薩川 紗央
Visual Artist
Born in Shizuoka, Japan, 1987
B.A. Oil painting, Tama Art University, 2011
Based in Kanagawa
Painting
Installation of Perler beads
Embroidery
Contemporary Art
Sao Satsugawa's work is centered on painting, but in recent years she has broadened her range of expression to include embroidery, installations of perler beads, and three-dimensional works.
In recent years, she has also launched Shimizu Ekimae Art Festival, expanding beyond her work as an artist to curate exhibitions herself.
She continues to work on the theme of "human emotions as seen through her own experience," expressing life-sized emotions that arise from her real life as a mother of two, using handicrafts as materials reminiscent of home and everyday life.
She expands her somewhat naïve point of view, which is unique to women, to universal issues such as the existence of others and the boundaries between oneself and others.
Statement
日常生活の中で、私たちは数多くの感情を捨て去っている。その中には取るに足らない些細な呪いや、胸に秘めていた強い祈りもある。
私の作品が、まだ捨てきれない感情を心に飼う人々に届くことを願っている。
There are a great number of emotions that we discard in the daily activities of life. Among them are insignificant, trivial curses and strong prayers that we quietly keep hidden. I hope that my works will reach those who have feelings in their hearts that they have not yet discarded.
EXHIBITIONS
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018
Starry-eyed, Gallery NIW, Tokyo
スパイラルダウン, Felkehr Museum, Shizuoka
2012
わたしの酸, Granship, Shizuoka
Selected group Exhibitions
2025
第二回清水駅前芸術祭, Shizuoka
2023
清水駅前芸術祭, Shizuoka
2022
A.I.S -featured art&illustration-, ISETAN, Shizuoka
Prism, Gallery Art Point, Ginza, Tokyo
2021
BEYOND, Gallery Art Point, Ginza, Tokyo
2020
Reflections, Gallery Art Point, Ginza, Tokyo
2019
6rooms, Marinart, Shizuoka
The World Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum,Tokyo
ART MOVE, Osaka
Oyabe Modern Art Exhibition, Art house Oyabe, Toyama
2017
Atelier of Begining, CCC, Shizuoka
2016
にわか雨, Granship, Shizuoka
Produce
2025
第二回清水駅前芸術祭, Shizuoka
2024
旧カトリック清水教会解体資材展,
松坂屋静岡店, Shizuoka
旧カトリック清水教会解体現場見学会,
Okamachi, Shizuoka
2023
清水駅前芸術祭, Shizuoka
Awards
2019
selected
ART MOVE competition
Oyabe Modern Art Exhibition
The World Art Exhibition
2012
encouragement prize,Granship Art competition
2010
Honorable award, Painting Nature in Japan Exhibition