Ryoko Kumakura was born in 1991, in Tokyo and currently lives and works in Tokyo. Kumakura graduated from Tama Art University with a major in oil painting in 2014. She creates paintings based on the images that people have created throughout history. She is interested in the history of trial and error that led to the construction of people's worldview, and focuses on themes such as unconscious bias, what lies outside of cognition, and what the visible world is today. By crafting her own motifs and then going through the process of painting, she incorporates her own biases towards the original image, as well as the hand habits and distortions that occur during the manual process.
Major exhibitions include "coniunctio," a solo exhibition at The Imperial Hotel Plaza MEDEL GALLERY SHU, Tokyo (2019), "Pseudomer," a solo exhibition at RED AND BLUE GALLERY, Tokyo (2018), and "DI-VISION/0," a two-person exhibition by Ryoko Kumakura and Tenyo Nagai at TAV GALLERY, Tokyo (2018). Kumakura was selected for the 2019 Gunma Biennale for Young Artists.