biscuit gallery Sawako Nasu
Profile
Born in Tokyo in 1996
Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting, Oil Painting Major in 2021
Completed Master’s Program, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Oil Painting First Research Studio, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2023
Recipient of the Dōgaku O-shi Memorial Scholarship
Major Exhibition History
【Solo Exhibitions】
2025
「ライナスの布」KEN NAKAHASHI
2024
「Vestige」NISO, London
2023
「Sunny, Rainy,」biscuit gallery, Tokyo
2022
「slipped moonlight」Ginza Tsutaya Books, Tokyo
「灯台へ」myheirloom, Tokyo
【Group Exhibitions】
2025
「gyroid resonance」Spiral Garden, Tokyo
Two-Person Exhibition by Akiko Horio and Sawako Nasu「不滅」biscuit gallery, Tokyo
「doors」biscuit gallery, Tokyo
biscuit gallery × NISO (London) Collaboration Exhibition「bridge」biscuit gallery (Tokyo)
2024
biscuit gallery 3rd Anniversary Exhibition「grid3」biscuit gallery, Tokyo
「Selection」KEN NAKAHASHI, Tokyo
「Inaugural Group Exhibition」NISO, London
「Intersection 2」Ginza Tsutaya Books GINZA ATRIUM, Tokyo
2023
biscuit gallery 2nd Anniversary Exhibition「grid2」biscuit gallery, Tokyo
Two-Person Exhibition「GENE – Genes Beyond Generations – Akira Nakajima × Sawako Nasu」Gallery Hana, Tokyo
「Draw Lines and Shapes on My Map」Taka Ishii Gallery, Maebashi
2022
Spiral Xmas Market 2022〜「A bright tomorrow, a sparkling future」 Omotesando Spiral Spiral Garden
「CROSSROADS」 WHAT CAFE, Tokyo
biscuit gallery First Anniversary Exhibition「grid」biscuit gallery, Tokyo
Two-Person Exhibition by Sawako Nasu and Yotaro Nunoda「Final Observer, ?」biscuit gallery, Tokyo
2021
Two-Person Exhibition by Renichiro Tada and Sawako Nasu「b⇔d」biscuit gallery, Tokyo
【Art Fairs】
ART OSAKA 2025
ART FAIR TOKYO 2025
ART FAIR TOKYO 2024
ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 2023
Kiaf Seoul 2023
ART FAIR TOKYO 2023
【Award】
FORBES JAPAN 30 UNDER 30 2025
Concept
Sawako Nasu uses the language of painting to talk about distance, connection, and relationships. When reflecting on her own work, Nasu says, “How can I come in touch with paintings of the past?” Underlying Nasu’s work is a sense of the absolute, unbridgeable distance that lies between the classical and modernist paintings she admires, as well as that which lies between their times and herself today. It is this sense of distance that gives her art its thorough vision.
Nasu’s approach to the possibilities of painting, anchored in contrasting the era of classical painting with the era to which she belongs to as a contemporary artist, goes beyond the scope of her personal interests and reflects a current awareness of what is possible at the edge of art history, a site of constant renewal.