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Kenji Sakai

Kenji Sakai 

 

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Kenji Sakai

1996 Born in Kyoto
2019 BFA, Kyoto Seika University, Printmaking Course
2022 MFA, Musashino Art University in Printmaking course

Exhibition history

【Solo exhibition】
2024
“Like seeing this world for the first time” nomadic gallery, OIL by Mijutsu Techo, AUTO VISION, Tokyo
2023
“Clair That Fell From the Sky” HIRO OKAMOTO GALLERY, Tokyo

Concept

Kenji Sakai works across various media, including oil painting, printmaking/silkscreen, and sculpture. Drawing inspiration from personal experiences, his work examines the relationship between the individual and the collective in modern society, as well as the inorganic structures of urban environments. Through a perspective that surveys concepts such as time, space, and invisible dimensions, his art challenges the viewer’s perceptions.

In recent years, Sakai has been creating works that suggest the distortions and systemic breakdowns hidden behind the beauty of modern, developed societies. Depicting fragments and structures of futuristic cities meticulously controlled by artificial systems, as well as works reminiscent of a world’s end, his art employs minimal elements such as points, lines, and planes. By incorporating geometric shapes that have endured through the ages, he conveys a vision of “world balance” while simultaneously hinting at its precariousness.

Instagram：https://www.instagram.com/kenjisakai_87

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Arashi Tanaka

Arashi Tanaka 

 

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Arashi Tanaka

2000 Born in Fukuoka
2022 BFA, Tama Art University
2024 MFA, the Fine Art program at the University of the Arts London

Exhibition history

【Solo exhibition】
2024
「FROZEN BREATH」Nomadic Gallery (Tokyo)

【Group exhibition】
2024
“Different Kyomachibori Art Fair 2024” at Chignitta (Osaka, Japan)
“RA Summer Exhibition 2024” at the Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK)
“BBA” at BBA Gallery (Berlin, Germany)
Ogilvy London Office (London, UK)
“Best Asian Artist Award Prize” at Holy Art Gallery (London, UK)

Awards

2024
“Different Kyomachibori Art Fair 2024”: Winner of the Jury Awards — Eric Zhu Prize, Kentaro Noutomi Prize, and Hiroaki Shono Prize at Chignitta (Osaka, Japan)
“RA Summer Exhibition 2024”: Recipient of the British Institution Fund Award at the Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK)

Publish

2024
FOA Volume20 (New York)
Al-Tiba9 Art Magazine ISSUE15 (Barcelona)

Concept

Our vitality, existing faintly like fleeting snow. The ceaselessly beating pulse. Places of memory. Using the natural phenomenon of crystallization, where time transforms and solidifies, I encapsulate information—those I wish never to lose—like ice, freezing time itself. Through recorded heartbeats, the sound waves of rain and wind, the crystals change shape, their brilliance making the invisible visible.

Instagram：www.instagram.com/arashi_tanaka_/

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Maoka Ueda

Maoka Ueda

 

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Maoka Ueda

Maoka Ueda was born in 1996 in Hyogo. She studied Art & Design in London for five years in the Foundation course at Central Saint Martins and in the BA(Hons) Graphic Design Communication at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, England.

Exhibition history

【Solo exhibition】
2022
「Wonky Tunes」Gallery Crane
2023
「The Catcher in the Mirage」MA5 Gallery
2024
「Folie à deux」 Whitestone Gallery Taipei
「MIND GARDEN」GALLERY ROOM A (ArtSticker)

【Group exhibition】
2022
Mago Gallery Award The Group Show, Japan
Geisai #21 hosted by Takashi Murakami, Japan
100 nin 10 (Winning prize by Yuta Okuda , and Art Powers Japan)
Shibuya Style vol.16 at Seibu Shibuya Art Gallery, Japan 2022 Dec WHAT CAFE EXHIBITION「Vol.23 Art is…」
2023
‘Chroma Distance’ at POLA Annex Museum , Japan
ONBEAT ART SHOW, Japan
2024
MITSUKOSHI ART Selection at Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi , Japan ArtSticker SELECTION at Daimaru Kobe, Japan
Nine Colors ⅩⅧ at Seibu Shibuya Art Gallery,  Japan
Nine Colors at Hankyu Umeda , Japan
TUTTI FRUTTI JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY ART IN BANGKOK at GALLERY CURU, Bangkok

【Art Fair】
2023
One Art Taipei (Taipei)
2024
One Art Taipei (Taipei)
Art021 (Hong Kong)

