About

Misaki Hata 畑岬 (b. 1994) is a Japanese-born, UK raised painter, currently residing in Göteborg, Sweden.

Drawing on Japanese ink painting traditions (sumi-e) and folding screen painting, Misaki Hata merges the richness of Western oil painting with Eastern compositions and pictorial frameworks. Her works expand the expressive potential of both traditions, transforming nature and interior landscapes into mirrors for personal and cultural reflection. Influenced by family photographs, poems, and stories gathered across a life between the UK, Japan, and Sweden, her paintings bridge places, times, and emotional geographies.

Her paintings inhabit this space between worlds. Born in Tokyo and raised in the London suburbs, her practice is shaped by a lifelong dialogue between cultures, landscapes, and visual traditions. She studied Japanese Culture and Arts at the University of Tokyo before completing a Master’s in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology at the University of Oxford in 2017. Her training at the Royal Drawing School in London further honed her observational eye. Now based in Göteborg, Sweden, Misaki’s paintings reflect an ongoing search of a place to land within themselves.

CV

Education
2023 Drawing Intensive, Royal School of Drawing, London, UK
2018 MSc in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK
2016 Contemporary art history, study residency at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 BA in Japanese arts and cultural studies, University of Tokyo, Japan

Future exhibitions

2026 A Place to Land, solo exhibition, KC Gallery, Göteborg

Past exhibitions
2025 A Very Demure Evening, solo exhibition, Symbiont Culture, Göteborg

2025 “Nya Medlem Uställning”, KC Galleri, Göteborg

2025 “Summer Exhibition” Green & Stone Gallery, South Kensington, London

2025 Vårsalong, Studio Tjugo, Göteborg

2025 Jackson’s Art prize, Long-listed, London

2024 “Works on Paper” Green & Stone Gallery, South Kensington, London

2023 ‘Cocoon’ collaboration with Sherry Zheng, The Corner Shop WIndow, Newtown, Australia

2019, ‘Travels and tribulations’, Guy Gold Coffee Bar & Treatment Rooms, solo exhibition

2016, ‘Foreign Nihonga’, The Container gallery, Tokyo, Japan, group exhibition

2015, ‘Bi’, University of Tokyo Bi gallery, Japan, group exhibition

Contact
msakihata@gmail.com

Oil on canvas