• ​Rhythm for Three people
  Megumi Utsunomiya　

  Megumi Utsunomiya
  Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School
  Graduate School of Fine Arts,
  Tokyo University of the Arts
  
  

  We only have one moment now and time cannot go back. If that's the case, we can meet as many times as we like. As if each of the various sensations were coming together.
  Time is not reversible. The moment we are in can never be replayed. But I'd rather say because of that, I'll seek out as many new encounters as I can to connect with people and their perceptions.
• ​Inner trip
  Rieko Egami　

  Rieko Egami
  Kyoto City University of Arts Graduate School
  Graduate School of Arts,
  Kyoto City University of Arts
  
  

  My work is an experiment in visualizing something as vague as layers of air. I want to paint the experience that occurs between sight and touch.
  When working on my pieces, I try to express invisible layers of air in a visible way. It's kind of an experiment. In this way, I aim to depict experience that is caused between sight and touch.
• untitled untitled
  Mana Ogata
  Tokyo Zokei University
  Tokyo Zokei University
  
  

  
  By focusing on the ordinary things in everyday life and making them into prints or three-dimensional objects, he transforms them into something that can be felt.
  My creative process is realized by making prints and objects from quotidian matters which are otherwise overlooked.
• Onee Shan Shui Girl The Yam Cha on June
  Shoichi Okumura　

  Shoichi Okumura
  Tama Art University
  Tama Art University
  
  

  
  Through landscape paintings, which are condensed expressions of utopia, I would like to reconsider the influence of Chinese culture on Japanese art.
  Chinese-style landscape painting is a style that expresses a concept of utopia in a condensed way. By employing this method, I would like to revisit the influence of Chinese culture on Japanese art.
• Jobs / pineapple Jobs / pineapple
  Takehiro Kawakaku　

  Gakudai Kawasumi
  Aichi Prefectural University of Arts
  Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music
  
  

  I believe we all began with a highly sensitive reception match with something and the actions that make it appear. I had a hunch that it might be a painting.
  Speculating on the origin of art, I think it may be a human impulse to establish a highly sensitive communication with invisible beings and to visualize them. I suppose, probably, that painting was the first of such methods.
• ​Fossil of TV
  Mizuho Kuki　

  Mizuho Kuki
  Kyoto City University of Arts Graduate School
  Graduate School of Arts,
  Kyoto City University of Arts
  
  

  When I stare at something I'm attached to, the atmosphere in the air changes, and I feel something like a gaze. The memories and thoughts between them and me become my works.
  As I gaze at things with affection, I sometimes detect change in the atmosphere and feel like they are gazing back at me. I translate my memories and emotions associated with these things into my artworks.
• ​Twist a rope together
  Azusa Kobayashi　

  Azusa Kobayashi
  Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School
  Graduate School of Fine Arts,
  Tokyo University of the Arts
  
  

  By entrusting each motif, such as hair or string, with its own meaning, and scattering them on the screen and composing them, I create a painting that is a text.
  When I paint, I assign individual meanings to such motifs as hairs and strings and scatter them all over the canvas, thereby composing a piece of painting just as a writer composes her words.
• MANDARA MANDARA
  Ryuhei Sakurai　

  Ryuhei Sakurai
  Tama Art University
  Tama Art University
  
  

  
  People are connected through "smiles". Smiles connect people to harmony and continue to spread infinitely.
  “Smile” is a bond that connects people. By helping establish peace between one person and another, it expands the connection of people infinitely.
• ​Inn/Courtyard
  Aya Shiina　

  Aya Shiina
  Musashino Art University Graduate School
  Graduate School of Art and Design,
  Musashino Art University
  
  

  I drew an inn that was once a red-light district. In the somewhat deserted courtyard of the inn, plants were growing rapidly.
  I painted a picture of a lodge that used to be a brothel. The lodge's courtyard was a bit deserted, but plants were thrusting up vigorously.
• ​Trace of the Light
  Nozomi Suzuki　

  Nozomi Suzuki
  Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School
  Graduate School of Fine Arts,
  Tokyo University of the Arts
  
  

  I would like to use primitive photographic techniques to materially visualize latent images, such as memories of the owner or the object, hidden in objects that have passed over time.
  By employing primitive photography to take pictures of old objects, I aim to visualize memories of their owners, as well as the objects themselves. I believe they can reveal a hidden, but “latent image.”
• ​Neo City
  Daisuke Tajima　

  Daisuke Tajima
  Aichi Prefectural University of Arts
  Aichi Prefectural University of
  Fine Arts and Music
  
