Paintings by Rebecca J. White, each one of a kind.

About the artist

Rebecca J. White is a painter whose years as an electronics technician shaped the visual language of her work, and time spent living in Japan and Italy added to it. Her paintings bring together cultural symbols, buildings, and familiar landscapes to explore how tradition and technology shape the ways people connect.

Her Birth of a Torii series imagines where the torii began. The torii is the traditional Japanese gate that marks the way into a shrine or sacred space, and she sets it, as a gesture of reverence, in places you would not expect to find one. Cloud-maker takes the imagination itself as its subject: webs of line that look like electronic circuits suggest how ideas and impressions connect and change.

She studied oil painting as a graduate student at Tokyo University of the Arts (東京藝術大学院) in 2004–2005 under Koji Kinutani. Japan was home in Kyoto (2000–2004) and Nagasaki (2019–2022), and Italy in Gaeta (2005–2007) and Naples (2017–2019), and both countries still show up in her colors and subjects. Working in acrylic on canvas, she builds up color with razor blades and brushes, then lays fine geometric lines over it that read like circuitry.

Selected exhibitions and awards

• 2026: Birth of a Torii, a solo show at The Athenaeum in Alexandria, Virginia (August to September)
• 2026: Featured in a Highly Commended Artist interview by the Visual Artists Association (March)
• 2026: Guest speaker at a Visual Artists Association Art Cafe session on setting artistic goals (January, virtual)
• 2025: Named a Highly Commended Artist in the Visual Artists Association's 2025 Artist of the Year Awards, London
• 2022: Solo painting show at the Kyushu Geibunkan Museum (九州芸文館), Fukuoka
• 2022: AUTOMATIONS (オートメーションズ), a solo show at Art Space Tetra, Fukuoka
• 2022: Grand Prize for Mercantile Mechanism #20 (Yanagawa) at the 55th Sasebo Art Exhibition (第55回佐世保美術展), Shimanose Art Museum, Nagasaki
• 2022: Solo show at the Shimanose Art Museum (島瀬美術センター), Nagasaki (April)
• 2021: DUAL VIEWS, a two-artist show at Arkas Sasebo (アルカスSASEBO), Nagasaki
• 2021: Interviewed on TV Sasebo's "Spot in Sasebo"
• 2021: Canvassing Components, a solo show at Artas Gallery, Fukuoka
• 2021: Selected for the 54th Sasebo Art Exhibition, and for a group selection show (選抜展) at Gallery Art Point, Tokyo
• 2021: A solo virtual exhibition with Le 360° Gallery, and part of #MuseumWeek 2021
• 2020: Group show at Indies Gallery, Nagasaki
• 2019: Solo acrylic show at Capodichino Hall, Naples
• 2010: Solo oil and acrylic show at her studio in Gaeta, Italy
• 2004 to 2005: Group oil painting shows in Tokyo (Anfan Gallery, Narita Gallery) and Yokaichi (Kintetsu Gallery)
• 2004: Solo oil painting show at Maruzen Gallery, Kyoto
• 1998: Solo ceramics and painting show at Hungerford Gallery, Rochester, New York

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