Asuka Anastacia Ogawa

Ogawa was born in 1988 in Tokyo, Japan, and moved to Petropolis, Brazil at age three, an upbringing her galleries and the Nasher Museum of Art describe as shaping a practice that draws on both her Japanese heritage and her Brazilian upbringing. She attended high school partly in Sweden and partly in Tokyo before studying in London, where she completed a BFA at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, in 2015.

Her public exhibition history begins in 2017 with a first solo show staged at the Los Angeles studio of artist Henry Taylor. In June 2019 she held her debut solo exhibition at Half Gallery in New York, titled Feijao. Blum & Poe (now Blum) announced its representation of Ogawa in April 2020, and she went on to hold solo shows with the gallery in Tokyo (2020), Los Angeles (2021 and 2023), and New York (2022). In 2024 she held Melinha at Nara Roesler in Sao Paulo, her first exhibition in Brazil. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, with some sources also noting time in New York.

Ogawa's recognition has come largely through gallery and museum programming rather than a long critical record in major outlets. Artsy included her in its 2020 Vanguard selection of artists to watch, and her work has since entered the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, and X Museum in Beijing. Institutional descriptions of her practice consistently frame her figurative paintings through the lens of her Japanese heritage and Brazilian upbringing, though a substantial body of independent critical writing has not yet accumulated.

Ogawa's secondary market is still thin and only partially documented in public price records. The best-documented result is the painting Casamento (2019), which sold for USD 73,100 at Christie's New York on 12 May 2023; the same painting was resold at Christie's New York on 21 May 2026 for USD 48,300, a decline that points to limited depth in her market to date. A separate 2019 painting, Feijao, sold at Christie's for an undisclosed price described only as "$50,000+" on 27 February 2025, which may exceed the Casamento result but cannot be confirmed as higher without an exact figure. Other works, including Holiday (2018) and Peixe (2020), have appeared in Phillips editorial coverage and at auction respectively, without a documented sale price available for this profile. The bulk of her market activity to date runs through primary sales at Blum and Nara Roesler rather than through a developed secondary market.

Ogawa is an early-career, living artist with no catalogue raisonne and a thin, only partially documented public auction record, so any pricing data point should be treated with caution rather than as an established trend line. Her strongest signals of durability so far are gallery representation by Blum and Nara Roesler and placement in three public collections at a relatively early stage in her career. Collectors should expect provenance and authentication to run through her current galleries rather than through any formal certification body.