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BIOGRAPHY - 日本語

Ryoko Goto is a Tokyo-born artist who has been based in New York since 2013 and now maintains studios in both New York and Tokyo. She holds an AFA from Musashino Art University in Tokyo.
Her practice centers on Intuitive Abstraction, developed through painting, photography, and video.
She works with materials like oil, ink, gold leaf, and traditional Japanese pigments, selecting them intuitively for each piece.
Her visual language draws from both the New York School of Abstract Expressionism and traditional Japanese aesthetics.
Her practice is guided more by philosophy than spirituality. It’s not mystical, but grounded in the interplay between material, space, and silence.

 

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Selected Highlights

  • Inori-uutoutou (2008) was acquired at an art fair in Tokyo and led to a commission for a 7-meter painting at Waterline, a luxury villa in Cape Town (2010). *The piece remains installed in the villa’s main living space.
  • Participated in the short video ENMAN, which was officially selected and nominated for the Prix Videoformes at the VIDEOFORMES International Festival in Clermont-Ferrand, France (2014).
  • Assisted artists Yuken Teruya (2015) and Tomokazu Matsuyama (2020), gaining insight into differing conceptual approaches.
  • Completed the Summer Photography Intensive at Columbia University’s School of the Arts (2016).
  • Since 2018, has been working at Fresco Decorative Arts, specializing in gilding, plaster, and glaze techniques for high-end interiors in New York and abroad.

Her work has been acquired by private collectors and professionals in architecture and design internationally.
She is currently based between New York and Tokyo, maintaining studios in both. This dual presence allows her to stay grounded in both contexts, and she remains open to working wherever meaningful projects take shape.

 

 

 

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