Other

2023
In charge of the main visual of NEW ENERGY TOKYO 2023

Concept

Ueda’s artwork blends a deep respect for nature, life, and the universe with mathematical concepts like the golden ratio, vortex structures, and fractals. These natural principles are woven into the piece to bring out the mystery and vitality of the cosmos, creating a visual experience that resonates both intellectually and emotionally. The artist takes inspiration from the organic shapes and spirals found in nature, abstracting them and using them in the design of characters and creatures. This is based on the idea of “self-similarity,” which is central to fractals, where small parts of a system resemble the whole. In her work, parts of one character are shared with others, symbolizing interconnectedness. As viewers mentally link these shared elements, new life forms emerge, ultimately forming a larger spiral structure that reflects the interconnectedness of everything. This mirrors the fractal nature of life, where patterns repeat at all scales, from tiny structures to the vastness of galaxies. Additionally, the artwork captures the beauty of chaotic and seemingly irregular forms found in nature, such as the swirling motion of a whirlpool or the branching of trees. While these forms may appear irregular, they follow underlying mathematical rules that create harmony and order. By incorporating these chaotic yet ordered shapes, the piece taps into the viewer’s subconscious, evoking symbols of life force, energy, and eros. The flowing curves and interconnected patterns suggest the fundamental processes of growth and connection, reflecting the same mathematical principles that govern both organic life and the universe. Ultimately, this work not only celebrates the natural world but also invites viewers to engage with the deeper mathematical laws that shape it. By blending the visual beauty of fractals, spirals, and the golden ratio with symbols of life and energy, it encourages a holistic view of the universe, where everything is interconnected and governed by the same principles of beauty and order.

Instagram：www.instagram.com/i_am_maokaxx/

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Lea Embeli

Lea Embeli

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Lea Embeli

1994 Born in Pančevo, Serbia.
2018 MFA, Department of Applied Painting, Faculty of Applied Arts, University of Belgrade
2021 Graduate School of Oil Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts
2023 Enrolled in a second Master’s program

Exhibition history

2017
“This changes everything”, Niš Art Foundation, Niš, Serbia
2018
“Festum, Student Cultural Center”, Belgrade, Serbia
2019
Solo Exhibition “Out of touch”, Ostavinska Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2020
“Private Values, Swiss Residence”, Belgrade, Serbia
“Autumn of Art Biennale”, Sombor, Serbia
Solo Exhibition “What do you think?”, X Vitamin Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2021
51st Art Salon, National Museum, Pančevo, Serbia
2023
“Wherever You Are, That’s Home”, JR Ueno Gallery, Tokyo
Future Exhibition, Nichido Gallery, Tokyo
Watowa Art Award, Watowa Gallery, Tokyo
2024
Shibuya Awards, Hillside Terrace Annex-A, Tokyo
“grid next”, biscuit gallery, Tokyo

Awards

2018
Aleksandar Tomašević Award
ULUPUDS Award in Applied Painting
2020
Vučićević Award
2024
Shibuya Awards, Yusaku Imamura Prize

Concept

My work is an exploration of the intricate relationship between the female body, artificial intelligence, and historical representation in art. Through the use of AI image-generating technology, I investigate how traditional depictions of women in classical paintings can be transformed and distorted beyond recognition, intentionally pushing the boundaries of recognition.

The resulting images are deliberately unsophisticated and unsettling, challenging conventional notions of beauty and identity. This method allows me to confront the contingent symbolism and inherent biases embedded in historical artistic representations of women, as well as in AI technology itself. Each distorted figure becomes a cipher, inviting viewers to question the norms and expectations associated with the female form from art history to the present day.

https://www.instagram.com/lea_embeli/

 

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Hal Osawa

Hal Osawa

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Hal Osawa

1997　Born in Tokyo, Japan
2020   BFA, Tama Art University,  Oil Painting
2022　MFA, Kyoto University of the Arts

Exhibitions

【Solo】

2022
“ERROR” MEDEL GALLERY SHU, Tokyo
“MtK+ vol.10 Hal Osawa” MtK contemporary Art, Kyoto

【Group】

2021
“In between” SkiiMa Gallery
“SHIBUYA STYLE vol.15” Seibu Shibuya
2022
“Hajimareri” ARTDYNE
KUA ANNUAL 2022 “in Cm¦ Ghost、Maze、Multiverse” Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
“Two-Dimentional school exhibition” Daikanyama Hillside Forum
2023
Hal Osawa, Yurina Okada, and Erika Naka “Rhapsodic Spectrum” biscuit gallery
2024
“RE：FACTORY_2” WALL_alternative, Tokyo
biscuit gallery 3rd anniversary exhibition “grid3” biscuit gallery

【Art Fair】

2023
ARTISTS’FAIR KYOTO2023
ART FAIR TOKYO 2023 (biscuit gallery)
2024
ART OSAKA 2024 – Solo exhibition

Concept

Hal Osawa creates artworks that embody and visualize the ambiguity of value by reproducing digital copies in an analog format. Her major series are “onomatopoeia” series and “Disappearance and Induction” series.

https://www.instagram.com/oswhr/

 

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Fu Ning

Fu Ning

 

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Fu Ning

2017　B.F.A., Department of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei
2023　M.F.A. Program, Department of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei

Her works take the forms of image-making that forge images into materials. Those are images neither produced by her nor of her living documentation that she focuses on/ paints. They did not witness a capital History, nor are they noteworthy. They are pictures we’ve once come across. For her, this working process reflects the contemporary experience where our living life is constantly imaged, even archived. Once uploaded to social media, these images constitute us on the internet. For what it shapes has become a new reality, everything is real, and the presence of matter no longer affects priority.

