SATO Tokihiro
Brief Personal History


SATO Tokihiro

Japanese Artist, Photographer
Professor, Department of Inter Media Art, Tokyo University of the Arts

1957        Born in Yamagata Prefecture
1981-83  Tokyo University of The Arts (BFA in sculpture in '81, and MFA in '83)
1986-98  Center Manager, Photography Center, Department of Fine Arts,
                 Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1993-94  The Cultural Agency Overseas Researcher Grant, stayed in London
1999-       Associate professor, Department of Inter Media Art, Tokyo University of the Arts
2010-       Professor, Department of Inter Media Art, Tokyo University of the Arts
<ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS>
2021

Tokihiro Sato, Reflections, Micheko Gallery,Munich, Germany

2019

Tokihiro Sato, Fujifilm Square, Tokyo, Japan
Tokihiro Sato, Piet Hein Eek Art Gallery, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2017

Tokihiro Sato, Micheko Gallery, Munich, Germany

2015

Tokihiro Sato, Piet Hein Eek Art Gallery, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Sato Tokihiro, Tsuruoka Art Forum Gallery, Tsuruoka, Japan

2014

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan

2010

Presence or Absence: The Photographs of Tokihiro Sato, Frist Center for the VisualArts, Nashville, Tennessee
Trees, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Trees, Haines Gallery, San Francisco

2008

Fukushima City Museum of Photography, Japan

2007

Haines Gallery, San Francisco, Gallery Raku, Kyoto, Japan

2006

Tai Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2005

Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
The Art Institute of Chicago
Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Gallery Gan, Tokyo

2004

The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Camera Obscura Project, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Japan

2003

Cleveland Museum of Art Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2002

Hamada Children’s Museum of Art, Japan

2001

Gallery Gan, Tokyo

2000

Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

1999

he Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan (two–person show)
Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh (two–person show)
Sakata City Museum of Art, Yamagata, Japan
Gallery Gan, Tokyo

1998

Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

1997

Gallery Gan, Tokyo

1996

Gallery Gan, Tokyo
Gallery Natsuka, Tokyo

1995

Gallery Lunami, Tokyo
Gallery Nikko, Tokyo

1993

Gallery Surge, Tokyo
Jacobins Museum of Fine Art, Agen, France
Spiral Garden, Tokyo

1992

Gallery Hosomi, Tokyo
Gallery Moris, Tokyo
Gallery Valentine, Nagano
Gallery Temporary Space #022, Sapporo

1991

Gallery Lunami, Tokyo
Gallery Surge, Tokyo
E’Space, Tokyo

1989

Gallery Lunami, Tokyo

1988

Gallery Lunami, Tokyo

1987

Gallery Maki, Tokyo

1986

Gallery Parergon II, Tokyo

1984

Gallery Tamura, Tokyo

1983

Gallery Lunami, Tokyo

1982

Gallery Tokiwa, Tokyo
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo G Art Gallery, Tokyo

<GROUP EXHIBITIONS>
2020

Time Flows: Reflections by 5Artists, Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2017

Mercedes-Benz ART SCOPE, Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The Summer show, FONDAZIONE FOTOGRAFIA MODENA, Italy
Into the Woods: Trees in Photography Victoria & Albert Museum,London, UK

2016

Shared Space: A New Era, Photographs from the Bank of America Collection, McColl Center, Charlotte, NC
Lux: The Radiant Sea, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York

2015

The Photograph; What You See & What You Don’t 2, Museum at Tokyo University of Fine Art Ueno, Tokyo, Japan
Sight-Seeing ,Combaz7 Switzerland
Dislocation/Urban Experience: Contemporary Photographs from East Asia, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Exhibition of the 31st Higashikawa Award Winners, Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan
Time Present – Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Goethe’s Chamber, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Time Present – Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai

2014

Time Present – Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Singapore Art Museum

2013

The Aesthetics of Photography – Five Elements, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Still Action! 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VirginiaTamamono: From the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama

2012

Recent Acquisitions: Photography, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida

2008

Intertextuality of Light, East Asia Contemporary, Shanghai
Summer Camp for Sculpture, Museum of Art Mercian Karuizawa Nagano, Japan
Ogaki Biennial, Ogaki Gifu, Japan

2007

Plastic Time Contemporary Art Exhibition, Jing Art Gallery, Shanghai
Japan Caught by Camera, Shanghai Art Museum
Landscape & Memory II, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
The Photograph; What You See & What You Don’t, Museum at Tokyo University of Fine Art, Ueno, Tokyo, Japan
Toride Art Project, Toride City Ibaraki
Out of Body, Deutsche Bank Art, Level B Gallery, New York

2006

epSITE Retrospective 1998–2006, Epson Imaging Gallery Epsite, Tokyo, Japan
Blind Date Seligenstadt: New Acquisitions to the Deutsche Bank Collection, Art Forum, Seligenstadt, Germany

2005

Framing Exposure: Process and Politics, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Sightseeing Bus Camera Project, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
The Art of Breathing in the World: Art and Respiration, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art and Sakura City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Pairs, Groups, and Grids, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2004

Temporalscape, Haines Gallery, San Francisco

2003

The Imaginary City “Metamorphosis” Hiroshima, Hiroshima City University
The History of Japanese Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
The History of Japanese Photography, The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA

2002

Staging Reality, Photography from the West Collection, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia
Regarding Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
The Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal
Cyclical Art Site – Contemporary Art Exhibition in Oita 2002, Oita Art Museum, Oita, Japan

2001

Ellipsis, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Luminous, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
Techno-Landscape, NTT Inter Communication Center, Tokyo
VIBRATION: Expressive Power of Sculpture, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle

