Ryo Kajitani is a Queer artist and art model based in Tokyo.
They are asexual and a survivor of violence; these experiences inform their artwork.

Kajitani majored in oil-based woodblock printmaking at Tama Art University from 2010 to 2014. Drawn at the time to digital illustration that exploited layered compositions, they chose woodblock printmaking—which demands physical overprinting and the constraints of carving—to revisit and deepen their perspective on digital production in a recursive way.

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As a doctoral candidate in studio practice, they studied under the late Kunio Motoe, an art historian (1948–2019), and Yutaka Nakamura, a cultural anthropologist. Their research tentatively explored how the narrowly ontological aesthetics distilled from Martin Heidegger’s The Origin of the Work of Art could be applied and implemented by makers within exhibition spaces.

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After completing their studies, Kajitani has worked as an art model and full-time graphic designer. Since 2021, they have been experimenting with photo collages, integrating basic, code-based image-processing techniques—such as Python—into their practice.

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Their recent achievements include an exhibition at the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie (USA, 2023), the Montage Award at the Meta Morph AI Award (UK), a finalist award for the Asia Digital Art Award FUKUOKA (2024), and participation in NFT London and NFT New York (2025).