Tokihiro SATO solo exhibition
" Tree "
November 27 (Fri.) − December 22 (Tue.), 2009
Open 10:30 − 18:30 (Saturday 10:30 − 17:30)
Closed Sunday, Monday and national holidays

Tokihiro SATO

1957
Born in Yamagata Prefecture

1981 - 83
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (BFA in sculpture in '81, 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 National University of Fine Arts and Music


〈Selected Solo-Exhibitions〉

1998
"Tokihiro Sato" Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York
"Photo - Respiration" Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Osaka

1999
"Photos - Respirations Tokihiro Sato" Gallery GAN, Tokyo
"Photo - Respiration", Tokihiro Sato's view," Sakata City Museum of Art, Yamagata

2000
"Photo - Respiration" Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York

2001
"Tokihiro Sato Projects," Gallery GAN, Tokyo

2002
"Magical Camera Tokihiro Sato + Wandering Camera," Hamada Children's Museum of Art

2003
"Photo - Respiration" Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York
"Tokihiro Sato:Photo - Respiration" The Cleveland Museum of Art

2004
"Camera Obscura Project" YCAM,Yamaguch
"Tokihiro Sato" Museum of Modern Art Saitama

2005
"pin - holes" Gallery GAN, Tokyo
"Tokihiro Sato: Photographic Light Panels" HAINES GALLERY, San Francisco
"Photo - Respiration：Tokihiro Sato Photographic" The Art Institute of Chicago
"Gleaning Light" Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York

2006
"Tokihiro Sato - Contemporary Japanese Photography" Tai Gallery, Santa Fe

2007
"Gleanin Light" Gallery RAKU, Kyoto
"Tokihiro Sato : Photographic Light Panels" HAINES GALLERY, San Francisco
"Tokihiro Sato" "LIPF" The 2007 Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou China

2008
"Tokihiro Sato" Fukushima city museum of photography

2009
"Magic Lantern" in connection with "Candle Night" Spica Art Gallery, Tokyo
"Photo - Respiration：Tokihiro Sato" 1839 Contemporary Gallery, Taipei
"Photo - Respiration：Tokihiro Sato" Dandeli Art Space, Beijing

〈Group Exhibitions and Awards〉

1990
The 18th International Art Exhibition Japan, Second Award

1991
Museum of Modern Art Saitama Award, and Iwaki City Museum Award, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and Kyoto City Museum
"The 6th Higashikawa International Photography Festival," Higashikawa, Hokkaido; New Artist Award of the 6th Higashikawa Award

1991
"Simultaneita" Museo di Roma Palazzo Braschi, Rome
"Make - Believe" The Photographers Gallery, London

1992
"Art Scope '93" Mercedes-Benz, Japan ; Grand Prix Award
"The 1st Asi-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art" Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

1994
"Liquid Crystal Futures" the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, and toured in Europe

1995
"Photography and Beyond in Japan" Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico, and toured the United States and Canada

1996
"Gazing into the Light-Tokihiro Sato + Shigenobu Yoshida" Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima

1997
The 6th Havana Biennale, Cuba

1998
Japan-Brazil International Tour Exhibition 98/99 toured Rio de Janeiro and five other cities in Brazil

1999
The 9th Bangladesh Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh, Honorable Mention Award
"Breathing Landscapes" Museum of Modern Art, Saitama

2000
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2000, Niigata

2001
"LUMINOUS" Bellevue Art Museum, Seattle
"Techno-Landscape" NTT Inter Communication Center, Tokyo

2002
Contemporary Art Exhibition in Oita 2002 "Cyclical Art Site" at different places in Oita City
"Regarding Landscape" Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto and the Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal

2003
"The History of Japanese Photography" The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Cleveland Museum of Art Ohio US

2004
"Sight seeing Bas Camera Project" Akita

2005
"Sight seeing Bas Camera Project" Ginza, Tokyo
"Framing Exposure:Process and Politics" Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, US
"The Art of Breathing in the world" Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba

2006
"The 4th Art Program Ome 2006", Tokyo
"art@tsuchizawa 2006", Iwate
"epSITE retrospective 1998-2006" Gallery epSITE, Tokyo

2007
"Plastic time Contemporary Art Exhibition" with ZHEN Duanxiang NI Keyun JING ART GALLERY, Shanghai
"The Photograph : What You See & What You Don't." The Gallery of Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
"Toride Art Project 2007" Ibaraki-City, Ibaraki
"Japan Caught by Camera" Shanghai Art Museum
"Art Miami 2007" leslie Tonkonow space, Hains Gallery space

2008
"Art Chicago2008" leslie Tonkonow space Hains Gallery space
"Intertextuality of Light" East Asia Contemporary Shanghai
"Summer Camp for sculpture" Museum of Art Mercian Karuizawa Nagano
"Ogaki Biennial" Ogaki Gifu

2009
"The Intersection of Paintings and Photographs" Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Sapporo, Hiroshima Museum of Art, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagoya City Art Museum



〈Public Collections〉

Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima / Museum of Modern Art, Saitama / Chiba City Museum of Art / Hara Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo Fuji Art Museum / Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography / Yamagata Museum of Art / Yubari Art Museum, Hokkaido / Higashikawa Cultural Gallery, Hokkaido / The Japan Foundation / Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane / Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art / Utsunomiya Museum of Art / The Museum of Contemporary Art / The Art institute of Chicago / Middlebury College Museum of Art / Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art / Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo / The Cleveland Museum of Art / The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / Guggenheim Museum, NewYork