Midori Sato was born in 1984 in Aichi Prefecture. She graduated from Oil Painting Course, School of Art, Nagoya University of Arts in 2008, and studied at Ecole nationale des beaux arts de Dijion, France as an exchange student. She received M.F.A from Graduate School of Tokyo Zokei University in 2010. She studied in Paris as a recipient of the POLA Art Foundation award for overseas research in 2017.
A closet packed full of colorful dresses, an array of high-heeled shoes on shelves, vividly colored flowers: Midori Sato shows us things that every one yearns to see. Yet if we turn our attention to the details of her work, bold brushstrokes and an intentionally uneven paint coating tinge her subject matter with the contours of abstraction. This abstraction demonstrates the force of the power that draws the viewer into the picture plane.
Her major solo exhibitions include “Dress of Flora” (Tomio Koyama Gallery Tennoz, Tokyo, 2024), “Diaphanous petals” (The Pola Art Museum, Atrium Gallery, Kanagawa, 2019), “Bouquet” (8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2019), “Orange Glow” (Green Art Flowers Gallery, Paris, France, 2018) and “Reflections” (Roppongi Hills A/D Gallery, Tokyo, 2017). She participated in group exhibitions such as “Aichi Triennale 2016 rainbow caravan” (Aichi, 2016) and “Embracing for Painting” (Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, 2015). In 2013, she received the Ohara Museum of Art Prize at “VOCA 2013″(The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo) and the artwork was housed in the Museum.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 | “Blooming Flower Dress” ISETAN SALONE, Tokyo, Japan “Dress of Flora” Tomio Koyama Gallery Tennoz, Tokyo, Japan “Flower Gazing” SCÈNE, Tokyo, Japan |
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2023 | “FLOW” Gana Art Bogwang, Seoul, Korea "Rose Room" MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Mitsukoshi Department Store 6F, Nihombashi, Tokyo, Japan Yurakucho Window Gallery 2023 “Baccarat × Midori Sato/Ruriko Murayama” Baccarat Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan |
2022 | “MIDORI SATO" ZIP739, Hannam-dong, Korea “NEWoMan ART wall Vol.25” NEWoMan ART wall, Tokyo, Japan “Floating Drapery” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2021 | “Floréal” Nihonbashi Takashimaya S.C Art Gallery X, Tokyo, Japan [traveled to Takashimaya Osaka, Gallery NEXT, Osaka, Japan] |
2019 | “Diaphanous petals” The Pola Art Museum, Atrium Gallery, Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan “Bouquets” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Glimmer of night” SCÈNE, Tokyo, Japan |
2018 | “Orange glow” Green Art Flowers Gallery, Paris, France |
2017 | “Reflections” Roppongi Hills A/D Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2016 | “Eternal Moment” SCÈNE, Tokyo, Japan “Secret Garden” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2015 | “Spring Closets” ISETAN ART EXHIBITION, Tokyo, Japan |
2014 | “Fascinated Times” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “A June House” Dai-ichi Life Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2013 | Isetan Live Painting, Isetan Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan |
2012 | “Project N 48 SATO Midori” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery Corridor, Tokyo, Japan “My Precious Room” TKG Editions Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan |
2011 | “TWS Emerging Plus: Pont Marie” Tokyo Wonder Site Art Cafe 'Kurage', Tokyo, Japan |
2010 | “TWS Emerging 140: Blissful moments” Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo, Japan |
Group Exhibitions
2024 | “Hare no Hini” SCÈNE, Tokyo, Japan “a tiny collection on Giganti's shoulders” Re:Public, Nagano, Japan “Yurakucho Window Gallery 2024” Paraboot Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan “Revealed – 3 Private Collection” Yokohama Civic Gallery Azamino, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan |
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2023 | “Bon appétit!” SCÈNE, Tokyo, Japan “MtK satellite Vol.3” MtK Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan “In flower enthusiasts” Art Gallery, Isetan Shinjuku Store Main Building 6F, Tokyo, Japan “L’art de vivre” SCÈNE, Tokyo, Japan “6 Artists selected by Tomio Koyama Gallery” Hankyu Men's Osaka 1st Floor Stage & 3rd Floor Contemporary Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan "From Bonnard to Tillmans and Contemporary Artists: Interior Visions" Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan |
2022 | "Ten-ninka" B-Building 8F Art Gallery & Alternative Space, Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan |
2021 | Yuichiro Moriyama & Midori Sato Exhibition “Scentful” ISETAN SALONE ART WALL, Tokyo, Japan |
2020 | “JR EAST meets ART @ Takanawa Gateway Fest” JR Takanawa Gateway Station, Tokyo, Japan |
2019 | “VOCA!” Dai-ichi Life Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Tomio Koyama Gallery: Works from the Gallery Artists and the Collection 4” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2018 | “Tomio Koyama Gallery: Works from the Gallery Artists and the Collection 3” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2017 | “Tomio Koyama Gallery: Works from the Gallery Artists and the Collection 2” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2016 | “ZOKEI NEXT 50” 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan “Aichi Triennale 2016 rainbow caravan” Nagoya/ Okazaki, Aichi, Japan Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan |
