SAITO Haruka
SAITO Haruka
update: 2026.8.31
- Name
- SAITO Haruka
- Genre
- Visual Art
Profile
BFA, Oil Painting Course, Department of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tama Art University, 2011.
Haruka Saito works across painting, ceramics, video, books and installation.
She is also a member of Hiyake-ha, Ongoing Collective, and Hoypoy.
Recent exhibitions:
“Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2020 ‘Sunburn After Swimming in the Painted Pool’,” Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
“Sleeping While Standing/ Speaking While Swimming,” Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo, 2020
“If the Painted Juice Were Not Real, We Wouldn’t Exist in This Form in This World,” The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, 2017
“TWS-Emerging 2012 ‘the visible star and the invisible star from the earth which looked at the spectacle that can be recalled and the spectacle that cannot be recalled, are revolving each other, including the earth’,” TWS Hongo, Tokyo
Recent awards:
“Art Orinpia 2015” Executive Committee Special Award
“Tokyo Wonder Wall 2011” Tokyo Wonder Wall Prize
About works / performance
Haruka Saito works from the perspective that “time does not exist, but is a conceptual construct arising from the collective behavior of physical phenomena such as gravity and kinetic energy. “ Through paintings, ceramics, and video works, she relates events and personal everyday experiences to multidimensional spacetime, exploring transformations in the structure of time. By documenting everyday experiences as motifs, she considers the act of description itself as a catalyst for generating new causal connections within spacetime. Through a process in which forms depicted in paintings are recreated as ceramics and then returned to paintings and video, the works become mutual motifs, continuously reshaping their relationships across creation and daily life, past and future, and two and three dimensions.
The tulip not now in bloom exists as a bulb、sleeping side ways and standing uplight into view again, repeating this for decades. 2025
Oil on Canvas, 53×65.2cm
A closed book/An opened dumpling/It feels so strange that yesterday's left over dumpling wrappers and today's leftover filling can never meet. 2025
Oil on Canvas, 162.0×390.9cm(detail)
Space(pouring Rain/Zooom!) 2025
Ceramic, 18×10.5×6.5cm
Credit: Haruka Akagi
《Space(a window/dandelions)》2026
Ceramic, 18.×12.5×12cm
Credit: Haruka Akagi
The Shadow Shapes are Mountains 2017
Mixed media, 17min (View of video installation)
Credit: Haruka Akagi
Hidden Dimension 2026
Oil on Canvas, 148×500cm (detail)
Credit: Haruka Akagi
Hidden Dimension 2026
Oil on Canvas, 148×500cm (detail)
Credit: Haruka Akagi
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