Biography

Kato Megumi works across painting, low relief, and installation, building situations that involve the viewer's bodily sense of space. Through familiar, approachable imagery, she examines time, memory, and the relation between fiction and reality.

Recent group exhibitions include Pure Duration, Gallery hazi, Iwakura, Aichi (2025) and Cream Soda, Melting, a curated project at Gallery New Ginzado, Gifu (2024). Kato took part in the Sakushima Project, and the work is permanently installed on the island.

BFA in Oil Painting, Aichi University of the Arts; currently enrolled in the MFA program in Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts. Born 2003 in Gifu, Japan.

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EDUCATION

2026

Aichi University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Oil Painting, BFA

Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Painting, MFA, enrolled

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2025

Pure Duration, Gallery hazi, Iwakura

2024

Cream Soda, Melting, Gallery New Ginzado, Gifu

COLLECTIONS

Sakushima Project, Sakushima, Aichi