BIOGRAPHY
I was born in Tokyo in 1999. I studied oil painting at Tokyo University of the Arts, and am researching pigments in the graduate school’s the Oil Painting Techniques and Materials Laboratory. Picking up favorite stones in the forests, mountains, or on the roadside, I grind them to make pigments. And I find something like transparent glass attached to it. Then imagining that there may be dinosaur bones in it, or shell fossils, etc., and I paint while thinking that the pigment I am using may be a part of a creature from the past.
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Education
2025 Currently attending Tokyo University of the Arts, graduate school of fine arts, master’s
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Earth Sound and Color Distance, Contemporary Art aaploit, Tokyo, Japan
2021 In the sky In the water In the house, Soyoya Edobata, Tokyo, Japan
Joint Exhibitions
2025 Nature Speaks, Rossocinabro Gallery, Rome, Italy
2025 IMPERFECT RETURN, m.a.d.s. art gallery, Milan, Italy
2024 All Japan Artists’ Works Conservation Association Author’s Exhibition,
Mito Keisei Department Store, Ibaraki, Japan
2023 SHORT SHORT, Yuga Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2022, 16th Geidai Artplaza Awards, Geidai Artplaza, Tokyo, Japan
2022 οὐ , 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
2022 Ukraine Emergency Fundraising Exhibition, Gallery Q, Tokyo, Japan
2021 15th Geidai Artplaza Awards, Geidai Artplaza, Tokyo, Japan
2021 ART POINT SelectionV, Gallery Art Point, Tokyo, Japan
2021 14th Geidai Artplaza Awards, Geidai Artplaza, Tokyo, Japan
2020 art.0 -Birth of the art and the city-, NTT Hibiya Bldg., Tokyo, Japan
2020 Sound Painting Exhibition, Art Gallery Café Chachaka, Chiba, Japan
2019 art.0 -Birth of the art and the city-, Otemachi Art Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan
Activities
2020 Guest Performance as a live painter at Padma Fes, Chiba, Japan
2020 Performed as a member of BorderlessArtists in Geidai Arts in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan
2019-2020 Participation in the Ueno Toilet Museum project by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Tokyo University of the Arts
Award
2020/2021/2022 Won an award at the 14th, 15th, 16th Geidai Artplaza
Collections
2020 Charm Care Corporation
STATEMENT
I primarily use oil paints that I mix with natural materials such as stone, iron, and copper to explore unique colors and expressions. When painting, however, these materials may or may not adhere to the oil paint when mixed together, while their colours change and erode over time. It feels as if the old creatures such as animals and micro-organisms fossilised in the materials are coming back to life, and the painting appears to be alive.