2000

City of Lights: Art Walk, Comité Colbert, New York
Group show, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
On Site: Contemporary Photography of Place, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2000, Niigata, Japan

1999

Full Exposure, The New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey
Blind Spot 12, Robert Mann Gallery, New York
The Big Picture: Large Format Photography, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont
Breathing Landscapes,Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
The 9th Bangladesh Asian Art Biennial, Bangladesh

1998

Attack/Damage, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Japan-Brazil International Tour Exhibition 98/99, toured Rio de Janeiro and five cities in Brazil
Catherine Opie, Richard Rothman and Tokihiro Sato, Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York

1997

「Photography and Beyond in Japan」, the Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu
The 6th Havana Biennial, Cuba
Ways of (Re)Production, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma

1996

「Photography and Beyond in Japan」 Los Angeles County Museum of Art
「Photography and Beyond in Japan」 the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
「Photography and Beyond in Japan」 Denver Art Museum
「Liquid Crystal Futures, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst」, Berlin
「Liquid Crystal Futures, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst」, Göteborg Kunsthall, Sweden
「Liquid Crystal Futures, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst」, Müscarnok Palace of Exhibitions, Budapest
Requiem – Koji Enokura and 33 Artists, Saito Memorial Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama, Japan
Twelve Environments – Japan-Netherlands Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition, Former Schoolhouse of Akasaka Elementary School, Tokyo
Playback and Memory, Dojunkai-Daikanyama Apartment, Tokyo
Gazing into the Light – Tokihiro Sato + Shigenobu Yoshida, Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan

1995

「Photography and Beyond in Japan」 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Intern acional Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City;
「Photography and Beyond in Japan」 Vancouver Art Gallery
After Hiroshima – Message from Contemporary Art, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Haizuka Earth Works Project, Hiroshima, Japan
NowHere, Het Aporo House, Holland
Nostalgia for Future – Contemporary Art of Yamagata, Yamagata Museum of Art
Open – Air Exhibition – Passage of the Wind, Omiya
Liquid Crystal Futures, Spiral Garden, Tokyo

1994

「Photography and Beyond in Japan」, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
「Liquid Crystal Futures, The Fruitmarket Gallery」, Edinburgh, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Visualization in the End of the Twentieth Century, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Time/Art ‘Time’ is Expressed in the 20th Century Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan

1993

00 Collaboration, Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo
Art Scope ’93, Mercedes-Benz, Japan
1st Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

1992

1st Transart Annual Painting/Crossing, Bellini Hill Yokohama Galleria, Yokohama, Japan
Okabe e Sato a Roma 1991, Gallery Lunami, Tokyo
Japanese Contemporary Photographs, Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, South Korea

1991

The Echoes Lights, Gallery Ai, Tokyo
Compound of the Maniera, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo
Simultaneita, Museo di Roma Palazzo Braschi, Rome
Photographic Narration II, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo
Line in Contemporary Art - The Destination of Eyes and Hands, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Okabe e Sato a Roma 1991 Gallery Temporary Space #012, Sapporo, Japan
The 10th Parallelism in Art Exhibition, Ohara Center, Tokyo
Make-Believe, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
New Space of Photography, Wroclaw, Poland
20 Promising Photographers Vol. 2, Parco Gallery, Tokyo
Australia x Japan Joint Exhibition, Gallery Lunami, Tokyo
Hiroshi Yamazaki x Tokihiro Sato Two Men Exhibition, Gallery Hosomi, Tokyo

1990

The 18th International Art Exhibition Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
International Photograph Festival in Higashikawa, Higashikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Japanese Contemporary Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Pavillon des Arts, Paris
Pusan Biennial 5th, Pusan, South Korea
The Imprinted Ideas, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Utsunomiya, Japan

1989

The Echoes Lights, Gallery Ai, Tokyo
Japan Professional Photographers Society Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Lunami Selection ‘89, Gallery Lunami, Tokyo
Summer Festival ‘89 in Hakushu, (‘90, ‘91, ‘92), Yamanashi, Japan
Window of Marginal Arts, Entetsu Department Store, Hamamatsu, Japan
Because, Gallery Surge, Tokyo
The 151st Year of Photography, Heineken Village, Tokyo

1988

Photographic Narration, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo
15 Contemporary Photographic Expressions, Tama Art University, Tokyo

1981

The 15th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

<PUBLIC COLLECTIONS>

  • Photography Foundation Modena
  • Victoria & Albert Museum, London
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
  • The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  • The Capital Group, Los Angeles
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
  • The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art
  • Pfizer, Inc., New York
  • Goldman Sachs & Co., New York
  • Goldman Sachs & Co., Tokyo
  • The Rand Corporation
  • Citibank, New York
  • The La Salle Bank, Chicago
  • Microsoft Corporation
  • Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo
  • Chiba City Art Museum, Chiba, Japan
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
  • Japan Energy Corporation
  • Fuji Xerox Corporation
  • Yamagata Museum of Art
  • Bering Securities, Ltd.
  • Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
  • Japan Foundation, Tokyo
  • DaimlerChrysler
  • Press Kit Corporation, Tokyo
  • Yubari Art Museum
  • Itabashi Art Museum
  • Deutsche Real Estate Consulting
  • Deutsche Bank
  • The Cleveland Clinic
  • BNY Mellon Corporation
  • Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
  • Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
  • The Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont
  • Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village,
    Ohio
  • Higashikawa Cultural Gallery, Hokkaido,
    Japan
  • Iwaki Municipal Art Museum, Fukushima,
    Japan
  • The School of Business, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Merrill Lynch,
    New York