  

  All the works I create are empty self-portraits wrapped in anger and regret.
  All of my artworks are self-portraits. They were created to represent my anger, frustration and emptiness.
• ​Ancient of Light, Water and Tree #2 (Fukushima)
  Akira Tanaka　

  Sho Tanaka
  Musashino Art University Graduate School
  Graduate School of Art and Design,
  Musashino Art University
  
  

  I'm fascinated by trees. Without moving from the spot, the changing scenery and time are etched into the bark and body of the artist. It's somewhat similar to my own work.
  I'm attracted to trees. As they stay where they took root, the traces of changing landscapes and times have been engraved on their bark and trunks. That's somehow akin to my way of creating art.
• PUTTER PUTTER
  Takuro Tamayama　

  Takuro Tamayama
  Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School
  Graduate School of Fine Arts,
  Tokyo University of the Arts
  
  

  I would like to someday witness the moment when art was born in a dark, dark cave a long, long time ago.
  I wish I could have witnessed the moment when art began in a dark cave long, long ago.
• Twilight snowfall (Bosetsu) Twilight snowfall (Bosetsu) Photography: Keizo Kioku
  Naoki Tomita　

  Naoki Tomita
  Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School
  Graduate School of Fine Arts,
  Tokyo University of the Arts
  
  

  I am interested in drawing things that can be seen to make us feel things that cannot be seen, and drawing out our own senses by tracing the world.
  I paint a picture of visible things to let viewers feel the presence of the invisible. Also, I'm interested in tracing the outline of the world around me to magnify what I felt there through my five senses.
• ​King of Clay, At Blue Night
  Futoshi Nishi　

  Taishi Nishi
  Kyoto City University of Arts Graduate School
  Graduate School of Arts,
  Kyoto City University of Arts
  
  

  He explores places where reality and fiction coexist, things that are opaque and secret, the boundaries between painting and reality, and the interrelationship between visual images and materiality.
  I'm seeking to express a place where reality and fiction are mixed up, an uncertain and mysterious thing, a borderline where pictures and reality meet, and correlation between visual images and materiality.
• not clear 01 not clear 01
  Sonoko Nukaga　

  Sonoko Nukaga
  Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School
  Graduate School of Fine Arts,
  Tokyo University of the Arts
  
  

  An unstable three-dimensional object that has (or lacks) both the spatiality of sculpture and the frontality of relief.
  I presented an unstable tridimensional object that possesses the extensity of a sculpture and the frontality of reliefs... Or, the object may lack both.
• Mirage #5 Mirage #5
  Masayoshi Nojo　

  Masayoshi Nojo
  Kyoto University of Art and Design Graduate School
  Kyoto University of Art and Design
  Graduate school
  
  

  The mental world is said to be a phenomenon that emerges from the brain. Works are born from the process of bringing these things from memory into reality.
  A mental world is said to be a phenomena derived from cerebral actions. I employ this in creating art, by developing my memories into concrete forms.
• ​Room
  Akiko Hashimoto　

  Akiko Hashimoto
  Musashino Art University Graduate School
  Graduate School of Art and Design,
  Musashino Art University
  
  

  Create a fictional room on that wall.
  Real space, the fiction of painting.
  The two just sit there quietly, showing the world.
  I created a fictional room on the wall. With a real space and a fictional image being placed alongside silently, they exhibit how the world looks to me.
• ​Window Photo by Agata Kenji
  Rena Sanpei　

  Reina Mikame
  Tama Art University
  Tama Art University
  
  

  
  With the theme of reflection, I create works using colored frames as a device for projecting iconography.
  The theme of my work is “Reflection”. I created my piece using colored frames as a device to project images.
  
• REPETITION RED (dot) REPETITION RED (dot)
  Mio Yamato　

  Mio Yamato
  Kyoto University of Art and Design Graduate School
  Kyoto University of Art and Design Graduate School
  
  

  Continue drawing dots every day. Our bodies and senses continue to change slightly every day, and these constant changes and fluctuations are manifested in form.
  I practice stippling every day. In doing so, I feel our body and senses delicately changing daily. I translate these ceaseless changes and eternal circulation into a concrete image.

*Some of the work photos may differ from the exhibited works. *The name of the university at the time of graduation/completion in March 2015 is specified.
*Note: Not all of the artwork pictured above was exhibiting at the aatm 2015 *Note: Names of academic institutions are given as of March 2015 when the artists completed their coursework for graduation.