ART GALLERY M is pleased to introduce works by SAIAKUNANA from our collection.

”SAIAKU” means the worst in Japanese. When Saiaku Nana first started her career as an artist in Japan, she used her real name “Nana”. However, when a colleague at work described her paintings as “Saiaku,” she added “Saiaku” to her real name and became an artist known as “Saiaku Nana. Born in Yamanashi, Japan in 1992, she entered a design school in Tokyo to study graphic design in order to work for a design firm. After graduating from the same school in 2013, she has already been showing her work in a full-scale solo exhibition in 2015, and in 2006, her installation work “Art is Rock and Roll” consisting of approximately 1,600 paintings won the Taro Okamoto Award, the grand prize of the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, and has attracted much attention. Since the beginning of her career, she has been working independently, without ever belonging to a gallery, and has expanded her activities to New York, London, and Hong Kong, and from 2020 to 2022, she will have her own gallery, SAIAKUNANA GALLERY, in London, where she will exhibit only her own works, creating a one-of-a-kind world view that combines rock and art. Her activities are not limited to the field of art, but also include a wide range of musical activities, live performances, collaborations with musicians, providing goods, and developing apparel. The charm of her work lies in the fact that it is always wrapped in childlike innocence, yet has a rebellious spirit hidden within it. She says that the root of this is because she is a music lover, and what is always referred to as “rock” is in face to face with her. She often uses pink as a base color and draws girls as motifs in her works. She says that the girl is “the girl in my heart,” “this girl who says what I can't put into words or what is bothering me,” and “I feel at ease when I draw her. Her experimental exhibition methods, such as excessively pasting artwork throughout the space, and her works that reflect her own inner worldview leave a strong impression on the viewer.