ARTIST

SHOTARO SANADA

Painter, born in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo, Japan in 2000, graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2024, and is currently enrolled in the Master's Program in Advanced Expression Informatics at the University of Tokyo (Master of Information Science).
He is the 8th scholarship creator of the Kuma Foundation. His large-scale abstract paintings based on the theme of "New Landscape" have attracted attention since he was a student at Tokyo University of the Arts, and he has received numerous awards including Art Olympia 2022, the Geidai Art Plaza Award, and the Tokyo University of the Arts Art Festival Excellence Award, In 2023, he was selected as the first artist of the "Google Japan x Generation Z Artists" and held a live painting session at the "AI EXPO 2023" in Makuhari Messe.
In the same year, he was commissioned by East Japan Railway Company to create a large 10-meter painting to be permanently installed in JR Nagano Station. In 2024, after entering the graduate school of the University of Tokyo, he held solo exhibitions at Shin-Kwang Mitsukoshi in Taiwan and GINZA SIX Ginza Tsutaya, and created permanent works throughout Japan, including a large mural painting for a restaurant in JR Ueno Station and painting on a permanent street piano in Ryuo, Nagano, as well as working for racing driver Gatsunoshin Ota and Japan's ski cross champion Rin Nakanishi.
He has also designed the helmets of racing driver Tatsunoshin Ota and Japan's national ski cross champion Rin Nakanishi, among others. Major solo exhibitions include "Process Landscape" (2024/Ginza Tsutaya), "Solo Exhibition" (2024/Shin Kwang Mitsukoshi, Taiwan), "OVER" (2024/STREET DREAMS STUDIOUS TOKYO),"ACROSS" (2023/Bumpodo Gallery), etc.