On 10 March 2021, Jillian Steinhauer wrote in the New York Times listing the Shinichi Sawada solo show at Venus over Manhattan as one of three shows to check out… “They evoke other things while being unlike anything else.”

On 25 February 2021 Courtney Coffman wrote in New York Times T Magazine about the Shinichi Sawada exhibition at Venus over Manhattan being one of five things they were recommending, “a wildly imaginative bestiary that transports its viewer to a different realm.”