Winner of the 37ème Salon International du Paris 2024 – Excellent Prize

Josset Thibaud, editor-in-chief of France’s prestigious Univers des Arts, writes:

“It is a pleasure to enter into the spiritual world of Sumiko Sakamoto. In her own expression, she has reached a level where she reconciles her taste for aesthetic formalism with her desire to communicate something deep within herself, without the need to justify her cultural conformity or personal foundation. Each of her works is truly a piece of spiritual beauty, a composition that is a direct manifestation of the noblest and most honest expression the human spirit is capable of bringing forth. We rejoice that a creator like her can bring us such an image. It is an image that embodies her inner life, unleashed like a gift to the gods on a golden tray, and it represents our lives as well.”