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

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

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