Cocona Murayama

1999 Born in Saitama

Statement

Working mainly in wooden sculpture and photography, I use everyday things as motifs and explore geometric shapes drawn from existing forms, trajectories and movement. I also pursue the effects that arise from compositions of colour.

I want to take the theory of form built around geometric shapes, and the compositions of colour, that are already established within art history, and bring them to bear on the ordinary things of today.

Through sculpture and photography, I want to shake off fixed ideas and open up the new viewpoints that lie hidden within them, in as many directions as I can.

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Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1999
Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Painting, Oil Painting Major in 2021
Currently enrolled in Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School, Oil Painting, 2nd Research Studio

Selected Exhibitions

2026
“grid5” (biscuit gallery/ Tokyo)
“Day 2” (TURNER GALLERY/ Tokyo)
2025
“grid4” (biscuit gallery/ Tokyo)
“Art in the Sky 2025 ~ Floating Strata ~” (Geijutsu Mura Park/ Nagano)
“hot pot” (YUGA gallery/ Tokyo)
“73rd Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation and Completion Works Exhibition” (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum/ Tokyo)
“Tokyo University of the Arts Oil Painting Graduation Work In-School Selection Exhibition 2025” (Painting Building/ Tokyo)
2024
“Project Panorama / Letter from ( )” (46 Gallery/ Tokyo)
“INTRO1” (Daikanyama Hillside Terrace/ Tokyo)
2023
“Intruder / Hyacinth House and Art” (Bessho Swamp Park/ Saitama)
“Supported Flow” (Nakamachi no Ie/ Tokyo)
2022
“CHILDREN’S ROOM Popsicles” (Gallery haco/ Tokyo)

Inquire about works Instagram @cocona_murayama Artist page — biscuit gallery ↗