Artworks
About
Bio
RYU SATAKE is a Japanese new media artist working across digital imaging, generative media, and large-scale installations. His practice investigates perception, spatial experience, and the instability of visual recognition through moving images and immersive environments. By combining digital processes with installation-based presentation, he creates works that explore the relationship between image, space, and the viewer’s perception. His recent projects focus on large-scale media environments that examine how presence emerges, transforms, and disappears through continuous movement and light. Selected Exhibitions / Selections 2025 — 注目の作家 2025, 日本橋アート特別企画, Tokyo, Japan 2026 — RUSH – 高まり, M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Milan, Italy 2026 — NOW OR NEVER, BOOMER Gallery, London, United Kingdom 2026 — Unfixed: Between Form and Dissolution, CISTA ARTS Gallery, London, United Kingdom 2026 — ExpoMetro Madrid, ExpoMetro Madrid, Madrid, Spain 2026 — NY Open Call Exhibition 2026 Spring/Summer, Selected Artist, New York, USA, 2026 2026 — GUTSTRING Showcase 2026, Selected Artist, 2026 2026 — Selected Artist, Seeing Red, 13b Gallery, Kamnik, Slovenia 2026 — Selected Artist, B*O/D&Y Exhibition, London, UK – Invitation received 2026 — States of Exposure, CISTA ARTS, London, United Kingdom 2026 — Selected Artist, Vivid Exhibition, Artly Mix, Brazil 2026 — Selected Artist, "Horizons", Domio Gallery (Online), Brazil 2026 — Fox Yard Studio Digital Show, Selected Artist, London, United Kingdom 2026 – 27th Community Art Exhibition (Selected Artist), Circular ArtSpace, Bristol, United Kingdom 2026 – Selected Artist, Arrival Gallery Exhibition, London, United Kingdom 2026 — Selected Artist, Artist Director Program, Micro Galleries, Australia / Hong Kong 2026ーArtReview USA — RYU SATAKE: Reshaping Reality Through Immersive Digital Spaces (Featured Artist Profile, 2026) 2026ーInvited to join Boomer Gallery Resident Artist Programme, London, UK (2026) 2026ーPresence Between Emergence and Afterimage II 02 – Selected for Under the Skin of Things, CISTA ARTS (2026) 2026ーPresence Between Emergence and Afterimage (Original Image) VI01 – Selected for Under the Skin of Things, CISTA ARTS (2026) 2026 — Times Square Billboard Showcase, Selected Artist, New York, USA Publications / Features 2026 — Featured Artist, Art Global Contemporain (Online Publication) 2026 —Selected Artist, International Contemporary Artists (Publication) 2026―The World Art Collection (Artwork published, Culturale Lab, Palermo / New York launch) Professional Activities / Recognition 2026―Included in the Artist Directory, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (Public Art / Percent for Art Program), New York, USA. Programs / Residencies / Professional Development 2026ーSelected Participant, COP Out Crew, Micro Galleries, 2026
Statement
RYU SATAKE My work explores the disappearance of contours. I am interested in the state that emerges when boundaries lose their certainty without vanishing completely. Rather than constructing images, I investigate the conditions through which forms, meanings, identities, and spaces become unstable and begin to withdraw from recognition. The work is not concerned with representation. It is concerned with the dissolution of contours. As contours disappear, distinctions between image and space, presence and absence, visibility and invisibility gradually lose their separation. What remains is neither an image nor an object, but a condition of presence that cannot be fixed, named, or fully recognized. Black is not a color. Black is a structure. It is a field in which contours dissolve, recognition becomes unstable, and multiple states of existence coexist simultaneously. My practice is an exploration of infinite presence. A presence beyond recognition. A presence beyond form. A presence that remains after contours disappear.
Exhibitions
2026
Times Square Billboard Showcase, Selected Artist, New York, USA
New York
Presence Between Emergence and Afterimage (Original Image) VI01 – Selected for Under the Skin of Things, CISTA ARTS (2026
London
Invited to join Boomer Gallery Resident Artist Programme, London, UK (2026)
London
NY Open Call Exhibition 2026 Spring/Summer, Selected Artist, New York, USA, 2026
New York
Unfixed: Between Form and Dissolution, CISTA ARTS Gallery, London, United Kingdom
London
States of Exposure, CISTA ARTS, London, United Kingdom
London
NOW OR NEVER, BOOMER Gallery, London, United Kingdom
London
ExpoMetro Madrid, ExpoMetro Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Spain
ArtReview USA — RYU SATAKE: Reshaping Reality Through Immersive Digital Spaces (Featured Artist Profile, 2026)
New York
RUSH – 高まり, M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Milan, Italy
Italy