Bodhisattva

Sayaka Toda completed her Master’s degree in Fine Arts, specializing in Western Painting, at Joshibi University of Art and Design in 2012. Since her academic years, she has expressed a world where conceptual beauty intertwines with its grotesque counterpart, primarily through the forms of young girls, animals, and plants in her paintings. In 2019, she introduced a portrait series as allegorical images that emerge from her subjects, captured through nighttime snapshots. Recently, Toda has expanded her practice to include painting, photography, video, and installation, using diverse media to explore themes of duality and close relationships within everyday experiences. Born in 1988 in Saitama. Graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design in 2012, majoring in Western painting. Major solo exhibitions 2025 “Voice of Silence” Kyoto Museum of Photography Gallery Japanesque (Kyoto) 2025 “Camellia Sinensis” Hotel Metropolitan Kawasaki (Kanagawa) 2024 “Adding Canna Flowers to Tokyo” KANA KAWANISHI PHOTOGRAPHY (Tokyo) 2024 “Cabana-Raisan” Art Space Fukujuen (Kyoto) 2024 TOKAS Emerging 2024 “Echoes of the Unspoken: The Silent Voices of the Vanishing” Tokyo Arts and Space (Tokyo) 2024 “Monster” Gallery 10 [TOH] (Tokyo) 2023 “Lying in the Land of Overgrown Weeds” KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY (Tokyo) 2023 “The Glitter of the Shadow and Color of the Light” GALLERY MERROW (Tokyo) 2021 “ Across the Sea, or Beyond the Night” KANA KAWANISHI PHOTOGRAPHY (Tokyo) Major Group Exhibitions 2025 “What a Painting Wants” THE LOOP (Tokyo) 2024 “Emerging Directors & Curators U40g” Terada Warehouse WHAT CAFE (Tokyo) 2023 “Boundary Texture” Gallery Cafe ULTRA (Hiroshima) 2022 “Manpukuji Artist in Residence Achievements Exhibition” Obaku sect Manpukuji (Kyoto) 2022 “Diverse Cultures” Shibuya Seibu (Tokyo) 2022 “ART×NFT Meta Fair” Sonoida Shin-Yurakucho (Tokyo) 2020 “SONOAIDA#COVID -19” online exhibition