Anna Saito was born in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, in 1989.
She grew up surrounded by nature. She met oil painting in junior high school and developed interest in art. She entered a local art high school, and after graduation, she moved to Tokyo to attend Joshibi University of Art and Design, which she still currently attends.
She started her artist activities in Japan in 2009.
She participated in art contests and held her first solo exhibition in October.
This exhibition, “Adolescence End” at Ouchi Gallery, is the first exhibition outside of Japan for her.
Her artwork are mostly 2D, and the main pieces in “Adolescence End” are acrylic paintings on paper and on top of photographs.
She uses people as the motif in many of her work, but rather than painting the people themselves, she portrays what she feels through people in her daily life.