Nohana Sayama

Nohana Sayama (b.2003, Osaka) is a Japanese artist based in London, a graduate of Camberwell College of Arts, Fine Art: Painting. During her time at Camberwell, she developed her practice in watercolour. Raised in Singapore, India and Japan, she paints to journal her past, to record her existence, to have nameless characters observe her in silence. With the unconventional use of Gansai watercolour, she attempts to express her incomplete social-cultural identity.
She has won the Alexander Graham Munro Travel Award and the W Gordon Smith & Mrs Jay Gordon Smith Award at the RSW 145th Annual Exhibition 2026, as well as the Watercolour award at the CASS Art Prize 2025.
She has also exhibited widely, including at World Art Dubai, the Affordable Art Fair, the London Design Festival, Art Jakarta Papers, the Other Art Fair, Royal Scottish Academy,
Mall Galleries, Leeds City Museum and more. This year, she plans to join the Turps Spring Intensive course, the Palazzo Monti residency, and start her master’s course in Painting at the Royal College of Arts.

Expected: Royal College of Art, Painting MA (09/26-06/27)
University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Arts, Fine Art: Painting (BA) 2025

Key Shows

2026:
Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong | Art Weme Gallery, Hong Kong
“A Leeds Songbook” | Leeds City Museum, Leeds
Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour | Mall Galleries, London
The Other Art Fair | Truman Brewery, London
RSW 145th Annual Exhibition | Royal Scottish Academy
Jakarta Art Papers | Art Weme Gallery, Jakarta

2025:
CASS Art Prize 2025 | Copeland Gallery, London
Culterim Residency Show #7 | CANK, Berlin
Emerging Artists: Affordable Art Fair | Evolution London, London
Visual Art Open Finalists Exhibition | Minster Building, London
London Design Festival: Unofficial Observatory | Batsford Gallery, London
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Summer Exhibition | Birmingham
Hampstead Art Society Summer Exhibition | Margaret House, London
(Actually) Attainable Art Fair | ST. ART Gallery, London
World Art Dubai | Artezaar Gallery, Dubai, UAE