Erika Abe

Erika Abe is a Tokyo-based Japanese painter born in Hiroshima in 1998. She earned her B.A. from Tama Art University in 2021 and completed her M.A. in Japanese Painting at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2025.

Through the forms of trees, Abe explores the relationship between humans and nature. Working with traditional materials including washi paper, plant-based dyes, and mineral pigments, her practice considers sustainability and the interconnectedness of land, material, and image.

Erika Abe is a Japanese painter based in Tokyo, born in Hiroshima in 1998. She received her B.A. from Tama Art University in 2021 and completed her M.A. in Japanese Painting at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2025. Abe explores the relationship between humans and nature through the forms of trees, using traditional materials such as washi paper, plant-based dyes, and mineral pigments to examine sustainability in painting and the relationship between land, material, and image.