MATSUDA Nayuko

MATSUDA Nayuko is a painter who works in stain technique. Controlling the process by which color soaks into raw canvas, she partitions the surface into areas the pigment reaches and areas it does not, treating the border between image and ground with the same intensity as the relations between motifs within the painting itself. Plants, figures, and landscape coexist on the surface, each remaining slightly distinct, and the gaze moves between elements, assembling its own reading.

Born in Aichi Prefecture in 2002. Graduated from the Department of Painting, Oil Painting Course, Musashino Art University, in 2025; currently enrolled in the same university's graduate school. Selected exhibitions include FACE 2024 (Sompo Museum of Art, Tokyo), Inter-University Five Art Schools Exchange Exhibition (Tokyo, 2024), Spring Footsteps II (Suzu Gallery, Tokyo, 2024), and For Want of a Single Needle (gallery33 south, Tokyo, 2023). Recipient of the Special Recommendation Prize at the Inter-University Five Art Schools Exchange Exhibition, Tokyo (2024), and the Encouragement Prize at the 49th Tokyo Exhibition of Art (2023).