1969 Born in Tsuchiura City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
1992 Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Oil Painting
1994 Completed the Oil Painting Course, Graduate School of Art and Design,Musashino ArtUniversity
Based in Tokyo.
In a world where information constantly flowsand quick answers and clear conclusions are often expected,
I choose not to rush toward a single answer,
but to engage with painting while valuing ambiguity and margin.
As I translate the faint traces of memory that shift day by day into color,
layer upon layer,I try to hold on to sensations that resist language.
In time, the surface begins to reflect the present moment.
If the works that emerge in this wayfind breath within someone,and gently shift the air within their heart,then perhaps the world,just slightly,
might open itself to a more generous place.
With that quiet hope,I continue to paint each day.
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Gallery Natsuka / Cross View Arts, Tokyo
2022 Sakuragi Fine Arts, Tokyo
2021 Gallery Natsuka / Cross View Arts, Tokyo
2020 Gallery Natsuka / Cross View Arts, Tokyo
2019 Sakuragi Fine Arts, Tokyo
2018 Art+Craft Gallery Sanshitsu, Tokyo
2016 Galerie Kawakami , Tokyo
2015 Art+Craft Gallery Sanshitsu, Tokyo
2014 Galerie Kawakami, Tokyo
2013 Sakuragi Fine Arts, Tokyo
2010 Gallery Natsuka, Tokyo
2008 Gallery Natsuka, Tokyo
1999 Gallery Hinoki, Tokyo("Saison Art Program ART-ING TOKYO")
1999 "Exhibition by Teruo Fujieda" Gallery αM, Tokyo "Saison Art Program ART-ING TOKYO
Group Exhibitions
2023 ▫️“TAKAHIDE KOIKE ／KANA SAKAI” IKEDA GALLERY Tokyo
▫️Six Abstract Painters: The Artist’s “Size” and “Scale”Curator: Tetsuya Oshima GALERIE PARIS
▫️“abstrait 2023” Galerie Kawakami, Tokyo
2021 "Gallery 10th Anniversary Exhibition" Galerie Kawakami, Tokyo
2019 "The2nd Makurazaki International Art Award Exhibition"
2017 "Three Artists Exhibition" Kumiko Ito, Kana Sakai, Yoko Chimura" - A Place of Ease -
Galerie Kawakami, Tokyo
Makurazaki City Cultural Resource Center, Kagoshima
2016 "cin cin !" by 18 Western-style painting artists Sukiyowa, Tokyo
2015 "New Year" Galerie Kawakami, Tokyo
2014 "The View from There" Yoko Haga / Kana Sakai Gallery Natsuka, Tokyo
2013 "Ryo" Galerie Kawakami, Tokyo
2012 "18×14cm Paintings" Sukiwa, Tokyo
"The World of 18×14cm" at Yokohama Takashimaya Department Store, Kanagawa
"View's view" Yuka Kimura/Kana Sakai Gallery Natsuka, Tokyo
2010 "Biennial Ushiku 2010" Ushiku City Central Lifelong Learning Center, Ibaraki
2009 "Adventurers on the Surface: Atsushi Tanigawa's Project Vol.3" Gallery Ishida, Tokyo
2007 "WONDER SEEDS" Exhibition Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
"From Apple to.. Exhibition" Hiroshige Gallery, Tokyo
2001 "Yasuo Kobayashi's Exhibition of the Collection of The Saison Museum of Contemporary Art"
-Politics of the Brushstroke "What is the Character of Painting?
The Saison Museum of Contemporary Art, Karuizawa
"Zero Exhibition" Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
1999 "Saison Art Program ART-ING TOKYO"
1999 "21×21" Saison Art Program Gallery, Tokyo
1994 "Two Artists Exhibition" Kyoko Okuda / Kana Sakai, Nerima Art Museum Gallery, Tokyo
1991 "Three Artists Exhibition" Shinsuke Tsutsui, Tomoko Iwasaki, Kana Sakai,
Musashino Art University, Tokyo
Awards
1994 Awarded Moritani Scholarship Fund
1997 Joyo Painting Newcomer Award, Honorable Mention
2010 The 24th Holbein Scholarship
2019 The 2nd Makurazaki International Art Award Exhibition, Sponsor Prize
Art Installations
Sawai Pharmaceutical Co.
Kyodo Kai Tech Co.
Oriental Hotel Kobe
Kichijoji Medi-corp Bldg 8