Artists

Masaharu Sato

Solo Exhibitions

2021

  • SATO Mahasaru exhibition "Hands—from another perspective", ROPPONGI TSUTAYA BOOKS BOOK GALLERY, Tokyo
  • SATO Masaharu Trace—Absence of Presence/Presence of Absence, Oita Prefectural Art Museum, Japan; Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaragi, Japan [Touring exhibition]

2020

  • Rabbit, imura art gallery, Kyoto

2019

  • I touch Dream, KEN NAKAHASHI, Tokyo
  • Dr. Reaper, KEN NAKAHASHI, Tokyo

2017

  • TOKYO TRACE 2, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2016

  • Hara Documents 10 Masaharu Sato:Tokyo Trace, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

2015

  • 1×1=1, imura art gallery, Kyoto 

2014

  • Portrait of Hiroko, imura art gallery, Tokyo

2013

  • Nine Hole: Sato Masaharu Exibition, Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa
  • The Earthly Paradise Vol. 5 Sato Masaharu, Gallery αM, Tokyo

2012

  • Little Girl Coco, imura art gallery, Tokyo

2011

  • Toride Elegy, imura art gallery, Tokyo

2010

  • Bye bye come on, imura art gallery, Kyoto
  • The Solo Project - Basel, St. Jakobshalle, Basel, Swiss (from Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, Germany)

2009

  • PINK Sigh, Gallery Jin Projects, Tokyo
  • signs, Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2024

  • Selection, KEN NAKAHASHI, Tokyo

2021

  • Compassionate Grounds: Ten Years on in Tōhoku, Composite: Moving Image Agency & Media Bank, Melbourne; Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia [touring exhibition]
  • 11 Stories of Distanced Relationships: Contemporary Art from Japan, The Japan Foundation (Online Exhibition)

2020

  • Time Flows: Reflections by 5 artists, Hara Museum, Tokyo
  • Yokohama Triennale 2020 "Afterglow", Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa
  • The Doraemon Exhibition, The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata
  • Trace—presence of absence/absence of presence, KEN NAKAHASHI, Tokyo
  • DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow 2020, The National Art Center Tokyo, Tokyo

2019

  • Roppongi Crossing 2019 : Connexions, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
  • ACT (Artists Contemporary TOKAS) Vol.1 "First Lingering Mist of Spring", Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, Tokyo
  • The Doraemon Exhibition, Osaka Central Culture・Tempozan, Osaka

2018 

  • My Favorites: Toshio Hara Selects from the Permanent Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

2017

  • empty park, Gallery PARC, Kyoto
  • Gifu Land of Clear Waters Art Festival, Art Award IN THE CUBE 2017, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu
  • Realism Art in Japan, Hakodate Museum of Art (Hokkaido) Toyohashi City Museum Art & History (Aichi ) Nara Prefecture Museum of Art (Nara)
  • The Iris of a Wolf, BLOCK HOUSE, Tokyo
  • 2017-2018 The Doraemon Exhibition, Mori Arts Center Gallery (Tokyo), Takaoka Art Museum (Toyama), Matsuzakaya Museum (Aichi)

2015 

  • Fruitfulness-Contemporary Art in Toyokawa, Toyokawa City Sakuragaoka Museum, Aichi

2014

  • Duality of Existence – Post Fukushima, Friedman Benda, New York
  • Everyday Life / Off the Record, KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theater, Kanagawa
  • The Drifting Clouds, Galleria Paola Varrengla, Salerno, Italy
  • TRANS ARTS TOKYO 2014 CAVE -Kanda Projection-, ex-Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo
  • Japan Media Arts Festival, The Museum of Art, Ehime
  • FILE 2014, Fiesp Cultural Center, Sao Paolo, Brazil
  • WHO, PEOPLE BOOK STORE, Tsukuba, Ibaragi
  • NIPPON NOW: JUNGE JAPANISCHE KUNST UND DAS RHEINLAND, E.ON Galerie, Dusseldolf, Germany

2013 

  • Yamato Dynamics, Misuma Gallery, Gillman Barracks, Singapore

2012

  • not only paper, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
  • 2:46 and thereafter, Pepco Edison Place Gallery, Washington, D.C, USA
  • 15th JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL Exhibition of Award-winning Works, The National Art Center etc., Tokyo
  • Photo-Reference: Photographic Image in Contemporary Japanese Art Practices, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
  • Transmit Program #3 Mètis: Fighting Art, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto
  • Zipangu, The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata/ Takasaki City Museum of Art (Gunma), Hachinohe City Museum of Art (Aomori) , Akita Museum of Modern Art (Akita)
  • Private Woodland, Gallery Skape, Seoul, Korea

2011

  • JAPANCONGO, Carsten Hollers double-take on Jean Pigozzis collection, CNAC - Le Magasin (Centre National d’Art Contemporain), Grenoble, France / Garage Center of Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
  • from a distance, keep a distance, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
  • The 8th DANDANS - Hierher Dorthin, Goethe-Institut, Tokyo
  • Ultra Kyoto, Higashi Honganji temple, Kyoto

2010

  • Morality: film program, Witte de With Center for Contemporary, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Roppongi Hills Programs video art at Roppongi Art Night 2010, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo
  • Di-stances, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

2009

  • The 12th Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Kanagawa
  • Digital Stadium, NHK BS2, NHK Broadcasting Corporation, Tokyo 
  • City_net Asia 2009, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
  • The 6th DANDANS at No Man’s Land, former French Embassy, Tokyo

2008

  • The 4th DANDANS - The House, Nihon Homes Housing exhibit, Tokyo
  • Digital Stadium, NHK BS2, NHK Broadcasting Corporation, Tokyo
  • Art Animation Festival 2008, Research Center for Materials Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya

2006 

  • Merry go down, tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany

2004

  • Japanimprov #5: The Ramyun Soup Connection, Belgie Kunstzentrum, Hasselt, Belgium
  • Haunted Folklore, Recycleart, Brussels, Belgium

2002 

  • Internationales Boohumer Videofestival #12, Bochum, Germany

2001

  • Internationales Boohumer Videofestival #11, Bochum, Germany


Public Collections

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art

FUJIKO PRO Co., Ltd.

Pigozzi Collection

Osaka City Museum of Modern Art

Mori Art Museum

NISHIJI COLLECTION

Oita Prefectural Art Museum

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo


Awards

2011

  • Jury selection work of art division 15th JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

2009

  • Special Award at the 12th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art