Ayaka Tadano

Ayaka Tadano is a Japanese painter who makes landscape paintings on washi paper using mineral pigments, animal glue and silver leaf. She was born in Miyagi Prefecture in 1992 and holds degrees from Musashino Art University and Tokyo University of the Arts. She was a 2026 resident at the Serlachius Residency in Mänttä, Finland, for three months, where she was drawn to Finnish modernists such as Ellen Thesleff.