Sawaka Nagae learned drawing & painting at Parsons School of Design in New York and National Academy School of Fine Art. She holds BA in German from Dokkyo University in Japan.

Exhibitions
2008/6 New Century Artists Gallery "Music & Painting " (Chelsea, New York)
2007/6 National Academy Year-end Juried Show (National Academy Design Museum, New York)
2007/5 World Fine Art Gallery (Chelsea, New York)
2007/4 Beginnings Nursery Benefit Auction (East Village, New York)
2007/4 New Century Artists Gallery "hybridyellow" (Chelsea, New York)
2007/3 Jimmy's No 43 Gallery "Rhythmics" (East Village, New York)
2007/3 The Educational Alliance Benefit Auction at 14th Street Y (East Village, New York)
2007/3 World Fine Art Gallery "From Sonata Pathetique " (Chelsea, New York)
2006/12 New Century Artists Gallery "The Nutcracker 2007 " (Chelsea, New York)
2006/12 Pepper's Gallery "Corners" for xmas show (Ginza, Tokyo)
2006/11 Artist Space "1000 drawings" (SOHO, New York)
2006/10 New Century Artists Gallery "Inner Perceptions III" (Chelsea, New York)
2006/7 New Century Artists Gallery "Inner Perceptions II" (Chelsea, New York)
2006/6 National Academy Year-end Juried Show (National Academy Design Museum, New York)
2005/4 Pepper's Gallery “Message from Body VI” (Ginza, Tokyo)
2005/2 National Academy Selected Works at Cork Gallery (Lincoln Center, New York)

Prize
2006 National Academy Portrait Category Second Prize

Curation and organization
2008/6 New Century Artists Gallery (Chelsea, New York)
2007/4 New Century Artists Gallery "hybridyellow" (Chelsea, New York)