A graduate of the Hague Academy of Fine Arts, Saeko Ehara later completed her training in UI/UX design at Digital Hollywood Studio in Tokyo before joining the sixth cohort of the VerticalCrypto Art Residency in 2023. This dual background, spanning classical fine arts and digital technologies, shapes a practice in which artificial intelligence, generative art, and 3D scanning become tools for translation rather than reproduction. Saeko Ehara does not seek to faithfully reproduce the objects or memories she captures: through digitization, they take on new contexts, bearing the traces of memory, time, and personal experience. Her creative process draws on an intimate aesthetic, that of “kirakira,” literally “sparkling,” a Japanese term referring to those fleeting moments when the ordinary is transformed and the heart is seized by an unexpected light. Shiny anime cards, transparent stickers, acrylic jewelry, glassware, and flower encyclopedias worn thin from being leafed through: these are all fragments of childhood that tirelessly resurface in her works, where the flower functions less as a botanical subject than as a vehicle for emotions and pre-verbal sensations. For her, digital technology is not merely a production tool but a medium that allows us to rewrite our relationship with the world, making visible both what is lost and what is born in the act of transformation.

Saeko Ehara’s work has been exhibited at international institutions and art fairs such as the Theater of Digital Art in Dubai, the Grand Palais Immersif in Paris, ARTECHOUSE in Washington, D.C., CADAF New York, Crypto Art Week Asia, and REFRACTION 02, with solo and group exhibitions in Tokyo, New York, Dubai, London, Los Angeles, as well as Zurich, Bern, and Seoul. She is represented by several galleries and platforms, including √K Contemporary and The Chain Museum in Tokyo, Galerie Glaab in Bern, and Artpoint in Paris. Her institutional and commercial collaborations include the Swiss Pavilion at EXPO 2025 Osaka-Kansai for Nestlé Japan, a collaboration with Asahi Super Dry in Australia, and projects for ETERNAL Art Space (Sydney, Riyadh, Tokyo). Alongside her work as a visual artist, she is also a prolific VJ, notably performing at MUTEK JP at Tokyo’s Shibuya Stream Hall, bringing her dazzling creations to concert halls and arenas.