Brussels

2002

Musée d’Art Différencié, Liège

2001

Centre Culturel de l’Ambassade du Japon, Brussels

1999

Musée d’Art Spontané, Brussels

1998

Galerie Le Déco, Tokyo

1997

Galerie Sowaka, Kyoto

1996

Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo

1995

Galleri Andrej Nebb, Oslo

1993

Kyoto City Art Museum

1991

St Jakob im Def. Kunstwoche, Austria