Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1989
Completed Master’s Program in Japanese Painting at Tama Art University Graduate School in 2015
Major Exhibition History
【Solo Exhibitions】
2024
“The Voice of Silence” (Kyoto Tsutaya Bookstore 6F Art Gallery/Kyoto)
2021
“Towards Comfortable Distance” Artglorieux GALLERY OF TOKYO, Tokyo
“Towards Comfortable Distance” Hertz Art Lab, Tokyo
2020
“Towards Comfortable Distance” (Itsuki Art Gallery/Tokyo)
“Beyond That” (Funen Art Academy/Denmark)
2018
“Garden of Ephemera” (Ueno no Mori Museum Gallery/Tokyo)
【Group Exhibitions】
2024
ART FUTURE TAIWAN (Hotel Grand Hyatt Taipei/Taiwan)
2023
biscuit gallery 2nd anniversary exhibition “grid2” (biscuit gallery/Tokyo)
re vo.2 (biscuit gallery/Tokyo)
ART TAIPEI (Taipei World Trade Center/Taiwan)
2022
“Rainbow Association” Changjiang Dong Gallery, Gifu
2021
“TECHNICOLOR’S Yoshino Gypsum 120th Anniversary Collection Exhibition” (Space O/Tokyo)
2019
“Juleudstilling” (Hollufgård gallery/Denmark)
Awards and Grants
2020 Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation “International Art Exchange Exhibition Grant”
2019 Public Interest Incorporated Foundation Yoshino Gypsum Art Promotion Foundation “Grant for Overseas Training of Young Artists”
2017 Public Interest Incorporated Foundation Yoshino Gypsum Art Promotion Foundation “Exhibition Grant for Young Japanese Painters”
2016 34th Ueno no Mori Museum Award Exhibition – Excellence Award
2015 26th Garyu Sakura Japanese Painting Grand Prix – Sakura Prize
Kamiyama Foundation Scholarship Student Achievement Exhibition – Excellence Award
2013 ALBION AWARDS 2013 – Gold Prize
13th Fukuchiyama City Satoh Taisei Prize – Special Selection, Itabashi Ward Mayor’s Award
Public Collections
Ueno no Mori Museum, Tokyo
Sato Sakura Art Museum, Tokyo
Nichinan Town Museum of Art, Tottori
Shanghai Yunian Art Museum, China
Concept
Characterized by a style that fuses Japanese painting techniques with unique sensibility, where preliminary sketches are created with highly transparent pigments, then thin Japanese paper is applied to the entire picture plane and colored with mineral pigments.
Taking gardens, nature reserves, and satoyama (semi-natural grasslands) as subjects, the artist expresses the “ambiguous boundaries” of nature that each person is conscious of through the haiku-like emotion and poetic quality inherent in painting.
Available Works
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