Ryoko Minamitani is a contemporary mixed-media abstract artist born in Ise City, Japan, and based in Wales, UK. 

She holds an MA in Art & Design from Leeds Beckett University and studied mixed-media painting under Tatsuhiko Yokoo, a Zen master and professional painter working in Germany and Japan.

Her practice explores the relationship between abstraction, spirituality, and the subconscious. Through intuitive processes and layered mixed-media techniques, she creates works that invite contemplation and personal interpretation. Influenced by Abstract Expressionism, Shintoism, Zen philosophy, Astrology, and the natural world, her paintings investigate the unseen connections between the self, nature, and the universe.

Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the UK and internationally, and is held in public and private collections in the UK, Europe, the USA, the Middle East, Japan, and South Korea.

EXHIBITIONS / Selected

2019-2026 Group show, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield, UK / 2025  Crane Court Gallery, London, UK / 2019-25  English Art.co, Leeds, UK / 2023  The Sound of Silence (Solo), Cupola Gallery, Sheffield, UK / 2021  The Holy Art (Shortlisted), London, UK / 2021 Thrown Contemporary, London, UK / 2019  CICA Museum, South Korea / 2018  NN Contemporary Art Open Exhibition, Northampton, UK / 2017  The Sound of Inner Universe (Solo), Chalice Gallery, London, UK / 2016  The Flower of Universe (Solo; shortlisted for the Joan Day Painting Bursary), Calver Gallery, Bradford, UK / 2015  Curator's Choice Exhibition, Leeds College of Art, Leeds, UK

COLLECTIONS

CICA Museum, South Korea / Yoga Centre, Cotswolds, UK / Sue Ryder Hospice, UK / Zen Buddhist Centre, Leeds, UK

Private collections in the UK, USA, France, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Japan, and the Middle East.