Yuya Saito was born in Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture. After graduating from the University of Central Oklahoma, USA, he is currently based in New York (Brooklyn). Inspired by skateboarding, which he started as a child, he has set up a new visual language for the streets, “Curved Shape,” and presents his work on the “Relationship between human and the city.” In cities, people, goods, and events converge, the same scenery never repeats itself. Saito perceives the repetition of countless dramas that arise and disappear as key for fostering culture. Also, after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, my hometown was so easily wiped out by the tsunami that I learned about the vulnerability of cities. "Culture that has been fostered because of chaos, and confusion that has arisen because of chaos." Saito believes that the city that has taken on this contradiction holds the key to expressing humans as irrational and cultural creatures. In addition to the unique work of curved surfaces, by intersecting multiple projects such as public art, digital works, and collaboration works with city-related artists, Saito is trying to cut out the present of the city that crosses areas.

In the face of the perspective on life and death, humans are always aware of their limited existence. Looking at nature within this perception, Yuya Saito wanted to express the process of living life as a creature using nature as a medium in his artwork. When reflecting on the journey of life through nature, he aimed to capture the resemblance between nature's desire to survive, endure, and integrate amidst change and resistance, and our own lives. Just as numerous unexpected encounters and events happen in life, he introduced conscious and unconscious dots and lines into my work, creating a process where the generated spots collide, overlap, and achieve balance, revealing landscapes and nature. The images of these landscapes are visualized through the association of memories, whether they are scenes observed in reality or landscapes that exist in dreams or the inner self.

Space776 exhibits early to mid-career artists who work in a variety of mediums ranging from live multimedia performance art to traditional oil painting. The gallery accommodates artists from around the globe, taking their works to local and international art fairs such as Volta New York, Volta Basel, Art Miami, Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, and Art Busan. 
Space776 was founded in Bushwick, Brooklyn in 2013. In 2020, the gallery relocated to its current residence at 37-39 Clinton Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Space776 also opened a location in Seoul, South Korea in 2020 in accordance with the gallery’s mission to promote the international exchange between local New York artists and the Korean artistic sphere. 

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