2015 | “Works from the Gallery Artists and the Collection” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Sky Over l” Art Lab Aichi Otsubashi, Chojamachi, Aichi, Japan “Embracing for Painting” Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2014 | “Artists from a.a.t.m. 2007-2013” ART AWARD TOKYO MARUNOUCHI 2014 Special Exhibition, Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Ohara Contemporary at Musabi” Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo, Japan “Ginza Mitsukoshi x Tomio Koyama Gallery, Art Sellection” Gallery, Ginza Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, Japan |
2013 | “Tokyo Painting 2” Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan “VOCA 2013” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan “Ohara Contemporary” Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan “Ginza Mitsukoshi × Tomio Koyama Gallery Art Selection” Ginza Mitsukoshi 8th Floor Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Japan Art Exhibition” Isetan Singapore, Singapore “Cho-Kyoto 2013, Contemporary Art at Today’s Machiya in Kyoto” Model House Exhibition Place KYOMO, Kyoto, Japan |
2012 | “Hong Kong + Japan crossing partnership in creativity” Hong Kong Desiners Week, Hong Kong “天天向上―Tian Tian Xiang Shang” Marunouchi Marucube, Tokyo, Japan “Blindsight” MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2010 | “Art Award Tokyo 2010” Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Unique Commons” Nagoya University of Art A&D center, Aichi, Japan “REV Open studio” REV, Kanagawa, Japan |
2009 | “Tokyo Wonder Wall 2009” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan “M-polyphony ‘09” Zokei Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2008 | “Selected Exhibition, Nagoya University of Art Selection” Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo, Japan “Atelier” Nagoya Shisei Shiryokan, Aichi, Japan “Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2008” Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Montblanc Young Artist Patronage in Japan” Montblanc Boutique Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan “Post Theater” Ome Art Program 2008, Tokyo, Japan |
2007 | “Exchanged” Nagoya University of Arts X ridge Gallery, Aichi, Japan |
Public Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Montblanc Japan
Ohara Museum of Art
Shiseido
Awards
2013 “VOCA 2013” Judge’s prize of Ohara Museum of Art
2010 “Art Award Tokyo 2010” judge’s prize of Tomio Koyama
“Dress of Flora”
“Floating Drapery”
Group Exhibition “Tomio Koyama Gallery: Works from the Gallery Artists and the Collection 4”
“Bouquets”
“Tomio Koyama Gallery: Works from the Gallery Artists and the Collection3”
Group Exhibition “Tomio Koyama Gallery: Works from the Gallery Artists and the Collection 2”
“Secret Garden”
“Tomio Koyama Gallery: Works from the Gallery Artists and the Collection”
“Fascinated Times”
Group Exhibition “Hare no Hini” SCÈNE, Tokyo, Japan
Solo Exhibition “Blooming Flower Dress” ISETAN SALONE, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition “a tiny collection on Giganti’s shoulders” Re:Public, Nagano, Japan
Solo Exhibition “Flower Gazing” SCÈNE, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition “Revealed – 3 Private Collection” Yokohama Civic Gallery Azamino, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
“Yurakucho Window Gallery 2024” Paraboot Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan
Solo Exhibition “FLOW” Gana Art Bogwang, Seoul, Korea
Group Exhibition “Bon appétit!” SCÈNE, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition “MtK satellite Vol.3” MtK Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan
Group Exhibition “In flower enthusiasts” Art Gallery, Isetan Shinjuku Store Main Building 6F, Tokyo, Japan
Solo Exhibition “Rose Room” MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Mitsukoshi Department Store 6F, Nihombashi, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition “L’art de vivre” SCÈNE, Tokyo, Japan
Yurakucho Window Gallery 2023 “Baccarat × Midori Sato/Ruriko Murayama” Baccarat Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition “6 Artists selected by Tomio Koyama Gallery” Hankyu Men’s Osaka 1st Floor Stage & 3rd Floor Contemporary Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Group Exhibition “From Bonnard to Tillmans and Contemporary Artists: Interior Visions” Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan
Solo Exhibition “MIDORI SATO” ZIP739, Hannam-dong, Korea
Special Exhibition “NEWoMan ART wall Vol.25” NEWoMan ART wall, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition “Ten-ninka” B-Building 8F Art Gallery & Alternative Space, Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition “Over the Rainbow” YIRI ARTS, Taipei, Taiwan
Solo Exhibition “Floréal” Takashimaya Osaka, Gallery NEXT, Osaka, Japan
Solo Exhibition “Floréal” Nihonbashi Takashimaya S.C Art Gallery X, Tokyo, Japan
Yuichiro Moriyama & Midori Sato Exhibition “Scentful” ISETAN SALONE ART WALL, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition “JREAST Meet Art @ Takanawa Gateway Fest” JR Takanawa Gateway Station, Tokyo, Japan
Solo Exhibition “Diaphanous petals” The Pola Art Museum, Atrium Gallery, Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan
Group Exhibition “CONNECT VOCA!” Dai-ichi Life Gallery, Tokyo
Solo Exhibition “Glimmer of night” SCÈNE, Tokyo
Solo Exhibition “Orange glow” Green Art Flowers Gallery, Paris
Solo Exhibition “Reflections” A/D Gallery, Tokyo
Solo Exhibition “Eternal Moment” SCÉNE, Tokyo
Group Exhibition “ZOKEI NEXT50”
Group Exhibition “Aichi Triennale 2016”
Group Exhibition, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama
Midori Sato / SHISEIDO THE GINZA
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8/TV/101 Interview with Midori Sato
CREDIT
Executive Creative Director : Kenmei Nagaoka (D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT)
Producer : Mitsuko Matsuzoe (D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT)
Director: Masaya Suzuki
Camera : Hirotatsu Koarai
Music : Yuichi Nagao
January 31 - February 18, 2019
https://tomiokoyamagallery.com/en/exhibitions/sato-2018/