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Katsu Sawada
Opening Reception
Saturday, September 12 6-9PM
SHROOMZ
a solo exhibition by
KATSU SAWADA
September 12 – October 17, 2026
Demo Art & Books is honored to present SHROOMZ, the first Sacramento solo exhibition by new media artist, Katsu Sawada (b. 1982, Honolulu, HI). The exhibition considers psychedelia, artificial intelligence, and apocalyptic phenomena as overlapping conditions, through which contemporary reality can be processed and understood. Altered states–chemical, technological, and cultural–become ways of thinking about transformation at a moment when the boundaries between the organic and synthetic; intelligence and automation; and creation and destruction feel increasingly unstable.
In presenting Katsu Sawada’s work in Sacramento, the capital of California and a city shaped by its proximity to the institutions and structures of state power, DEMO offers a meaningful point of entry into Sawada’s practice, which is rooted in the rebellious spirit of graffiti and its resistance to systems of control.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
KATSU SAWADA (b. 1982, Honolulu, HI) is a Japanese-American new media artist who graduated from Parsons and works in San Francisco. He has had a major impact in the graffiti and hacker communities over the past 2 decades, blending technology with artistic practice and humor. Sawada has worked with The Hole, Deitch Projects, and Salon 94, and his work has been featured in group exhibitions at Fondation Cartier in Paris and Eyebeam in Brooklyn, as well as in media outlets including Wired, Juxtapoz, and CNN.
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