Reiru Ogasawara
(https://www.instagram.com/smallrailway27/)

Born in 2005 in Aomori City, Aomori Prefecture, Japan.
Currently enrolled in the Oil Painting Course, Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Arts, at Tohoku University of Art and Design, and based in Yamagata.
Ogasawara has loved drawing since childhood. Fascinated by automobiles, dinosaurs, tokusatsu (special effects), music, and many other subjects, he began creating manga after his father introduced him to Dragon Ball during elementary school, discovering the joy of storytelling through drawing. Deeply influenced by manga and cinema, he encountered oil painting while in high school and later enrolled at Tohoku University of Art and Design. After exploring a wide range of artistic approaches, he developed his current practice. His hobbies include traveling, visiting hot springs, photography, and driving.

Takuto Kadokura × PROLETA RE ART
(https://www.instagram.com/22nd_century_jedi/)(https://www.instagram.com/proletareart/?hl=ja)

Born in Saitama Prefecture, Takuto Kadokura, also known as 22nd Century Jedi, graduated from the Fashion Design Program in the Department of Spatial Design at Musashino Art University. While working as a pattern maker for Comme des Garçons, he began creating necklaces inspired by his beloved anime series Pretty Cure, presenting them on social media under the name 22nd Century Jedi, where they quickly gained widespread attention.
After establishing his independent practice, Kadokura began exhibiting paintings under his own name. Using flowers as his primary motif, he explores themes of masculinity, fashion, and ornamentation. His paintings depict uniquely imagined plants and human figures across the entire canvas through sophisticated compositions and vibrant color combinations, captivating viewers with their hypnotic visual energy. Among his best-known projects is the Bulletin Board Drawing Series, in which he exhibited drawings on the bulletin board outside his home.
For this exhibition, Kadokura collaborates with PROT, the designer of PROLETA RE ART, a fashion label dedicated to restoring and reconstructing vintage garments and worn textiles into one-of-a-kind contemporary pieces.

Nae Sasaki
(https://www.instagram.com/sasakinae/?hl=ja)

Born in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.
After graduating from art school, Sasaki worked for more than a decade as a lacquer artisan specializing in the conservation and restoration of cultural properties. In 2019, she left the restoration field to devote herself fully to her artistic practice.
Combining her longstanding practice of wood carving with extensive experience in restoring traditional temple and shrine architecture and relacquering historic objects, she employs traditional Japanese techniques to reinterpret classical motifs from both Eastern and Western cultures through a contemporary perspective.

Kousai Shiraishi
(https://www.instagram.com/shiraishi_hyojie/?hl=ja)

Born in 1998 in Busan, South Korea.
Shiraishi spent his early childhood in Korea before moving to Nagano, Japan, where he grew up. He is currently based in Kyoto.

2022 — B.F.A. in Oil Painting, Department of Fine Arts and Crafts, Kyoto University of the Arts
2024 — M.F.A. in Oil Painting, Graduate School of Kyoto University of the Arts

When he left Korea in the fourth grade and settled in Nagano, memories of his birthplace would unexpectedly resurface as he adjusted to his new surroundings. At such moments, he would find himself gazing absentmindedly at the mountains or following birds flying across the distant sky.
Painting, for Shiraishi, is a continuous process of making countless choices—selecting motifs, light, color, brush size, layers of paint, and brushstrokes. He feels that these decisions arise from the same quiet, unfocused state of contemplation experienced while staring into the distance. The sensations shaped by movement, migration, and the passage of time become increasingly ambiguous, eventually merging with his present life on the canvas, where the painting gradually reveals itself.

Hinako Suda
(https://www.instagram.com/dochirademoiiyo/?hl=ja)

Born in 1998.
Graduated from the Oil Painting Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, in 2023. She is currently based in Tokyo.
Suda primarily creates paintings using spray paint, cotton fabric, discarded materials, and found manufactured objects. These materials function not only as physical supports for the act of painting but also as essential components that shape the very structure of the work.
The human figures that appear in her paintings are rendered as anonymous bodies, stripped of the signs that define individual identity. Her interest lies not in portraiture, but in exploring the nature of the body itself as a mode of existence.
Recent solo exhibitions include Body and Composition (Art or Bifun or Shirachu, 2025) and The Beard of Space (TAKU SOMETANI GALLERY, 2025).

Sayaka Toda
(https://www.instagram.com/sayakatoda_artwork/?hl=ja)

Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1988.
Received an M.F.A. in Oil Painting from Joshibi University of Art and Design in 2012.
Beginning with questions that arise from intimate personal relationships, Toda creates paintings, photographs, and video works that explore individual memory and history alongside broader issues of gender and society.
In 2024, she held a solo exhibition at Tokyo Arts and Space. In 2025, she presented another solo exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art under the theme of War and Art. She currently lives and works between Tokyo and Saitama.

Kano Nakamura
(https://www.instagram.com/kn_pa21/?hl=ja)

Born in Tokyo in 1999.
Received an M.F.A. in Oil Painting from Kyoto City University of Arts in 2025.
Recent exhibitions include the solo exhibition A Place Without a Name (BnA Alter Museum, Room 703, Kyoto, 2025), the solo exhibition Space and Flies (AWASE Gallery, Tokyo, 2025), an exhibition at Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyoto Sanjo Premier (Kyoto, 2025), and the group exhibition EAST EAST TOKYO 2025 (Museum of Science, Tokyo, 2025).
Working primarily with a tablet, Nakamura creates paintings and installations that move fluidly between digital and physical spaces. Her imagery often takes on ambiguous forms that resemble both plants and spacecraft. By embracing ambiguity and crossing boundaries, her practice resists fixed categories while searching for new ways of seeing and existing.。

Maya Nukumizu
(https://www.instagram.com/maya_nukumizu/?hl=ja)

Born in Kyoto Prefecture.
Since relocating to Tokyo in 2012, Nukumizu has based her practice there. She completed her graduate studies in Artistic Expression at Kyoto University of the Arts and studied under the renowned artist Keiichi Tanaami during her university years.
Drawing on the manga culture that profoundly influenced her from childhood, she treats every being in the world as a protagonist through the visual language of manga. Her work embraces the glitches, distortions, and unexpected errors that emerge within today’s vast sea of information, presenting them as positive and generative possibilities.
Alongside exhibiting internationally, she has produced album artwork for artists including Macaroni Empitsu and Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku, expanding her practice across both contemporary art and popular culture.

Kazuma Yamamoto
(https://www.instagram.com/kazumayamamoto25/?hl=ja)

Born in Tokyo in 1998.

2023 — B.F.A. in Oil Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts
2026 — M.F.A. in Oil Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts

Yamamoto gathers images from everyday life, including landscapes, plants, insects, fragments of urban scenery, photographs, and book illustrations, collecting them as physical objects, photographs, or drawings. These accumulated fragments transcend time, context, and dimension, bringing together elements that would otherwise never intersect.
Through the unexpected relationships that emerge from these encounters and the new images they generate, Yamamoto explores the ever-expanding possibilities of painting.

Monami Yabe
(https://www.instagram.com/monami__y/?hl=ja)

Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 2000.
Working primarily in wood sculpture, Yabe explores the intersections of multiple temporalities, memory, bodily experience, and place. Through the body as it moves across different moments in time, she investigates layers of temporal experience, translating them into sculptural form through the materiality of wood.
She completed her M.F.A. in Sculpture at Musashino Art University. Recent exhibitions include the Gunma Biennale for Young Artists 2025, Kanazawa Sculpture Festival 2025, and ARTISTS’ FAIR KYOTO 2026.