Sayaka Kawamura (b. 1989) is a Japanese printmaker working primarily in water-based woodblock printing. She received her BFA from Kyoto Seika University in 2013 and her MFA in Printmaking from Tama Art University, Tokyo, in 2015.
Kawamura’s artistic practice features figures and intimate scenes that linger in her memory. Characterized by a soft color palette and carefully composed negative space, her prints evoke the quiet passage of time and subtle inner sensations that dwell in her mind. Through these restrained visual elements, she gently suggests the narrative atmosphere that permeates everyday life.
Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Japan and internationally. In 2017 she received the Grand Prize at the 23rd Kawakami Sumio Woodblock Print Grand Prize Exhibition at the Kanuma Municipal Museum of Art, and in 2020 she was awarded the Grand Prize at the Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints. Her works are included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Harvard Art Museums, the Portland Art Museum, the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, the Tama Art University Museum, and the Peninsula Art Museum in Shanghai, among others.
