RIHOMI SATO

Rihomi Sato is a mixed-media artist born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, and now based in Brooklyn New York.

After moving to New York in 2015, she deepened her study of abstract art while attending The Art Students League of New York. She developed a mixed-media style combining painting, drawing, and collage with recycled materials, including fabrics, stitching, and photographs.

Her collages and paintings feature female bodies and motifs drawn from a variety of sources, ranging from ancient paintings to pornography to the images flooding social media, scattered across the surface in vibrant colors.

For her, creation is an action to explore her fluctuating identity as an immigrant from Japan and as a woman, and also to question the conventional ideas of the society. Paint, photography, paper, and fabric... Through an experimental process of combining different materials and deformed motifs, she copes with the discomfort and anger latent in everyday life, coming from lookism, gender bias, racial prejudice, and over-consumption of images.

The women depicted in her works are not constrained by the color of their skin or the shape of their bodies; they move their bodies freely. Freed from shackles and liberated, they seem to be living honestly with their desires and emotions. The discomfort and questions she has felt toward society may have been felt by anyone else too. They may have felt these feelings but had no choice but to swallow them. She believes that her expression can shout on behalf of those who have lost their voices.

Her recent exhibition include her solo exhibition “ Senses of Bonds ” at FOAM CONTEMPORARY (Tokyo), the EVERY WOMEN BIENNIAL (New York) in 2024, and a solo exhibition “ Friday Night Humanism ” at Hiro Okamoto Gallery (Tokyo) in 2023.