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Nohana Sayama
BA Painting · University of the Arts London · 2005 · London, UK
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London, UK
Nohana Sayama (b.2003, Osaka) is a Japanese watercolour artist based in London. Raised in Singapore, India and Japan, she paints to journal her past, to record her existence, to have nameless characters observe her in silence. Her interest in objects originates from a young realisation of the short-lived nature of material memory, through frequent partings with loved items and spaces. Through the unconventional use of Gansai on stretched British watercolour paper, she tries to express her incomplete social-cultural identity.
Nohana recently graduated from the Camberwell College of Arts and will start her Master’s in painting at the Royal College of Art this year. Upon completing her BA, Nohana has exhibited internationally, including at galleries in London, Edinburgh, Leeds, Dubai, Berlin, Jakarta, Hong Kong and Milan.
She is also the recipient of the Alexander Graham Munro Travel Award and the W Gordon Smith & Mrs Jay Gordon Smith Award at the RSW 145th Annual Exhibition, as well as the Watercolour award at the CASS Art Prize 2025.
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Education
- 2025BA Painting, University of the Arts London, UK
Residencies
- 2026/07 - Palazzo Monti - Brescia, Italy
- 2026/06 - Turps Spring Intensive - Turps Art School, London
- 2025/10 - Culterim Residency - Dahlewitz studio, Culterim, Berlin
Solo Exhibitions
- 2026/10 - “You were here before” PERG_634, Ludwigsburg, Germany (Upcoming)
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- Key Group Exhibitions
- 2026:
- “ASYLUM” Toxic Arts Gallery, Asylum Chapel, London, UK (Upcoming)
- “Summer Fling V” L.U.P.O. – Lorenzelli Projects, Milan, Italy
- “Turps Spring Intensive Exhibition” Turps Banana, London, UK
- “Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong” Art Weme Gallery, Hong Kong
- “A Leeds Songbook” Leeds City Museum, Leeds, UK
- “Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour” Mall Galleries, London, UK
- “The Other Art Fair” Truman Brewery, London, UK
- “RSW 145th Annual Exhibition” Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
- “Art Jakarta Papers” Art Weme Gallery, City Hall, Jakarta, Indonesia
- 2025:
- “Gatehouse Art Programme” Gatehouse Chambers, London, UK
- “CASS Art Prize 2025” Copeland Gallery, London, UK
- “Culterim Residency Show #7” CANK, Berlin, Germany
- “Emerging Artists: Affordable Art Fair” Evolution London, London, UK
- “Visual Art Open Finalists Exhibition” Minster Building, London, UK
- “London Design Festival: Unofficial Observatory” Batsford Gallery, London, UK
- “Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Summer Exhibition” Birmingham, UK
- “Hampstead Art Society Summer Exhibition” Margaret House, London, UK
- “Graduation Exhibition” University of the Arts London, London, UK
- “(Actually) Attainable Art Fair” ST. ART Gallery, London, UK
- “World Art Dubai” Artezaar Gallery, Dubai, UAE
- “WHAT NOW” Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK