Mike Sasaki

"The wood forms are a consummation of my passions for drawing, sculpting and metaphysical pursuits."

As a child I would take to drawing whatever interested me, be it hockey goalies in action, mammal anatomy, or comics. These long hours of drawing lead to making art a focus of my formal education. After graduating from the Bachelor of Design Honours program at York University / Sheridan College in 2005 (where I regularly incorporated hand-drawn material into the designs), I lived in Tokyo for 5 years where I was immersed in traditional and modern Japanese culture. Studying martial arts helped to strengthen my already growing interest in philosophy and metaphysics. In my search for a hands-on approach to life and work, sculpting in wood came like an epiphany. The forms are a consummation of my passions for drawing, sculpting and metaphysical pursuits. I am currently living and working in Metro Vancouver where besides the sculptures, I am also developing a body of painting and relief wall artwork.

The Honours Program in Design at York University / Sheridan College in Toronto allowed me the opportunity to develop the most challenging self-directed concepts I could devise at the time and also served as a testing ground from which I gained valuable hands-on experience. Since completing the Honours Bachelor Degree program in 2005 I have been continually researching independently into topics such as: perception and reality; psychological conditioning, memory and time; and reality vs. truth. I am keenly interested in human energetic and neurological potential and the currently available fields of study pertaining to these topics such as: yogic philosophy, vedanta, metaphysics, and the works of J. Krishnamurti.

Permanent Display:

Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection - Superyacht Evrima - 2022, 4th floor, Spain

Infinity House - Boca Raton, Florida, USA - 2019, Architects: The Up Studio

Suncadia Resort - Washington, USA - 2024, three Western Red Cedar sculptures in the lobby, Heliotrope Architects


Exhibits:

IKIGAI at Ki Gallery, Cully, Switzerland (summer-fall 2025), and permanent collection

Renewal at Melt Studios, Picton, Ontario (May-June 2025)

Nikkei National Museum - Burnaby, BC, Canada
2021 - Lobby Display

CCBC Shop & Gallery - Granville Island, Vancouver, BC, Canada - 2019

YVR Art Program (Vancouver International Airport) - 2019

Dalbergia Fine Wood & Objects - Granville Island, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2017, 2018 (Dancing with the Unmanifest)