Exhibition history

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023　Red Eyes when I miss you., hirohiro art space, Taipei
2023　Crying is due to the glitch of messages that dazzle the eyes, Double Square gallery,Taipei
2022　Painter Tom who peeps on glitch, FreeS Art Space, Taipei
2022　 Stories, LIN art projects, Taipei
2018　Disabled and Bad trip, Waley Art, Taipei

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selected)
2023　The 9th Joint Exhibition of Artists from Eight Cities in Northern Taiwan”,Northern Taiwan, Taiwan
2023　Signal Z,moca,Taipei, Taiwan
2023　Making kin with better life,he&she space,Taipei, Taiwan
2023　 ONE ART Taipei, Hotel Metropolitan Premier Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2023 　Art Tainan, Silks Place Tainan, Tainan, Taiwan
2023　Cheers! , LIN art projects, Taipei
2023　 ArtFuture, Grand Hyatt Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 　An Unnatural place III : The Doll in the Garden, SLY art space, Taipei
2022 　CTBC Contemporary Painting Award, KdMoFA, Taipe
2022　 Art Taichung, The Lin Hotel, Taichung, Taiwani
2022　ONE ART Taipei,arthink Co., Ltd., Taipei

AWARD

2023　2024 Next art Tainan
2022　 S-An aesthetics award
2021　CTBC Contemporary Painting Award, Finalist, Taipei
2012　The 9th Hongmei New Talent Award, Visual Creation, Finalist, Hsinchu
2021　2021 Northern Art Contemporary Creation Award, Finalist, Taipei
2021　Long Yen Foundation : The 15th Art scholarship, Taipei
2019　 Long Yen Foundation : The 13th Art scholarship, Taipe
2015 　The First Prize of Glare Project, Taipei

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Saku Morikawa

Saku Morikawa

 

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Saku Morikawa

2001   Born in Tokyo, Japan
2023 – Current   BFA in Graphic Design, Tama Art University

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
2023   
“Yagi wo kakaeru otoko” Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation Exhibition Showcase, Ueno Campus, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions
2023
“FACE2023” SOMPO Museum of Art, Tokyo
“Iime Fukurame in TOKYO 2023” Daimaru Tokyo, Tokyo
Intercollege Exhibition, GINZA YOKYO HALL, Tokyo
“ARTISTNEWGATE Finalist Exhibition” Abeno Harakas, Osaka
“ACT Art Award 2023 Exhibition” Art Complex Center, Tokyo, Japan
The 41st Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
“GEISAI#22”, Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo
“Katei/Konseki” MEDEL GALLERU SHU, Tokyo
ACT Art Grand Prize Exhibition —  Grand Prize Exhibition “Ei” Art Complex Center, Tokyo
D-art, ART2023 Nagoya, Matsuzakaya Nagoya, Nagoya
The Drifting Art Classroom Midterm Exhibition 2023 “Hare wo muda ni shita” Bigakko Studio, Tokyo
FACE2023 Small Works by Selected Artists, REIJINSHA GALLERY, Tokyo
“biscuit gallery Christmas exhibition” biscuit gallery karuizawa, Karuizawa
“True Colors” ARTDYNE, Tokyo

2022
Intercollege Small Works Exhibition, 3331 Arts Chiyoda 104 Gallery, Tokyo
“3331ART FAIR 2022” 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
“∴” Tama Art University Hachioji Campus, Tokyo
“changting gallery Exhibition 2022” changting gallery, Tokyo

2021
“memento mori” Shinjuku Ganka Art Gallery, Tokyo
Liquitex the challenge 2021, Mitaka City Arts Center, Tokyo

Art Fairs

2023
“OIL ART MARKET 2023” nap palm, Tokyo, Japan
“MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2023 Time to Change” B&C HALL, Tokyo, Japan

Awards

2023
FACE2023 — Selected
“Iime Fukurame in TOKYO 2023” Art Factory Prize — Awarded by YOD gallery
The 41st Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition —Selected
ACT Art Award 2023 — Merit Award
2022
Changting gallery Exhibition 2022 — Selected
2021
Liquitex the challenge 2021, Liquixtex — University Award Category

