SAKURAI Ryuhei

Teaching Staff (Multidisciplinary Arts)

Title Assistant Professor
Research Fields Sculpture / Three-Dimensional Art
Education
2017
Master’s, Tama Art University
2016
National Taiwan University
2015
Bachelor’s, Tama Art University
Selected Professional Experience
2024-Present
Assistant Professor (2024-Present), Akita University of Art
2023-2024
Adjunct Lecturer, Akita University of Art High School
2019-2024
Assistant, Akita University of Art
2018-2019
Staff, Makers’Base Tokyo
Recent Activities <Selected Solo /  Group exhibitions>

2025
“Nakanojo Biennale 2025”, Nakanojo machi, Gunma, Japan
2024
“ASYL”, Gallery K, Tokyo, Japan
2023
Award winners Exhibition of “Spiral Independent Creators Festival 23”, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan
“Sendai Independents 2023”, TURN ANOTHER ROUND, Sendai, Japan
2020
“Revealing”, Atorion, Akita, Japan
2019
“Kamikoani Project 2019”, Kamikoani village, Akita prefecture, Japan
“Arts Arts 2019”, Atorion, Akita, Japan
2018
“Nippon Collage”, Gallery K, Tokyo, Japan
2016
Solo Exhibition “Trial”, Tama Art University
Solo Exhibition ”Ryuhei Sakurai”, Gallery K
2015
“T-ism”, Gallery Kunimatsu Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
“SIDE”, Gallery Shimizu, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan
“International Shoebo x Sculpture”, Taiwan

<Awards / Prizes>

2026
“The 29th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art”, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
2025
Selected in“The 16th Gunma Biennale for Young Artists”, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
2022
Encouragement prize in “Spiral Independent Creators Festival 23”, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan
2015
Winning a prize in “ART AWARD MARUNOUCHI2015”, Marunouchi building, Tokyo, Japan
Courses Taught Contemporary Art Theory 1,2
Contemporary Art Seminar (Multidisciplinary Arts)
Multidisciplinary Arts Seminar A, B, C
Art Work Researcch
Psychology
Graduation Project (Multidisciplinary Arts)
Example Works
Circle (2014) RUSH (2016) Large Traces of pit dwellings and Kumaishi (2019) Revealing (2020)
Live life (2023) Rotating Objects #1 (2024) Rotating Objects #3 too close to be real (2025) Photo by 小暮伸也(Lo.cu.p studio)

Further details (in Japanese) can be found at the following link: SAKURAI Ryuhei (Japanese page)