TAKAHIRO SANDA 三田尚弘
Born in 1980 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Lives and works in Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Using the shared consciousness characteristic of post-modern society as a theme, Sanda produces paintings with backdrops that appear faded in color, as if painted long ago. To bring out collective thoughts and feelings in a natural way, he elects to deify them in the form of anamorphic animals. Believing that to deify is to beautify, and that to beautify is to embody in the female form, his graceful shapes evoke a harmonious natural cycle of birth, death, and rebirth that repeats without end. These colors and unique forms are both reflections of ancient Japanese culture and a vessel for hidden messages directed at people living in contemporary times.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Solo Exhibition (Matsuzakaya, Aichi and Tokyo)
2014
Solo Exhibition (Gallery Kogure, Tokyo)
2011
Solo Exhibition (Matsuzakaya, Aichi and Tokyo)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Reimagined: Contemporary Artists Take on The Tale of Genji (SEIZAN Gallery, New York)
2014
The Spiral man (LOWER AKIHABARA, Tokyo)
Shin Nihonga Kenkyu kai (Matsuzakaya, Aichi, continued in 2016)
2012
The first Reki no kai: Nihonga-ten (Matsuzakaya, Tokyo, Aichi, continued every year afterward)
The Spring man (LOWER AKIHABARA, Tokyo)
2011
Challenging the National Treasure, Illustrated Tale of Genji Scrolls: presenting a reproduction made by the Tokyo University of the Arts (The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, The Tokugawa Art Museum, Aichi)
2011
Mitsukoshi x Geidai: Natsuno Geijutsusai-Jidai wo Ninau Wakate Sakka Sakuhin-ten (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo)
Yume no kai (Ikebukuro Seibu, Tokyo, continued until 2014)
Day Dream (LOWER AKIHABARA, Tokyo)
2010
The Ballon Man (LOWER AKIHABARA, Tokyo)
2009
Art Fair Tokyo (Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo)
The Lunar Man (LOWER AKIHABARA, Tokyo)
Young Art Taipei 2009 (Gallery Kogure Booth, Taipei)
2006
Three person exhibition (Gallery MIYASAKA, Tokyo)
AWARDS
2012
Nomura award for Graduate Thesis Work, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Nihonga (Tokyo)
EXHIBITIONS
Reimagined: Contemporary Artists Take on The Tale of Genji