Works
Ritual Room (Pretend to Be Happy)
2024
Oil on canvas, Acrylic, Panel, 229×150×4cm, 229×100×4cm, 46×64×4cm (Set of 3 paintings)
Ritual Room (Arrow of Time)
2025
Oil on canvas, Acrylic, Panel, 229 × 100 × 4 cm
Distant Thunder, Eyes Closed in Silence
2025
Oil on canvas, Acrylic, Panel, 92 × 77 × 4 cm
Distant Thunder, Eyes Closed in Silence
2025
Oil on cotton, Acrylic, Panel, 92 × 79 × 4 cm
objectual / embodied subject 2
2025
Oil on canvas, Acrylic, Panel, 18 × 14 × 2 cm
objectual / embodied subject 3
2025
Oil on cotton, Acrylic, Panel, 18 × 10 × 2 cm
objectual / embodied subject 4
2025
Oil on canvas, Acrylic, Panel, 40 × 28.5 × 4 cm
Statue and Vessels
2024
Oil on canvas, Acrylic, Panel, Stone, 29.7 × 42 × 4 cm
Yobitsugi (blue htp)
2024
Oil and Acrylic on canvas, Panel, 50 × 30 cm
Tones of Haniyama
2023
Oil on cotton, Acrylic, Panel, 30 × 148 × 4 cm
Tones of Haniyama
2023
Oil on cotton, Acrylic, Panel, 35 × 168 × 4 cm
2025
Installation view of "Repetition and Transformation : The Sum" at MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY, Tokyo, photo by Yuma Nishimura
2025
Installation view of "Repetition and Transformation : The Sum" at MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY, Tokyo, photo by Yuma Nishimura
2025
Installation view of "Repetition and Transformation : The Sum" at MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY, Tokyo, photo by Yuma Nishimura
Yobitsugi (Forest Town)
2024
Oil and Acrylic on canvas, Panel, 55 × 34.5 cm
Yobitsugi (Forest Town)
2024
Oil and Acrylic on canvas, Panel, 14 ×18 cm
Yobitsugi (TANGO)
2024
Oil and Acrylic on canvas, Panel, 50 ×30 cm
oil(tail)lamp
2024
Oil and Acrylic on canvas, Panel, 18.2 × 25.7 cm
afterglow
2024
Oil and Acrylic on canvas, Panel, 87 ×150 cm
Mushiokuri
2023
Oil and Acrylic on canvas, Panel, 40 × 28 cm
Yobitsugi (5 o'clock and a cup of sake)
Oil and Acrylic on cotton, Panel, 52 × 30 cm
Ball Game
2023
The Beats of Ghosts
2023
Oil and Acrylic on canvas, Panel, 150 × 87 cm
Yobitsugi (memory of soil)
2023
Oil and Acrylic on canvas, Panel, 34 × 40 cm
fountain
2023
Oil and Acrylic on canvas, Panel, 72.5 × 42.5 cm
astral Escape
2023
afterglow
2023
Oil and Acrylic on canvas, Panel, 130.3 × 194 cm
afterglow
Yobitsugi (reconciliation of two forces)
2022
Oil and Acrylic on canvas, Panel, Dimension variable
Yobitsugi (Lights and Sinuhe)
2022
Oil and Acrylic on canvas, Panel, 46 × 52 cm
Yobitsugi (festival music)
2022
Oil and Acrylic on canvas, Panel, 125 × 170 cm
Yobitsugi (The Old Straight Track)
2022
Oil and Acrylic on canvas, Panel, 130.3 × 194 cm / Dimension variable
2022
Oil and Acrylic on canvas, Panel, 22.7 × 22.7 cm
Yobitsugi (Ship of Atlantis)
2022
Oil and Acrylic on canvas, Panel, 93 × 118 cm
Yobitsugi (memento/blue)
2022
Oil and Acrylic on canvas, Panel, 244 × 122 cm
Yobitsugi (memento/blue)
2022
Oil and Acrylic on cotton, Panel, 83 × 63 cm
Genius of the Three Realms
2021
Oil and Acrylic on cotton, Panel, 180 × 125 cm
Genius of the Three Realms
2021
Oil and Acrylic on cotton, Panel, 180 × 125 cm
Yobitsugi (Klein bottle)
2021
Oil and Acrylic on cotton, Panel, 21.5 × 28 cm
◯△□（Veronica）/ ◯△□（Śiva）
2021
Oil and Acrylic on cotton, Panel, 27.3 × 27.3 cm
Ordinary picture (Frame)
2020
Acrylic on cotton, Panel, 42 × 29.7 cm
Born in Kyoto in 1988. B.F.A. Printmaking, Kyoto Seika University in 2010.
Samejima’s work is based on the idea that people cannot perceive the entirety of the world directly; instead, they construct their own realities from fragmentary information obtained through their five senses. With this premise of perception shaped by incomplete observation, she creates paintings as devices to reveal the “invisible existence” that lies beyond those fragments.
Her recent exhibitions are “The Visions of Contemporary Art 2025″ The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo (2025), solo exhibition:“afterglow” 2kw gallery, Shiga (2023), solo exhibition:”The Beats of Ghosts” NADiff Gallery,Tokyo (2023) and “ACT (Artists Contemporary TOKAS) Vol. 5 ungraspable” Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, Tokyo (2023).
Her major awards are The Visions of Contemporary Art 2025, VOCA Honorable Mention (2025), Heiwado Foundation Emerging Artists Art Exhibition, 30th Anniversary Special Prize (2024) and NONIO ART WAVE AWARD 2021, Grand Prix / NONIO Prize (2021).
Biography