MADOKA SAKAMOTO studied painting as an undergraduate at Tohoku University of Art and Design. Before and after graduating in 2002, she was awarded a notable prize for her entry in the Taisei Sato Japanese Painting Exhibition and a Grand Prize from the Garyuzakura Japanese Painting Exhibition. Following her graduate degree from Kyoto University of Art and Design in 2003, she had a solo exhibition at Gallery GEN, in Tokyo's Ginza district, and again at the Shikisai Art Museum in Harajyuku, Tokyo. In 2004 she was awarded a prize for her entry in the Seison Maeda Memorial Japanese Painting Exhibition and, in the same year, exhibited jointly with her mother, Rie, at the Exposition Exceptionelle in Paris.

Among the many innovative aspects of this promising young artist's work, influences from the work of both her mother and father are active, most notably in the manner in which she blends traditional Japanese painting materials with the application of lacquer, gold and silver leaf, for the surfaces of her paintings.