SAKI SONODA
🎨 Painting
🐾 Interactive Art
🗽 Sculpture/Three-dimensional Art
She was born in Japan and now lives in Brooklyn. She has had a passion for art since she was very young. After 12 years of specialized art training at the Joshibi University of Art and Design and its affiliated schools, including her MFA, she has continued to explore a wide variety of media and techniques, including painting, printing and mixed media.
Her current focus is on the creation of two types of projects. One is a series of paintings that depict the vibrant and diverse community of performers who dance in the nightclubs of Brooklyn. She is fascinated by the backstage world of these performers and the ways in which their bodies and movements are reflections of their unique identities and experiences. Through her art, she seeks to illuminate these performers’ hidden worlds, inviting viewers to consider the beauty and power of the human form in all its diversity.
The second project is an interactive installation experiment, primarily placed at community gatherings, which aims to explore and objectify human emotions through the use of various materials and technologies. It invites the community to reflect on their relationships and how they perceive them.
As an artist, her goal is to create thought-provoking, authentic and unique work. She hopes to inspire others to see the world in a new light and to consider the beauty and complexity of the human experience.
- 2008 Group Exhibition (Kanagawa, Japan)
- 2008 Group Exhibition “Art Exhibition Fostered by Citizens” (Kanagawa, Japan)
- 2008 Group Exhibition “Yokohama Rose Exhibition 2008: 13 new female artists” (Kanagawa, Japan)
- 2008 Group Exhibition (Kanagawa, Japan)
- 2009 Recipient of the Fumiko Omura Foundation Joshibi Milano Award in 2009 for a study abroad program in Italy
- 2009 Group Exhibition “visual exhibition” (Kanagawa, Japan)
- 2009 Group Exhibition (Kanagawa, Japan)
- 2009 Group Exhibition “Yokohama’s future community” (Kanagawa, Japan)
- 2009 Participated in the National University Print Exhibition at Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts (Tokyo, Japan)
- 2010 Graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design, having a work acquired by the university’s collection
- 2011 Group Exhibition in gsgp Joshibi university art center (Kanagawa, Japan)
- 2011 Group Exhibition (Tokyo, Japan)
- 2011 Group Exhibition “Contemporary Japanese Artists Exhibition” in Ningbo Museum of Art (Zhejiang, China)
- 2012 Group Exhibition (Tokyo, Japan)
- 2012 Group Exhibition (Tokyo, Japan)
- 2012 Master of Fine Arts (Printmaking Major), JOSHIBI UNIBERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN
- 2015 Burning Man Art Grant for the Carnival of Mirrors Midway
- 2017 POrtal Burn Art Grant
- 2018 Kostume Kult Frontage at Burning Man
- 2019 Kostume Kult Frontage at Burning Man
- 2021 POrtal Burn Art Grant
- 2022 Transformus Art Grant
- 2022 NECTR Art Grant
- 2022 Works exhibited at City of Gods
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