Yuina Todman

Yuina Todman is a multidisciplinary artist from Okinawa, Japan. She studied oil painting, contemporary art, video performance, sculpture, and other expressive forms at the Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts. After her studies, she taught art for four years while preparing to attend art school in New York. In 2019, her path took an unexpected turn to Louisiana, where she began her professional artistic journey.

Yuina’s work explores the dialogue between the visible and the invisible, the known and the unknown. Drawing from her own experiences with anxiety and transformation, she creates pieces that invite viewers to reflect on vulnerability, resilience, and the beauty within imperfection.

Central to her artistic practice is sand—a recurring medium and metaphor that embodies memory and change. To Yuina, each grain of sand represents a fragment of experience, an echo of the past shaping the present and future. By incorporating sand into her paintings and installations, she gives form to fleeting emotions and moments that might otherwise fade, transforming the intangible into something visceral and enduring.

Through her art, Yuina illuminates the silent battles we all face, using her practice as a bridge between worlds—between what can be seen and what can only be felt.