Tomo Sakurai

Born in Japan. Drawing on the methods of conceptual and minimal art.
My practice is an act of perceiving all phenomena as a continuum—an ever-shifting gradation—and of generating latent possibilities of harmony within it.
By working with a range of materials—acrylic paint, ink, mineral pigments, metal, driftwood, wax, glass, clay, moss, and light—I reflect the inherent laws and transformations of each substance, revealing new relationships that arise in the interstices between matter and spirit, order and becoming.
These materials and processes resonate with the Japanese sensibility toward mono—the awareness of things—and with an aesthetic that finds beauty in imperfection, while also engaging with the multiplicity and material phenomenology found in post-20th-century contemporary art.
For me, creation is not an act of projecting personal will, but a record of a process that visualizes the harmony emerging through interaction with the inherent forces and phenomena of the world.
All phenomena exist as gradations, and each work becomes an attempt to capture a transient aspect—an ephemeral form—within that continuous flow.

Awards
2007 "Yokohama College of Art Graduation Exhibition"

Museum
2023 Aida Mitsuo Museum (Tokyo)
2020 Korea Art Museum (Seoul)

Main Exhibitions
Solo
2024 Schrodinger's curtain (Tokyo International Gallery, TERRADA ART COMPLEX Ⅱ, Tokyo)
2022 Y=(0.298912*R+0.586611*G+0.114478*B) (Tokyu Plaza Shibuya, Tokyo)
2020 MONOCHROME 2020 Tomo Sakurai exhibition of original (Art Gallery SANAGI, Tokyo)

Group
2025 Journey to Japan III (Atelier Natália Gromicho, Portugal)
2024 PANORAMA (Gallery Assistant at Atelier Natália Gromicho, Portugal)
2023 Crossing Borders with ART 2023 (DDD ART, Tokyo)

Art Fair
2025 Marginal Art Fair (Fukushima, Japan)
2022 FOCUS Art Fair Paris (Carrousel du Louvre, Paris)
2021 ART FAIR TOKYO 2021 (Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo)
 2020 artTNZ produced by AFT with APCA (TERRADA ART COMPLEX II, Tokyo)