Concept

Focusing on oil painting and ceramics, he has recently been thinking and working on the cohabitation of conflicting ideas; situations and mentalities where opposing elements such as good and evil, beauty and ugliness coexist. Morisaku depicts inner contradictions and harmony through pictorial motifs.
While connecting motifs with art historical elements, Morisaku contrasts them with their own inner world and explores new perspectives of reality.

https://www.instagram.com/saku_morikawa/

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Atsuki Fujimoto

 

Atsuki Fujimoto

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Atsuki Fujimoto

1997　Born in Mie, Japan
2021　MFA, Kyoto University of the Arts, Graduate School of Art and Design Studies, Art Major, Fine and Applied Arts Field, Oil Painting

Statement

By depicting the rustling of the forest, the wind blowing through it, and the soft sunlight that gently envelops the flowers and plants, and the feel and atmosphere of the air, he attempts to create a landscape in the exhibition space.
Each time, he selects and cares for the texture and materiality of the painting so that the feel and atmosphere of the landscape, and the unique qualities and scenes of the motifs complement each other.
By layering soft, fine-grained fabric or scraping it away, the aspects of the flowers and air that emerge create a pictorial space with physical perspective, and give rise to the presence of flowers and the light and air that surrounds them.

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
2024　“Garden and Vase”, JBIG meets Art gallery, Tokyo
　　　 “Room with Flowers”, Kyoto Takashimaya Tsutaya Bookstore 6F, Kyoto
2023　“Lakeside Castle”, ART GALLERY UMEDA, Osaka
2022　“The boundary between paintings and leaves, and between trees and forests”, ARTDYNE, Tokyo
　　　 “Sounds of the forest, Wind passing”, gallery trax, Yamanashi
　　　 “FLOWER GARDEN”, CANDYBAR Gallery, Kyoto
　　　 “In the soft afternoon sun”, AIR Kamo Nasu, Kyoto
2021　“MtK ＋ Vol.3”, MtK Contemporary Art .S, Kyoto
　　　 “Rose garden”, FUGA Dining, Tokyo
　　　 “Drink a cup of tea on the forest terrace”, Ace Hotel Kyoto 1F Lobby Gallery, Kyoto

Group Exhibitions
2023　“HAMAMATSU SESSIONS vol.4 IN & OUT of PICTURES -Enjoyable Plane- Atsuki Fujimoto and Yurina Okada Duo Exhibition”, Hirano Art Gallery, Shizuoka
2022　“A painting surface -matière that narrates-”, Mitsukoshi Main Store Art Gallery, Tokyo
　　　 “Alley” Atsuki Fujimoto×Kenji Gomi, emmy art＋, Tokyo
　　　 “Dialogue 2 : Walking Path” Atsuki Fujimoto×Gabriel Hartley, Seishodo Yamashita Annex, Kyoto
　　 　“exhibition from shu”, biscuit gallery, Tokyo
2021　“Kyoto Perspective”, ANB Tokyo, Tokyo
　　　 “ARTISTS’ FAIR KYOTO 2021”, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto
2020　“Cross Frontier Vol.1”, Wacoal Study Hall Kyoto, Kyoto
　　　

Awards

2021　“Idemitsu Art Award 2021”, Naoko Sumi Jury Award
　　　 “NONIO ART WAVE AWARD 2021”, Eriko Kimura Award
　　　 “ARTISTS’ FAIR KYOTO 2021 Akatsuki ART AWARD”, Excellence Award

https://www.instagram.com/atsuki_fujimoto/

 

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Pop_Osushi

Pop_Osushi

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Pop_Osushi

2001　Born in Hokkaido
2022 – Current　BFA in Oil Painting, Musashino Art University

Selected Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions
2021
“Bobonnmonnchechenntsuenn” Sapporo Chikamichi (Chikaho),   Sapporo

Concept

“‘Good mood and trace amounts of insanity’  

No matter what happens,
Somewhere everyone wants to be in good spirits.

I’m serious!
With the madness that comes out of desire!”

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https://www.instagram.com/pop_osushi/
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https://www.youtube.com/@pop_osushi

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emumoto

emumoto

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emumoto

2003   Born in Fukuoka

Selected Exhibitions

2023
“LongPress, Flick, PinchDown ,Swipe” Gallery10[TOH], Tokyo
“SHIBUYA STYLE Vo.17” Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo

2022
“SHIBUYA STYLE Vo.16” Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo

Concept

Taking the mental changes caused by destruction as their starting point, emumoto focuses on the possibility of “invisibility” created by applying noise to the information on the screen, and pursues the beauty of this nature through their work.

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https://www.instagram.com/em_moto_p/