Statement
Rihomi Sato
Rihomi Sato is an artist native to Tokyo, based in New York. In 2015 she moved to New York where she continued to study abstract painting and mixed media.
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.
東京都生まれ。
2015年にニューヨークに移住後、抽象画とミクストメディアを学び、現在もニューヨークを拠点に活動する。
彼女のコラージュやペインティングでは女性の身体や、古代の絵画からポルノ雑誌やソーシャルメディアに氾濫するイメージまで、様々なソースから抽出されたモチーフがビビッドな色で散りばめられている。
彼女にとって制作は、日本からの移民そして女性として生きる中で日々揺らぐアイデンティティを模索し、また社会の固定概念に問いを投げかけるアクションである。絵具、写真、紙、布。異なる素材とデフォルメされたモチーフを都度実験的に組み合わせていく実験的なプロセスを通じて、ルッキズム、ジェンダーバイアス、人種への偏見、過度に消費されるイメージなど、日常に潜む不快感や怒りに向き合っていく。
作品に描かれた女性たちは肌の色にも体の形にも縛られず、自由に体を動かしている。足枷から解放された彼女たちは自分の欲望や感情に正直に生きているように見える。自分が社会に対して感じた違和感や疑問は、誰かも感じているものかもしれない。感じていても飲み込むしかなかった感情かもしれない。自分の表現が、声を失ってしまった人々の代わりに叫び声を上げられると信じている。
art
Exhibition
2022 " BEAMS POP UP SHOW " BEAMS T HARAJUKU, TOKYO
2021 " LAYERS OF THE MOMENT " 3RD ETHOS Gallery, NY
2019 “ New Japanese Horizon “ WHA Center, NY
“ EPOCH CENTER “ The living artist gallery, NY
“ CONSTITUTION “ Con Artist Collective, NY
“ SJAC 2019 “ Tenri Cultural Institute, NY
“ EVERY WOMAN BIENNIAL “ NY
“ insight “ Art Point Gallery Ginza, Tokyo
2018 “ Small works show “ 440 Gallery, NY
“ Summer residency show “ Con Artist Collective, NY
“ Monster exhibition “ Shibuya Hikarie Shibuya, Tokyo
“ Intensity of wants “ J-Collabo, NY
“ Second Annual International Women’s Day Art Fair “ One Art space, NY
2017 “ Annual Group Exhibition “ J-Collabo, NY
“ Bloomig in Brooklyn “ J-Collabo, NY
“ Our Mail Art Summer Biennial “ Ground floor Gallery, NY
“Wish You Were Here 16”, A.I.R. Gallery, NY
2013 Yho Art Gallery, Tokyo
Award
2019 Merit Scholarship Abstract Category, The Art Students League of NY