My work draws from personal reflection and engagement with materials, philosophy, and interdisciplinary artistic experiments.

I view the selection of materials, form, and manufacturing processes as inherently linguistic, each choice functions as a vocabulary through which I both interpret the world and communicate my perspective to others.

My practice is motivated by a desire to reimagine and transform relationships with others, with society, with the environment, and with my evolving self. Understanding that our world is fundamentally constituted through such connections, I approach each project as an opportunity to explore these essential bonds and create new possibilities for how we might relate to one another and to the world we inhabit.

Contact

info@sotanaka.com
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Upcoming Exhibitions

2025 Oct 3 - 20Cont Gallery, Nagoya
2025 Oct 10 - Nov 5Design Live, Tokyo Midtown
2025 Dec 18 - 21DesignTide, Tokyo

Solo Exhibitions

2025Let a colored paper swim in the clouds, Moro Craft, Tochigi
2025Liminal Objects, Information, Tokyo
2023Vnsh, Designart Tokyo 2023
2020Transfer, Transparency, Tata Book Shop & Gallery, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions

2024Design Contemporaries, Isetan Shinjuku, Tokyo
2021Purism, Designart Tokyo

Prize

2024Kokuyo Design Award 2024 Merit and Audience Awards winner for Memento
2023Designart Tokyo Under 30 winner for Vnsh
2021Designart Tokyo Under 30 winner for Less Than Instrument (with Kentaro Takagi)
2021Lexus Design Award shortlisted for Less Than Instrument
2020Lexus Design Award shortlisted for PE Pottery
2019Roche Bobois Award 2019 winner for ORI Console

Commercialized

2021ORI Console for Roche Bobois Paris

Press